Confucius
Chow Yun Fat stars as the legendary thinker of ancient China, charting his rise to a senior member of the royal court, followed by his years in exile. A great […]
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The Banquet
Shakespeare’s Hamlet is transported back 2,000 years to the opulent surroundings of ancient China, where trouble is brewing in the imperial court. The Crown Prince Wuluan (Daniel Wu) is in […]
Molly’s Game
Molly’s Game is the directorial debut of Aaron Sorkin, proving that he directs as well as he writes. In that his writing here is awful too. Jessica Chastain plays Molly […]
Sympathy for Mr Vengeance
Ryu (Ha-kyun Shin) is a down-on-his-luck factory worker who lives with his blind girlfriend and supports his sister through a serious kidney disease. After he tries everything to get her […]
The Disaster Artist
The Disaster Artist is a new film about the making of the worst movie ever: Batman v Superman. Dubbed “the Citizen Kane of bad films”, The Room is a 2003 romantic drama produced, […]
Royal Academy of Arts: Dali/Duchamp
This fascinating exhibition takes a look at the life and works of conceptual pioneer Marcel Duchamp and his surrealist friend Salvador Dalí – with a smattering of ‘third’ Man Ray. […]
Ingrid Goes West
Counterprogramming involves competing with a big release by scheduling a film that’s the exact opposite. So you put a Nicole Kidman movie up against a Gary Oldman movie. Or if they […]
The Pink Panther (1963)
When the Pink Panther diamond goes missing, clumsy detective Inspector Clouseau (Peter Sellers) tries to track it down. Watching this in 2017 it’s very hard to see why it’s so […]
Murder on the Orient Express
The power of Hollywood is the power to make us believe the unbelievable. That superheroes are living amongst us and using Bing. That Jai Courtney is someone who should be […]
Jigsaw
7 years after we last saw John Kramer AKA the Jigsaw Killer comes this new Saw film. Remember the Saw films? They were one of these depressing noughties inventions, like Skins […]
