Roma
Between the deaths of that raccoon from Guardians of the Galaxy and Liam Neeson’s career, it’s been a weird couple of weeks in movieland. But weirdest of all? A Netflix film is […]
Category Archives: New Releases
The Lego Movie 2
The follow-up to the wildly successful Lego Movie takes upbeat builder Emmett (Chris Pratt) into space to the Systar System in search of his his friends who have been abducted […]
Bros: After the Screaming Stops
All I knew of ’80s band Bros was that drummer Luke Goss had been in Blade II and Hellboy II, and that this film was apparently the most Brentian documentary since […]
Alita: Battle Angel
A cyborg (Rosa Salazar) in the slums must compete in a deadly sport to reach the floating city that holds the key to her past in Alita: Battle Angel, AKA Ready […]
Can You Ever Forgive Me?
The Happytime Murders‘ Melissa McCarthy asks our forgiveness in this biography of biographer Lee Israel. The woman who put Sean Spicer on the map turns her efforts to a different kind […]
The Mule
Cinematic workhorse Clint Eastwood stars and directs as Earl, a broke horticulturalist who becomes a big-time drugs mule to make ends meet. Let’s call it Breaking Grandad. Alongside his foray […]
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 […]
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 […]
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