Wish Upon
Final Destination meets Bruce Almighty in a new horror film called Wish Upon. I don’t know why. Based on The Monkey’s Paw by W. W. Jacobs, Wish Upon follows Clare (Joey King), a high […]
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Before Buffy the Vampire Slayer became the greatest TV show of all time, it was a 1992 film, and the first big-screenwriting credit for a young Joss Whedon. As in “Whedon’t talk […]
Dunkirk
In Christopher Nolan’s latest film he trades big ideas for historical realism in this reconstruction of the evacuation of Dunkirk. It dives straight in from the start with an atmosphere […]
All Eyez on Me
After appearing in Notorious and Straight Outta Compton, it’s about time that Tupac got his own film. All Eyez on Me is a whistlestop tour of his entire life, from […]
Black Shampoo
Mr Jonathan (John Daniels) is a sexy hairdresser with a libido as big as his afro, who does more for his favourite customers than just their hair, presumably in violation […]
War for the Planet of the Apes
If you want a masterclass in how to update a classic franchise into a slick, modern, engrossing sci-fi thriller, look no further than the Apes trilogy, which began in 2011 […]
The Beguiled
Set in rural Mississippi during the Civil War, The Beguiled finds a wounded northern soldier (Colin Farrell) taken in by the ‘Farnsworth Seminary for Young Ladies’. Sofia Coppola remakes this Clint Eastwood film […]
It Comes At Night and Post-Horror Post-Mortem
The Guardian recently ran an article proclaiming the birth of “post-horror“, its chief example being Trey Edward Shults’ It Comes At Night. Set in a post-apocalyptic future where a virus […]
Spider-Man: Homecoming
Everyone’s favourite web-slinging wunderkind is back in his latest incarnation, played by plucky embryo Tom Holland. That’s right, the latest Spider-Man movie will bring the iconic superhero to a whole […]
Baby Driver
It’s standard practice: walking around, listening to music and imagining you’re in a movie. We’ve all done it; Edgar Wright’s gone and made it. Baby Driver is not a prequel […]
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