Halloween (2018)
Just in time for 2 weeks before Halloween comes this reboot of John Carpenter’s classic slasher, set 40 years after the original. In it, Michael Myers escapes incarceration and goes […]
Category Archives: New Releases
Cold War
This Soviet love story comes along just as Jeremy Hunt faces criticism for comparing the EU to the USSR, with one diplomat suggesting that he “open a history book from […]
A Star is Born
Lady Gaga takes on a role previously played by Judy Garland and Barbra Streisand as Ally, a young woman with an incredible voice, who is discovered by Jackson (Bradley Cooper) […]
Searching
From the producer of Unfriended and Unfriended: Dark Web comes another screen-based thriller about a father (John Cho) searching for his teenage daughter (Michelle La), who goes missing after running into some […]
American Animals
You’d be forgiven for being sceptical about yet another film called American Something, but having previously sat through films like American Pie and American Ultra, I feel that if it’s good enough for Max […]
The Miseducation of Cameron Post
A teenager (Chloë Grace Moretz) is sent to a gay conversion centre after she’s caught with another girl (Quinn Shephard) in The Miseducation of Cameron Post, or Girl on Girl Interrupted. Based on Emily […]
The Crappytime Murders
Guy Ritchie ruined my 17th birthday. He wasn’t invited or anything, but 10 years ago today I went to see RocknRolla and not since the actual day of my birth has […]
Yardie
Jamaican drug runner Dennis (Aml Ameen) is sent to Hackney in Idris Elba’s directorial debut Yardie, or The Harder They Come To London. Unfortunately Elba appears to have picked up […]
Slender Man
Let me start with some real-world background: in 2014, an American kid stabbed a classmate in the woods after reportedly being inspired by Slender Man, a meme that came from […]
A Spike Lee Joint: BlacKkKlansman
Spike Lee parks his tanks on the lawn of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in this adaptation of the remarkable true story of Ron Stallworth (John David Washington), the first black detective […]
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