Unfriended
A group Skype session is rudely interrupted by a cyber-psycho in Unfriended, a found footage film for the Facebook generation. Let’s call it The Antisocial Network. Eyes Without a Facebook […]
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The Good Lie
This is the story of a group of children whose tribe in Sudan is torn apart by war. With the village adults murdered by soldiers, the children are forced to walk […]
Force Majeure
Ski resorts are ripe screen territory, having set the scene for Swiss drama Sister by Ursula Meier (no relation – probably), British rom-com Chalet Girl (never seen it) and the […]
It Follows
After the tedious stupidity of John Wick, here’s another piece of trash that’s inexplicably impressed critics; new(ish) horror film It Follows – not to be mixed up with In Fear, as I did, […]
Avengers: Age of Ultron
Some spoilers. You have been warned. Some time after Captain America: The Winter Soldier, the Avengers are hunting down Hydra to find Loki’s sceptre. But Hydra has a secret weapon, […]
John Wick
In the latest straight-to-DVD action movie to somehow wind up in cinemas, Keanu Reeves plays John Wick – a retired hitman with a classic car, a cute puppy and a […]
Batman (1966)
It’s currently very unfashionable to mix superheroes with campy fun, and as much as I would have loved to see Hugh Jackman spouting wolf-related puns, or an Iron Man suit […]
Wild Tales
Argentina’s entry for 2014’s foreign language Oscar was portmanteau movie Wild Tales, or Relatos salvajes if you’re Spanish or pretentious. Wild Tales comprises six short stories, featuring a disgruntled explosives […]
Focus
Veteran con artist Nicky (Will Smith) takes small-time hustler Jess (Margot Robbie) under his wing, in this crime caper with a twist (that Will Smith left his kids at home this […]
Inherent Vice
Chinatown meets China White in Paul Thomas Anderson’s druggy detective mystery – a stonoir, if you will. Inherent Vice is set in 1970s Los Angeles, with the Vietnam War, the Manson Family murders […]
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