Under the Silver Lake (2018)
Under the Silver Lake (2018) What are they hiding? Following on from his acclaimed allegorical horror film It Follows (2014), writer and director David Robert Mitchell leaves it all out on the field… Continue reading
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Toy Story 4 (2019)
Toy Story 4 (2019) On The Road Of Life, There Are Old Friends, New Friends, And Stories That Change You. Almost a decade after Toy Story 3 (2010) put a pretty definitive cap… Continue reading
Men in Black: International (2019)
Men in Black: International (2019) The Universe is Expanding Back when movie stars actually mattered and comic book films weren’t all the rage, the mischievous sci-fi Men in Black (1997) made Will Smith… Continue reading
X-Men: Dark Phoenix (2019)
X-Men: Dark Phoenix (2019) A Phoenix will rise. The X-Men will fall. And fall hard, they have. In this tragic swansong to Fox’s X-Men saga that began in 2000, and helped cultivate newfound… Continue reading
Tolkien (2019)
Tolkien (2019) A Life of Love, Courage, and Fellowship The mythographer of Middle Earth is himself mythologized in this handsome, romantic biographical drama. Although using the muddy and bloody trenches of World War… Continue reading
The Secret Life of Pets 2 (2019)
The Secret Life of Pets 2 (2019) They still have their secrets. Three years ago, Illumination Entertainment, the team behind Despicable Me (2010) and its spinoff Minions (2015), coughed out a fresh fur… Continue reading
In Time (2011)
In Time (2011) Live forever or die trying. What a difference a few years make. Is it the world that’s changed, or is it me? Certainly, In Time, Andrew Niccol’s goofy, sincere, sci-fi… Continue reading
Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019)
Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019) One King To Rule Them All If there’s one thing that makes Godzilla: King of the Monsters worth anyone’s time, it’s the fact that we get to… Continue reading
The Perfection (2018)
The Perfection (2018) It’s Time to Face the Music Exploring territory previously mapped by the likes of Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan (a much better film) and Dan Gilroy’s Velvet Buzzsaw (a marginally worse… Continue reading
Rocketman (2019)
Rocketman (2019) Based on a True Fantasy. It’s easy to draw comparisons between the Elton John biopic, Rocketman (titled after his 1972 smash), and last year’s foot-stomping Bohemian Rhapsody (2018), which took home… Continue reading