Destroyer
Nicole Kidman plays ruthless detective Clarice Stalin (or something), a deeply damaged woman whose paranoia, as Jay Kay sang, will destroy ‘er. The new film from Jennifer’s Body director Karyn Kusama […]
Monthly Archives: January 2019
Three Identical Strangers
Not since Eddie Murphy signed up for the Twins sequel has a film about triplets made as many headlines as Three Identical Strangers. Tim Wardle’s documentary is another case of ‘the […]
If Beale Street Could Talk
From Barry Jenkins, the director of Moonlight, If Beale Street Could Talk is the story of a young couple Tish (KiKi Layne) and Phonny (Stephan James). After Phonny is imprisoned […]
One Cut of the Dead
Nominated for 7 Japanese Academy Awards, One Cut of the Dead is a meta zombie comedy whose title presumably works better in Japanese. Taking place on the set of a […]
Bumblebee
Remember the ’80s?? E.T.? The Smiths? Stuff blowing up? It’s all here in Bumblebee, a Transformers prequel in which the conceptually confused robot/alien/bumblebee/VW Beetle (you could call it a hybrid) crash-lands on Earth and is […]
Hanna
A young girl (Saoirse Ronan) has been raised in the wilderness by her father (Eric Bana) and trained in hand-to-hand combat. But now it’s time for her to enter the […]
Shaft
John Shaft (Samuel L. Jackson), nephew of the original black private dick (Richard Roundtree), works for the NYPD in typically maverick style. But when a known racist (Christian Bale) escapes […]
The Addams Family
America’s most creepy and kooky, mysterious and spooky, chunky yet funky (or is that Latrice Royale) family hit the big screen in 1991, finding themselves the victim of a con involving […]
Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened
Ja Rule and Billy McFarland’s Fyre Festival was meant to take place on the island of Great Exuma in 2017, and is greatly exhumed in Netflix documentary Fyre: The Greatest […]
Matilda
Carrie meets Malcolm in the Middle in this 1996 Roald Dahl adaptation. Danny DeVito directs this tale of a telekinetic Lisa Simpson (Mara Wilson) with the same heightened physicality displayed in […]
