Film Review: The Mummy (2017)
Starring Tom Cruise and directed by Alex Kurtzman (director of Star Trek and The Amazing Spider-Man 2), The Mummy is part of the “Dark…
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Film Review: Graduation (2016)
Romanian director Cristian Mungiu has only made five feature films, but in that time he’s won nearly every major award at Cannes, conquered his…
Film Review: Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017)
There must be a “franchise blockbuster checklist” that gets ticked off whenever a new movie rolls off the big studio production line. Disney’s latest…
Film Review: Snatched (2017)
Just in time for Mother’s Day comes the mother-daughter kidnapping caper, Snatched. Following on from Trainwreck comes Amy Schumer’s second starring feature, although this…
Film Review: The Zookeeper’s Wife (2017)
As much as it is remembered for its brutality, World War II is also the source of countless acts of heroism large and small,…
Film Review: Get Out (2017)
Name a great director and you’re pretty much guaranteed that they’ve made a horror movie. Either the genre offered them their start, or it…
Film Review: Table 19 (2017)
If you ever find yourself watching Table 19 on Netflix or a similar streaming service, you may be inclined to give up twenty minutes…
Film Review: Berlin Syndrome (2017)
The recent remake of Beauty and the Beast means Stockholm syndrome is all the rage again. But Disney’s live action film isn’t the only…
Article: Living in the Material World? An Analysis of Personal Shopper
Olivier Assayas’ psychological thriller Personal Shopper is many things – ‘easy to understand’ is not one of them. It’s a ghost story, a murder…
Film Review: Colossal (2016)
Colossal is the third feature film from writer-director Nacho Vigalondo, and is part comedy, part thriller, part fantasy. Gloria (Anne Hathaway) is broke, jobless and…