Bumblebee (2018) Every adventure has a beginning For almost a decade, I’ve found myself fighting a losing battle trying to defend Michael Bay’s loud, brazen screen-smashing Transformers series, which I actually kinda dig… Continue reading
Boy Erased (2018) Based on the unforgettable true story. There was a steady build-up of promotion around Boy Erased. With its core exploration of religion versus sexuality and an air of self-importance about… Continue reading
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) What makes you different is what makes you Spider-Man. As many comic book pontificators have noted over the years, one of the key appeals of Marvel’s Spider-Man is… Continue reading
The Grinch (2018) It’s never too early to be annoyed by Christmas. The ninth fully animated 3D feature from Illumination Entertainment/ Universal Pictures, and their third Dr. Seuss adaptation — following 2008’s excellent… Continue reading
An Evening with Beverly Luff Linn (2018) A love triangle with too many sides. An Evening with Beverly Luff Linn is what you would get if you fed an AI algorithm 15,000 slightly… Continue reading
Thoroughbreds (2017) Good Breeding Gone Bad Coming across like a stagier, more self-serious version of Heathers (1988) shaded with a dash of Bret Easton Ellis, Thoroughbreds, the debut feature from writer and director… Continue reading
Mile 22 (2018) Option 1: Diplomacy. Option 2: Military. Meet Option 3 After having collaborated in the Afghanistan war drama Lone Survivor (2013), the historical oil-rig disaster Deepwater Horizon (2016), and the excellent… Continue reading
Cam (2018) Notions of sexuality, identity, community and connection all get put under the microscope in the new (mildly, it must be said) erotic thriller Cam, which recently debuted on Netflix and played… Continue reading
The Nutcracker and the Four Realms (2018) Let the mystery unfold. Throughout the ages there have been countless interpretations of E.T.A. Hoffmann’s 1816 short story The Nutcracker and the Mouse King. From the… Continue reading
Thugs of Hindostan (2018) India’s answer to Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean, Thugs of Hindostan is a Hindi-language swashbuckling pantomime that boasts all the bells and whistles of the Johnny Depp-starring pentalogy —… Continue reading
