Ant-Man and the Wasp
The world’s only superhero vulnerable to Henry Hoovers is back and teaming up with the Wasp, whose powers, as her name suggests, involve being an affluent white lady. Scott Lang […]
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Incredibles 2
When it comes to sequels, Pixar and baby Jack-Jack have something in common: the Terrible Twos. Monsters University was about as welcome as Freshers’ Flu, and the less said about […]
I’ve never seen…My Fair Lady
Eliza Doolittle (Audrey Hepburn) is a working class flower vendor on the streets of London. She’s plucked from her meagre existence by Henry Higgins (Rex Harrison), an arrogant phonetician who […]
Muriel’s Wedding
Toni Colette is Muriel, a down-beaten young woman who fills the hole in her life with ABBA and dreams of the perfect wedding in her dead-end hometown of Porpoise Spit. Along […]
Generation Wealth
This timely documentary about our cultural obsession with wealth comes the same week that Forbes declared Kylie Jenner a “self-made billionaire,” because words don’t matter nowadays. Only capital. And we don’t […]
Barry Humphries: Weimar Cabaret
Barry Humphries, better known as alter ego Dame Edna Everage, presents a repertoire of cabaret classics from Weimar Germany complete with full jazz orchestra and delightfully elegant cabaret artist Meow […]
Marrowbone
Set in 1969, Marrowbone follows an English family fleeing to America. Remember when that was a good idea? This Spanish-produced but English-language (debatable given some of the dialogue) chiller is written […]
Skyscraper
More a one-man movie industry than an actor, Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson has wrestled the disaster flick from Roland Emmerich’s clammy hands. Barely has the dust settled on his last […]
The First Purge
I should start by saying I’ve not seen the other Purge movies, having always found the premise profoundly stupid. Why would any government make all crime legal for one night […]
Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami
Grace Jones has done everything. She was one of the first supermodels, is arguably the most influential Jamaican musician since Bob Marley, and even starred in an Arnold Schwarzenegger movie. […]
