Hell or High Water
Chris Pine and Ben Foster co-star in Hell or High Water; not the first time the Star Trek and X-Men universes have converged, and it sure as hell won’t be […]
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A Monster Calls
A Monster Calls is not a sequel to An Inspector Calls but a magical realist film directed by J.A. Bayona (The Orphanage) and written by Patrick Ness, adapted from his novel. It’s […]
Three Colours: Red
Continuing with Krzysztof Kieślowski’s Three Colours trilogy, each film exploring a principal of the French Revolution, Red is the chapter that examines fraternity. This is actually the final part of the trilogy, […]
Assassin’s Creed
With hangovers barely cured from New Year’s celebrations, anyone hoping that 2017 will be a better year than 2016 had better ignore the warning signs of this 1 January release. […]
Passengers
I always envy characters in cryosleep; spending decades in an induced state of hibernation sounds brilliant. Particularly if you get to sleep through a film as thoroughly abysmal as Morten […]
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 […]
Your Name
The latest anime film so good it’s found its way to British cinemas is Your Name, from director Makoto Shinkai. It follows two young people, Mitsuha (Mone Kamishiraishi) and Taki […]
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. […]
The Birth of a Nation
Released in 1915, The Birth of a Nation is a historical epic aiming to present the history of America from the Civil War to the rise of the Ku Klux […]
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 […]
Screen Goblin 