He Named Me Malala
In case you don’t already know, Malala Yousafzai is the Pakistani girl who was shot in the head by the Taliban for publicly arguing for girls’ education. Unfortunately for the […]
Category Archives: New Releases
Spectre
Daniel Craig stars in this new biopic of Phil Spector. Not really – it’s just another Bond film. In Craig’s fourth outing as 007, our misogynist hero uncovers a sinister organisation […]
Suffragette
Set around the turn of the century, Suffragette is the story of a young laundry worker Maud (Carey Mulligan), who gets drawn into women’s activism after joining a group of […]
Crimson Peak
Guillermo goes gothic in this new mystery tale starring Mia Wasikowska, Jessica Chastain and Tom Hiddleston. Set around the turn of the 20th century, Crimson Peak is not a sequel to submarine movie Crimson Tide – […]
The Lobster
Colin Farrell channels Dougal McGuire, as he checks in to a dystopian spa, where he has 45 days to find a romantic partner or else be turned into an animal of […]
American Ultra
The latest film to be called American Something is American Ultra; an action/comedy about a slacker couple (Jesse Eisenberg and Kristen Stewart) whose burnout lives are turned upside down when he turns out […]
Macbeth
Michael Fassbender plays the titular character – a Scottish Thain with cut-throat ambitions and a murderous instinct. When some strange women prophesise that he will one day be King of Scotland […]
The Martian
If you were stranded on a deserted planet, what would be your first move? Find food? Secure oxygen? Build yourself a robot friend? Matt Damon plays such a person, astronaut […]
Sicario
Sicario opens with a drugs raid on a house whose walls turn out to be lined with 40 rotting corpses. How could anyone live there? Doesn’t the smell bother them? It’s bad enough […]
Woody Allen: A Double Bill – Part 6: Woody’s Dead
The Jewish High Holy Days seem like the perfect time to bring back my Woody Allen double-bills, where I review one of the auteur’s best films and one of his worst. Crimes […]
