Film Review: Split (2016)
Is there a more frustrating director/screenwriter than M. Night Shyamalan? He builds up our hopes with the odd gem(The Sixth Sense), lowers our expectations…
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Film Review: The Edge of Seventeen (2016)
Teen films are often guilty pleasures. They tend to tick the boxes of every cliché, and while they often have an audience willing to…
Film Review: Ella (2016)
Not to be confused with Elle, the hard to watch rape revenge film from Paul Verhoeven which is out in cinemas at the same…
Film Review: Elle (2016)
Thank you Paul Verhoeven (Robocop, Showgirls, Hollow Man) for your eclectic and schizophrenic filmography. It appears you have done it again with Elle. This…
Film Review: Girl Asleep (2015)
Here’s one for you: what happens when you mix Wes Anderson, 1970s Australia, Napoleon Dynamite, coming-of-age drama and the Mighty Boosh? It’s impossible to…
Film Review: Bad Moms (2016)
Everyone loves to judge, and everyone loves to judge mothers. Even other mothers. It’s a jungle out there. In the schoolyard at drop off…
Film Review: Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates (2016)
Whether you enjoy the latest Kendrick/Efron vehicle will depend on your propensity to take offence to crass humour. But while it’s wrong on so…
Film Review: Everybody Wants Some!! (2016)
The year is 1980 – a gallon of petrol costs 79 cents. The Empire Strikes Back makes the greatest parental reveal in film history,…
Film Review: Mustang (2015)
One of last year’s Academy Awards Best Foreign Film nominees was Mustang, a stirring portrayal of the yearning for freedom against the constraints of…
Film Review: Now You See Me 2 (2016)
If you’re looking for the greatest deception of Now You See Me 2, you won’t find it in the plot but on the movie…