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 […]
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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 […]
Chappie
As big brains like Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk warn of the threat of artificial intelligence, it’s no surprise that it’s as popular- a subject as ever in the film […]
Still Alice
Julianne Moore delivers an Oscar-winning performance as the eponymous Alice, a 50-year-old linguistics professor diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s. This well-judged drama explores how the disease affects Alice and her husband John, sensitively played by […]
Ex Machina
Best known for writing such films as 28 Days Later…, Sunshine and Dredd 3D, Alex Garland delivers his directorial debut Ex Machina; a sci-fi thriller starring Oscar Isaac (bearded), Domhnall Gleeson (American) and Alicia Vikander […]
Shaun the Sheep the Movie
Shaun the Sheep and his sheep pals are getting sick of the routine of farm life, so in a clever scheme they imprison the farmer and run riot. Unfortunately, the […]
Predestination
This week marks the end of an era, as Orange Wednesdays comes to a close. This means there’s no longer any reason to be on EE, least of all those Kevin […]
Kingsman: The Secret Service
From the team behind Kick-Ass comes Kingsman: The Secret Service; James Bond retooled for the Nuts magazine generation. Let’s call it Thunderballs. Thunderballs stars Colin Firth as an impossibly suave […]
Screen Goblin 