Oppenheimer
Cillian Murphy plays the Father of the Atomic Bomb in Oppenheimer, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (and Then Hate the Bomb Again). Christopher Nolan’s […]
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Weird Science
School dorks Wyatt and Gary (Ilan Mitchell-Smith and Anthony Michael Hall) are sick of being social outcasts who can’t get a girl so they digitally engineer a superwoman (Kelly LeBrock) […]
Avengers: Endgame
Since Iron Man first massacred those Afghans back in 2008, all manner of phenomena have come and gone: The DC Universe. Star Wars. Brexit. The MCU has survived them all, […]
Avengers: Infinity War
Thanos, the villain first teased in 2012’s The Avengers, finally crashes through the ceiling for his moment in the limelight. In a plan that could have been concocted by an […]
Short Cuts
Short Cuts is a 1993 Robert Altman film inspired by Raymond Carver’s short stories, not to be confused with Short Cunts starring Tom Cruise and me. Short Cuts may be an […]
Spider-Man: Homecoming
Everyone’s favourite web-slinging wunderkind is back in his latest incarnation, played by plucky embryo Tom Holland. That’s right, the latest Spider-Man movie will bring the iconic superhero to a whole […]
Chaplin
Richard Attenborough returns to the biopic, this time charting the life of silent comedy star Charlie Chaplin. Without a doubt the best thing about this film is Robert Downey Jr’s […]
Gothika
This 2003 horror movie is a woeful entry into the moribund scary-ghost-girl sub-genre. In a performance as limp and lifeless as her hair, Halle Berry plays a psychiatrist who’s inexplicably […]
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, […]
The Judge
Robert Downey Jr. plays Robert Duvall Jr. in this courtroom-cum-family drama about a hotshot lawyer (Downey Jr.) who ends up defending his estranged father (Duvall), a respected judge accused of […]
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