Ant-Man and the Wasp
The world’s only superhero vulnerable to Henry Hoovers is back and teaming up with the Wasp, whose powers, as her name suggests, involve being an affluent white lady. Scott Lang […]
Category Archives: New Releases
Incredibles 2
When it comes to sequels, Pixar and baby Jack-Jack have something in common: the Terrible Twos. Monsters University was about as welcome as Freshers’ Flu, and the less said about […]
Mission: Impossible – Fallout
Everyone’s favourite ass-kicking Scientologist is back as Ethan Hunt, the super-spy who spends two and a half hours falling out of cars, windows and helicopters. This is Mission: Impossible – […]
Generation Wealth
This timely documentary about our cultural obsession with wealth comes the same week that Forbes declared Kylie Jenner a “self-made billionaire,” because words don’t matter nowadays. Only capital. And we don’t […]
Marrowbone
Set in 1969, Marrowbone follows an English family fleeing to America. Remember when that was a good idea? This Spanish-produced but English-language (debatable given some of the dialogue) chiller is written […]
Skyscraper
More a one-man movie industry than an actor, Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson has wrestled the disaster flick from Roland Emmerich’s clammy hands. Barely has the dust settled on his last […]
The First Purge
I should start by saying I’ve not seen the other Purge movies, having always found the premise profoundly stupid. Why would any government make all crime legal for one night […]
Hereditary
Be wary of horror films claiming to be the scariest thing since sentient bread. Usually when critics make those kinds of claims they’re only comparing them to those Conjuring movies, which […]
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
For all its stupidity, 2015’s Jurassic World was probably the best film about a dinosaur since The Iron Lady. Like the original Jurassic Park it combined our love of dinosaurs, theme parks and asexual reproduction. […]
The Breadwinner
This tale of a young girl (Saara Chaudry) living in Taliban-controlled Kabul, who disguises herself as a boy in order to provide for her family, was nominated for the Best […]
