Annabelle: Creation (2017) You don’t know the real story Honestly, who’d have thought that releasing a prequel film to an offshoot origin story wound be a good idea (and a profitable move); but,… Continue reading
A Gray State (2017) It’s easy to ridicule conspiracy theorists, especially when their figureheads are people like Alex Jones, a guy who’s denied the whole Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting and the current… Continue reading
Logan Lucky (2017) See How The Other Half Steals Steven Soderbergh is definitely better at making movies than he is at calling it quits, the 54-year-old retiree returning to the director’s chair after… Continue reading
The Wall (2017) This isn’t war. It’s a game. With the contemporary blockbuster becoming more and more expensive to produce, it’s easy to see the financial appeal of the single-location (movie) structure —… Continue reading
The Big Sick (2017) An Awkward True Story. Smart, funny and genuinely sincere, The Big Sick proves that there’s still plenty to explore in the rom-com genre, this ‘sick flick’ deviating from today’s… Continue reading
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017) A universe without boundaries needs heroes without limits. In a summer of lackluster, unimaginative blockbusters Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets comes… Continue reading
A Monster Calls (2016) Stories are wild creatures. Back in 2007, a thoughtfully spooky tale, The Orphanage, put Spaniard J.A. Bayona on the cinematic map. A film about creepy ghost kids, The Orphanage… Continue reading
War for the Planet of the Apes (2017) For freedom. For family. For the planet. I wouldn’t be lying if I said that there’s more humanity in the first 20 minutes of this… Continue reading
Amagi Brilliant Park (2014) Look at the sky, it’s Magic Hour! Being the all-out anime aficionado that I am, I’ve encountered an array of weird and wonderful small-screen series; from the loopy gender… Continue reading
Dunkirk (2017) When 400,000 men couldn’t get home, home came for them. Over the past twelve months we’ve seen two major motion pictures concerning the Allied evacuation at the beaches of Dunkirk, which… Continue reading
