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 […]
Category Archives: New Releases
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 […]
The Equalizer 2
This sequelizer to The Equalizer stars Denzel Washington as the eponymous neutralizer of vandalizers, terrorizers and burglarizers. It’s the perfect film if you want to catch some Zs. Since the […]
Unfriended: Dark Web
Unfriended: Dark Web is the latest entry into the internet-based found footage sub-genre, or ‘pwned footage’ for short. More an anthology-style successor than a sequel to 2014’s Unfriended (which is […]
The Meg
This US-China co-production is the worst thing to happen in American-East Asian Relations since the Singapore summit. Jason Statham goes back to his diving roots by plummeting to the depths of […]
First Reformed
Ethan Hawke and Amanda Seyfried star in ecclesiastical psychodrama First Reformed, a name so forgettable that you wonder what they were thinking when Bjorn Again was sitting right there. There […]
