Ocean’s 8
In 2018, Hollywood added “criminal” to women’s list of job prospects, alongside “Ghostbuster“, “Bosley” and “annoying droid“. This gender-swapped reboot sees Danny Ocean’s newly paroled sister Debbie (Sandra Bullock) rounding […]
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Elizabeth: The Golden Age
As Spanish invasion looms, Elizabeth I (Cate Blanchett) does her best to avoid being known forever as ‘the Virgin Queen’. Elizabeth: The Golden Age is an altogether more lively affair […]
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 […]
Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle
Legendary character actor and mo-cap aficionado Andy Serkis directs the second live-action Jungle Book story in two years, following Jon Favreau’s acclaimed 2016 effort. Conceived roughly around the same time, Serkis […]
The Talented Mr. Ripley
We look back on The Talented Mr. Ripley to celebrate Gwyneth’s Paltrow’s engagement, which she’s been plugging profusely on Goop. She’s always plugging something profusely. But sadly never her mouth. Appropriately enough, this […]
Thor: Ragnarok
Rappers MC Hammer and Lowkey do battle with Grandmaster Flash in this, the third Thor movie. Two more and we’ll finally be able to say: “One to see Thor Five, […]
Carol
“Oh Carol,” Chuck Berry once sang, “don’t let him steal your heart away.” Or her, in this case. Adapted from a Patricia Highsmith novel, Carol is the story of an affair between two […]
I’m Not There
This is a biopic of musician Bob Dylan that takes us from his youth as a black child, to his early adulthood, his time as a woman, and his later […]
Blue Jasmine
After almost a decade of hopping around Europe, with varying degrees of success, Woody Allen returns to the USA for his billionth film, Blue Jasmine. Blue Jasmine is about […]
