Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret
11-year-old Margaret (Abby Ryder Fortson) navigates puberty, religion and New Jersey (among other forms of knitwear) in this new adaptation of Judy Blume’s classic period drama. A groundbreaking novel in […]
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
The multiverse Spideys are back in this web-slinging, head-spinning sequel, sadly missing the opportunity for an updated theme song: Spider-Man, Spider-Man, Spider-Man, Spider-Man, Spider-Maaan, Spider-Man… you get the idea. Across […]
Missing
The latest instalment in the “screenlife” genre (where events take place entirely on screens) is a follow-up to 2018’s Searching, where a man used the internet to track down his […]
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
Everyone’s favourite fugitive is back at DreamWorks – no I don’t mean Alec Baldwin is doing another Boss Baby movie. That would be as mad as continuing to make Rust. […]
Evil Dead Rise
10 years since the Necronomicon last unleashed a torrent of boring on unsuspecting moviegoers, the Evil Dead are back in this perfunctory prequel. This time the Book of the Dead […]
Evil Dead (2013)
Apparently forgetting he already remade The Evil Dead to perfection in Evil Dead II, Sam Raimi flogs the undead horse in this humourless husk from 2013. In Fede Álvarez‘s directorial […]
Suzume
The new anime from Makoto Shinkai forms a trilogy of sorts with Your Name and Weathering With You. Another nascent couple averts another natural disaster, this time in the form […]
Alien
Few films are as influential and more pointless to review than Alien; by this point trying to say anything new about the 1979 classic is the critical equivalent of screaming […]
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
A widowed bard (Chris Pine) has to find a relic to resurrect his wife. That is the entire plot of this 2+ hour Dungeons & Dragons movie. Of all the […]
13 Assassins
It is testament to the grandeur of Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai that even its remakes get remakes (there are two Magnificent Sevens and two 13 Assassins) while the original title […]
