Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
Kenneth Branagh revives a classic property and then kills it again in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, an attempt to elevate itself over previous adaptations by including the talent’s name in the title, […]
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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 […]
Hamlet (1990)
Mel Gibson goes mad in this cinematic version of perhaps the most quoted and adapted of Shakespeare’s tragedies. Where films like The Banquet and The Bad Sleep Well took Hamlet into […]
Terminator Salvation
2009 sequel Terminator Salvation is the only movie in the franchise that doesn’t feature time travel, unless you count travelling back to the year Sam Worthington appeared in some films. […]
Planet of the Apes (2001)
Between 2013 and 2016 we reviewed every Planet of the Apes film (with the addition of War for the Planet of the Apes when it was released in 2017). Every […]
Alice Through the Looking Glass
Some years after Alice In Wonderland, Alice is a successful sea captain and Tim Burton is no more. After being robbed of her ship and wealth, Alice (Mia Wasikowska) returns […]
Suffragette
Set around the turn of the century, Suffragette is the story of a young laundry worker Maud (Carey Mulligan), who gets drawn into women’s activism after joining a group of […]
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd hit the big screen in 2007, courtesy of artist, director and David Cameron’s friend Tim Burton. In one of the great shock casting decisions of the […]
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
In Wallace and Gromit’s 2005 cinematic debut, our plasticine heroes run a humane pest-control service called Anti-Pesto, there’s a were-rabbit on the loose, and the Giant Vegetable Competition is fast […]
