Bumblebee
Remember the ’80s?? E.T.? The Smiths? Stuff blowing up? It’s all here in Bumblebee, a Transformers prequel in which the conceptually confused robot/alien/bumblebee/VW Beetle (you could call it a hybrid) crash-lands on Earth and is […]
Tag Archives: 2010s
Hanna
A young girl (Saoirse Ronan) has been raised in the wilderness by her father (Eric Bana) and trained in hand-to-hand combat. But now it’s time for her to enter the […]
Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened
Ja Rule and Billy McFarland’s Fyre Festival was meant to take place on the island of Great Exuma in 2017, and is greatly exhumed in Netflix documentary Fyre: The Greatest […]
Beautiful Boy
As well as having some sort of ‘unusual sex scene‘ clause in every movie contract, Timothée Chalamet appears to be reliving Leonardo DiCaprio’s career, following up his youthful Oscar nomination with a […]
Mary Queen of Scots
This is the story of the relationship between Mary I of Scotland (Saoirse Ronan) and Elizabeth I of England (Margot Robbie), and the fight for succession in the dying days […]
Glass
Three extraordinary individuals, Elijah Price, David Duke and Kevin Wendell Crumb (Samuel L. Jackson, Bruce Willis, James McAvoy) are apprehended and held in a psychiatric hospital. Here they’re examined by a […]
Origin Wars
We were drawn to Origin Wars by its almost comically generic title which seemed to promise either knowing irony or Judge Dredd style campy fun. But neither of these is […]
Vice
Christian Bale shows us his Dick and Sam Rockwell his Bush in Dick Cheney biopic Vice. Surprisingly for a movie that exceeds 2 hours (but unsurprisingly for the director of Anchorman, […]
Bird Box
Did you know there’s a Mayan prophecy that predicts the world will end in 2019 after becoming overrun with high-concept post-apocalyptic movies? First there was After Earth: if it senses your […]
Battleship
When aliens invade the earth in giant sea vessels, a cocksure maverick in the navy (Taylor Kitsch) must find a way to fight them. A clear Transformers wannabe, Battleship attempts […]
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