The Midnight Sky
Felicity Jones is pregnant, the planet is dying and the human race stands on the precipice of extinction. But that’s enough news, on with the review. In the year Blade […]
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Proxima
The cinemas are finally reopening with social distancing measures in place, the most effective being screening French dramas unlikely to draw a crowd. Proxima follows an astronaut (Eva Green) preparing […]
Roma
Between the deaths of that raccoon from Guardians of the Galaxy and Liam Neeson’s career, it’s been a weird couple of weeks in movieland. But weirdest of all? A Netflix film is […]
First Man
Ryan Gosling takes flight to outer space as Neil Armstrong, the first man on the moon. We recently reviewed Bohemian Rhapsody, in which every shortcut common to biographical films was […]
Life
New sci-fi/horror movie Life is a lot like Alien – but instead of a terrifying alien there’s quite a cute starfish creature, instead of Dan O’Bannon it’s the Deadpool writers, and instead […]
The Goblin Awards 2013
We were planning to do a “best of 2013” type blog post for the end of the year, but with a cinematic year about as inspiring as a pizza flavoured […]
All Is Lost
Robert Redford is on a boat, in the new survival movie All Is Lost; just about the bleakest possible name for a film, short of calling it He’s Fucked. With Gravity still floating around the […]
Open Water
With Gravity still orbiting cinemas, let’s look at another sea sickness-inducing survival movie. Made in 2003 and based on real events, Open Water follows a couple whose scuba diving holiday […]
In Fear
After a year of disappointing horror films, finally a new release breathes some life into the genre. In Fear is a low-budget British offering which could teach a thing or […]
Captain Phillips
Welcome back to our occasional feature in which we review a film frustratingly close to the end of its cinematic run – today, Captain Phillips, directed by Paul Greengrass. The […]
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