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. […]
Fracture
Fracture is the story of Ted Crawford (Anthony Hopkins), a wealthy aeronautical engineer who shoots his wife (Embeth Davidtz) after discovering her affair with a man half his age and about her […]
Pawn Sacrifice
Tobey Maguire plays chess legend Bobby Fischer, the working class New Yorker who took on the USSR at the height of the Cold War, back when chess was cool before Deep […]
The Tale of the Princess Kaguya
Isao Takahata’s swansong is based on The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter, believed to be the oldest Japanese narrative in existence. The tale of a tiny princess discovered inside a bamboo shoot […]
Powaqqatsi
Director Godfrey Reggio and composer Philip Glass reunite in this follow-up to 1982’s Koyaanisqatsi. As with its predecessor, the film is entirely without words or story, and acts as much […]
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 […]
Brasilintime: Batucada com Discos
This 2006 documentary follows the musical collective Keepintime on their trip to Brazil, where they play shows, buy records, swap stories and buy more records. Despite its somewhat niche subject, […]
Solo: A Star Wars Story
Disney continue their mission to turn Star Wars from a major cultural event to background noise with this harbinger of the cinematic end-times. It follows self-interested smuggler Han Solo (Alden […]
Breaking In
Gabrielle Union is forced to fight for her life and her children after four men break into her father’s fortress to steal stuff. Mostly from other films. Chief among these […]
We’re Not Married!
A bumbling public official (Victor Moore) has just been granted the right to carry out marriages when a young couple arrives at his door looking to tie the knot. Several […]
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