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
Creed II (2018) A few years back, when Creed (2015) dropped, many, including myself, were pleasantly surprised by just how well writer-director Ryan Coogler handled the Rocky Balboa spin-off, making it feel relevant… 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
Widows (2018) Left with nothing. Capable of anything. It’s always interesting when a ‘prestige’ director tackles ‘pulp’ material. It can go either way. Too often you can tell that the A-lister in question… Continue reading
Hunter Killer (2018) Start a Battle to Stop a War Newly promoted Commander Joe Glass (Gerard Butler) is promptly called in to helm a USS Arkansas submarine, to investigate the disappearance of the… Continue reading
The Night Comes for Us (2018) After one massacre too many, Triad enforcer Ito (Joe Taslim) guns down his fellow henchmen and hightails it for Jakarta with the only survivor, a young girl… Continue reading
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018) Who will change the future? I shouldn’t have been so befuddled while watching The Crimes of Grindelwald, the tenth film in J.K. Rowling’s Wizarding World series,… Continue reading
Night School (2018) Kevin Hart’s latest comedy vehicle sees him star as Teddy Walker, a high school drop out whose job as a barbecue salesman literally blows up in his face, leaving him… Continue reading
