Reviews
Ayn Rand’s 1943 novel The Fountainhead, a paean to capitalist self-interest,...
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Hot on the heels of last year’s The Outrun (or, rather, trudging along behind...
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The Ballad Of Wallis Island begins with big-in-the-aughts folk singer Herb...
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Treasure-hunting action-adventure films are like precious relics: highly...
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Only a few years ago, when considering new projects, the Pixar and Disney teams...
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Clichéd scenes of debauchery abound in Hurry Up Tomorrow, although in fairness...
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With every Wes Anderson film, the growing concern is that the idiosyncratic...
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Let’s get the obvious joke out of the way first: no, despite being produced...
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As cinematic challenges go, keeping things interesting while shooting in a...
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Has the fuse finally been unlit? After 30 years of saving the world with...
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You don’t need ESP to know that Final Destination Bloodlines will start with...
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An updated version of Ang Lee’s 1993 movie of the same name, The Wedding...
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‘Write what you know’ goes the old adage, and Hollywood scribes have long...
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We never learn the name of Nicolas Cage’s character in The Surfer. (He is...
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Every generation gets its own Die Hard. So potent is the power of John McClane...
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Paul Feig’s A Simple Favour was a sleeper hit, blending competitive...
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Roughly 15 minutes into Until Dawn, a creepy petrol station clerk warns a group...
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If the Avengers are Marvel’s A-team, the Thunderbolts feel a little like the...
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Gerard Butler is one of those actors who exists in a category all of his own: a...
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If Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s 2001 psychological horror Pulse was about how the...
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Yes, the synopsis for The Friend sounds like a discarded Friends subplot, but...
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There’s a vitalness to Gareth Evans’ filmmaking that is yet to lose...
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Gavin O’Connor’s The Accountant (2016), written by Bill Dubuque, introduced...
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From the jaunty opening music and wry delivery of Steve Coogan’s introductory...
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We’ve seen vampires as a metaphor for sin, sex and even Mormonism. Now Ryan...
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From its pulpy title, to its retro-computerised intro with Giorgio...
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The premise of G20 is inherently silly. There’s no getting past it. It might...
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While we wait to see Homer’s Odyssey as a big-budget Christopher Nolan...
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Great ideas can strike in the strangest of circumstances. In the case of Drop,...
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