Puss in Boots
Rounding off our reviews of the less beloved films in the Shrek franchise, Puss in Boots tells the cat’s backstory in a quest to find the golden eggs from the top of a beanstalk. Along […]
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The Shallows
The release of new shark movie The Shallows coincides with today’s discovery of 400-year-old sharks, believed to be the world’s oldest vertebrate animals – a bit like when The Martian was released the same […]
Seconds
Seconds is a 1966 sci-fi about a company that offers unhappy individuals the chance to be “reborn” as a different person. Arthur Hamilton (John Randolph) is such a man: an unfulfilled, middle-aged banker, […]
Suicide Squad
In the latest entry into the DCEU, a government operative (Viola Davis) rounds up a team of supervillains to save the world. What could possibly go wrong? Everything. Suicide Squad is such a mess […]
Born to be Blue
A few months ago, Don Cheadle played Miles Davis in jazz caper Miles Ahead. Now, Ethan Hawke plays Chet Baker in a similarly improvisational (and druggy) take on the jazz trumpeter’s […]
Jason Bourne
Matt Damon is Bourne again in this fourth or fifth instalment, depending on whether you remember The Bourne Legacy, starring Jeremy Renner. Some legacy. Jason Bourne’s story was resolved at the […]
The BFG
Steven Spielberg’s adaptation of the Roald Dahl book follows orphan Sophie (Ruby Barnhill) as she befriends a Big Friendly Giant (Mark Rylance) – even though his name is tautological, the stupid […]
Goodnight Mommy
Trust the Austrians to put forward as their Oscar submission a wincingly nasty horror film, in which a woman (Susanne Wuest) returns home after surgery with a bandaged face and erratic behaviour, leaving her twin […]
Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
The latest Britcom to get the obligatory big-screen treatment is Ab Fab, observing the time-honoured sitcom movie tradition of taking the characters abroad, darling. Jennifer Saunders and Joanna Lumley are still a booze-swilling, chain-smoking, fashion-bothering […]
Shocker
Shocker is a 1989 slasher by everyone’s favourite Baptist turned pornographer: the late, great Wes Craven. Mitch Pileggi plays TV repairman and serial killer Horace Pinker, who’s executed by electric chair […]
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