The Handmaiden
From Park Chan-wook, the South Korean mastermind behind Oldboy and Stoker, comes the best film about a handmaiden since The Phantom Menace. Ostensibly the story of a pickpocket (Kim Tae-ri) […]
Category Archives: New Releases
Lady Macbeth
The young Katherine (Florence Pugh) is sold into marriage to an older man (Paul Hilton) in this new British drama. That Nikolai Leskov’s 1865 novel, Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District, has […]
Mindhorn
A washed-up actor from ’80s detective show Mindhorn (Julian Barratt) must work with the police when a suspected serial killer (Russell Tovey) demands to speak to Detective Mindhorn. It’s Galaxy Quest meets Alan […]
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
It’s finally here. After 28 years, we have a sequel to Tango & Cash. When we last saw our heroes (Sylvester Stallone and Kurt Russell), they were high-fiving in a ditch. Now, […]
Raw
This French-Belgian horror-drama is the story of a life-long vegetarian studying at what can only be described as The Stanley Kubrick School for Veterinary Science. Raw caused a literal splash on the festival […]
Free Fire
Free Fire is a new shoot ’em up from the prolific, terrific and often horrific Ben Wheatley. Set in 1978, the movie concerns an arms deal that goes south faster […]
Personal Shopper
Frown with limbs Kristen Stewart plays Maureen, a personal shopper who’s also a medium. That’s not her clothing size, I mean she can speak to the dead. Her recently deceased twin brother […]
Life
New sci-fi/horror movie Life is a lot like Alien – but instead of a terrifying alien there’s quite a cute starfish creature, instead of Dan O’Bannon it’s the Deadpool writers, and instead […]
Elle
One-man Dutch movie industry Paul Verhoeven directs Elle, or as Cineworld lists it, Elle (French). Not a prequel to Elvira, Mistress of the Dark (I don’t know what that means either), Elle stars Isabelle Huppert as the […]
Kong: Skull Island
King Kong is back in this non-awaited reboot of the original movie monster. But will it have the original’s classic charm? The brilliantly animated Kong of Peter Jackson’s 2005 effort? […]
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