Carol
“Oh Carol,” Chuck Berry once sang, “don’t let him steal your heart away.” Or her, in the case of this romance based on Patricia Highsmith’s The Price of Salt. Carol tells […]
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Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension 3D
I think this yoghurt is haunted. That’s the last time I buy Paranormal Activia. I’ve wasted enough time complaining about found footage films, so I’ll spare you another rant about watching […]
Steve Jobs
From the writer of The Social Network comes the story of a socially inept inventor who founded a giant tech company. Who says Hollywood has no new ideas? Steve Jobs […]
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2
Everybody’s favourite dystopian gameshow is back – but enough about The Apprentice, here’s the final Hunger Games movie. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 is too long, both as a title […]
Frankenstein (1931)
This is the definitive adaptation of the Mary Shelley novel – the one you’ve seen clips of, and the one a million later Frankenstein’s monsters have been modelled on. Created […]
Spectre
Daniel Craig stars in this new biopic of Phil Spector. Not really – it’s just another Bond film. In Craig’s fourth outing as 007, our misogynist hero uncovers a sinister organisation […]
Kill Bill vol. 2
The second part of the world’s worst titled film features more random violence, more lazy two-dimensional caricatures and more evidence that Quentin Tarantino got lucky in the 90s. The cultural […]
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 […]
Crimson Peak
Guillermo goes gothic in this new mystery tale starring Mia Wasikowska, Jessica Chastain and Tom Hiddleston. Set around the turn of the 20th century, Crimson Peak is not a sequel to submarine movie Crimson Tide – […]
The Lobster
Colin Farrell channels Dougal McGuire, as he checks in to a dystopian spa, where he has 45 days to find a romantic partner or else be turned into an animal of […]
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