Hunt for the Wilderpeople
A streetwise child (Julian Dennison) and his reluctant foster dad (Sam Neill) become the subject of a manhunt through the bush in this Kiwi comedy, a sort of mash-up of […]
Category Archives: New Releases
Arrival
Look up to the skies! What’s that approaching? It’s Arrival, the new alien contact movie from Denis Villeneuve, the director of Enemy and Sicario – but don’t let that put […]
Doctor Strange
It’s the fourteenth outing of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (I think!) and we’re now well into relatively unknown ‘second tier’ superheroes. Next on the list of ‘properties we haven’t used […]
I, Daniel Blake
British realism stalwarts Ken Loach and Paul Laverty reunite for I, Daniel Blake, a forceful, timely drama about a carpenter (Dave Johns) deemed “fit for work” following a heart attack, despite contradictory warnings from his […]
Blood Father
I remember hearing a story about one of Mel Gibson’s parenting tactics. He’d put dummy heads (from film sets) on spikes, and when his daughter’s boyfriends came to pick her up, he’d […]
My Scientology Movie
Documentarian and falsetto singer Louis Theroux takes to the big screen with this investigation into the Church of Scientology. We’re reviewing this documentary between us in order to confuse the squirrel-busters. An […]
The Girl on the Train
The year that cinema forgot continues with The Girl on the Train, based on Paula Hawkins’ best-selling novel. A divorced woman (Emily Blunt), drunk and depressed, becomes obsessed with a […]
Don’t Breathe
From director Fede Alvarez and producer Sam Raimi comes new horror film Don’t Breathe, sung in my head to the tune of ‘Don’t Speak’ by No Doubt. Trying to steal a […]
The Magnificent Seven
The latest product of a Hollywood executive’s brainstorming session entitled “What haven’t we remade yet?” is a rerun of classic Western The Magnificent Seven, about a gang of, you guessed […]
Anthropoid
This weekend sees the release of at least two Toby Jones movies. One is a sci-fi film with the decidedly un-sci-fi title Morgan; the other a war film with the […]
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