Crucible of the Vampire
It is a truth universally acknowledged that if one spends enough time at the Prince Charles Cinema, one eventually sees Tommy Wiseau. Even so, I didn’t expect to, since I […]
Category Archives: New Releases
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Beautiful Boy
As well as having some sort of ‘unusual sex scene‘ clause in every movie contract, Timothée Chalamet appears to be reliving Leonardo DiCaprio’s career, following up his youthful Oscar nomination with a […]
Mary Queen of Scots
This is the story of the relationship between Mary I of Scotland (Saoirse Ronan) and Elizabeth I of England (Margot Robbie), and the fight for succession in the dying days […]
Glass
Three extraordinary individuals, Elijah Price, David Duke and Kevin Wendell Crumb (Samuel L. Jackson, Bruce Willis, James McAvoy) are apprehended and held in a psychiatric hospital. Here they’re examined by a […]
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