Hollywood has never been shy about taking on Stephen King‘s literary works, and the results have been quite a mixed bag. From rousing highs such as The Shawshank Redemption and Stand By Me, to dismal lows with the likes of The Mangler and, more recently, The Dark Tower, the audience can never really tell what…
When people give you the elevator pitch for Logan Lucky, they are bound to say something along the lines of “Think Ocean’s Eleven, but with rednecks”. This may sum up Steven Soderbergh‘s return to feature film-making after a bit of a hiatus, but that description really doesn’t do justice to this smartly-written story about a…
Ghosts and demons and dolls…Oh My!!! Annabelle: Creation is a prequel of a prequel set in The Conjuring Universe. Yes, I know, we now live in a world where major studios keep trying to make their all their properties into a cinematic universe, but to be fair, The Conjuring Universe just sort of happened naturally.…
Based on a series of French science fiction comics called Valérian and Laureline, Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets is the latest offering from one of the more imaginative directors in the industry, Luc Besson. The story is centred on two space-time agents, Valerian and Laureline, as they are charged with returning a…
One of Britain’s top spies, Lorraine Broughton (Charlize Theron), the titular Atomic Blonde, is a seductive, sultry and totally ruthless killing machine. When a list of MI6 spies active in the Soviet Union gets stolen by a KGB agent, only Broughton has the particular set of skills required to retrieve the microfilm containing the list.…
Have you ever put your headphones on, let the music envelope you and everything else just fades into the background, your actions becoming automatic as you get lost in the rhythm of the song? That’s pretty much the life of Baby (Ansel Elgort), the titular young driver, who listens to music to drown out the…
A tense, barrage of the senses that has brief moments of respite, Christopher Nolan‘s latest film centres on the evacuation of British forces from the coast of France, while slowly being flanked by German forces. It’s a situation fraught with hopelessness and desperation, and is chronicled beautifully in this retelling of those fateful few days.…
It’s not very often that the films within a movie trilogy get stronger with each subsequent entry, but the Apes franchise has managed to do just that. Following the great Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, director Matt Reeves caps off the trilogy with one of the darkest entries in the franchise that also…
Well there’s no doubt about it, this movie rocks. A collaboration with Sony and Marvel, this is the second reboot that Spidey has gone through on the big screen but, unlike the previous attempt, this one sticks the landing. Avoiding rehashing the origin story that the mainstream audience is now probably sick to death of,…
Ouch. Well that was a painful slog. You would think that after seeing the previous four Transformers movies I would have learnt my lesson. But no, I keep giving Michael Bay the benefit of the doubt, only to have him let me down yet one more time. I’m beginning to wonder if I have some…
