Slaughterhouse Rulez
This is not a prequel to Slaughterhouse-Five but the first film from Simon Pegg and Nick Frost’s production company Stolen Picture. A horror-comedy set at an If….-inspired boarding school, Slaughterhouse Rulez is iffy in […]
Category Archives: New Releases
The Grinch
Liberal icon the Grinch (Benedict Cumberbatch) valiantly continues the war on Christmas by taking on Whoville, the Christmassiest town south of Lapland, home to the obsessively festive Whos. Their insufferable […]
Peterloo
Mike Leigh’s new film documents the Peterloo Massacre of 1819, when cavalry charged a large crowd of protesters in Manchester, who had gathered to demand suffrage and watch Rory Kinnear […]
First Man
Ryan Gosling takes flight to outer space as Neil Armstrong, the first man on the moon. We recently reviewed Bohemian Rhapsody, in which every shortcut common to biographical films was […]
Fahrenheit 11/9
Fahrenheit 11/9 (or to use its British title, Celsius 9/11) is the new film from Michael Moore, not to be confused with rapper Macklemore (or Dexter Jettster for that matter). […]
Bohemian Rhapsody
The long-awaited biopic of the Queen front man finally makes its way onto our screens, charting the journey of Freddie Mercury (Rami Malek) from the formation of Queen to their […]
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 […]
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 […]
