Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
If nothing else, 2016 has given us a new Star Trek and Star Wars film. The only other year this has happened was 2002, fact fans. So it’s been a great year […]
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The Birth of a Nation (2016)
100 years after D. W. Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation comes this slavery drama of the same name – not a remake, but a symbolic appropriation of the racist film’s title; The Birth of a Namesake. […]
American Honey
The most overused naming convention in the history of cinema strikes again with American Honey, an indie road movie about an 18-year-old girl called Star (Sasha Lane), who meets travelling magazine […]
Allied
Marion Cotillard and Brad Pitt play unconvincing spies who unconvincingly fall in love and move to Hampstead in this unconvincing WWII thriller. Let’s call it Incredulous Basterds. Again Bad Pitt […]
Paterson
Adam Driver plays a bus driver called Paterson in a city called Paterson in the new film Paterson. Yes it sounds boring, but unlike most bus journeys, it’s actually surprisingly enjoyable […]
Labyrinth
The sorely missed David Bowie, former Python Terry Jones and Muppet overlord Jim Henson join forces for Labyrinth – the adventures of a teenager called Sarah (Jennifer Connelly) as she journeys through a […]
Nocturnal Animals
Not to be confused with Fantastic Beasts, Nocturnal Animals is a new adaptation of the Austin Wright novel Tony and Susan. I see why they changed the title. Written and directed by Tom […]
Hunt for the Wilderpeople
A streetwise child (Julian Dennison) and his reluctant foster dad (Sam Neill) become the subject of a manhunt through the bush in this Kiwi comedy, a sort of mash-up of […]
I’m Still Here
This cinematic oddity from 2010 follows Joaquin Phoenix’s retirement from acting and pursuit of a hip-hop career. Except it doesn’t. The whole thing was a hoax, staged and scripted by […]
Hell Night
Linda Blair stars in Hell Night – not a documentary about the recent American election, but a slasher movie from 1981. Four college kids spend a night in a murder house […]
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