“You said it was going to be about the girl,” says Rag (Anna Pniowsky) with accusatory eyes in the opening scene of Light Of My Life. Her father (Casey Affleck) has just told her a bedtime story, supposedly about a girl fox but soon derailed into a story about a boy fox. That accusation –
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Joe Cornish’s Attack The Block follow-up The Kid Who Would Be King is a wonderful adventure By Amy West 15-02-19 3,058 Released: 15 February 2019 Certificate: PG Director: Joe Cornish Writer: Joe Cornish Cast: Louis Ashbourne Serkis, Angus Imrie, Dean Chaumoo, Tom Taylor, Rebecca Ferguson, Patrick Stewart Distributor: 20th Century Fox If you like this,
Family and superhero antics don’t mix in The Umbrella Academy, on Netflix 15 February By Abigail Chandler 14-02-19 1,951 Released: 15 February Cast: Ellen Page, Tom Hopper, Robert Sheehan, David Castañeda, Emmy Raver-Lampman, Aidan Gallagher Distributor: Netflix If you like this, try… Legion If you want a show that embraces the weirdness inherent in the
While it may be set in the near future of 2027, the ideals of the sinister, conservative and theocratic state in Gabriel Mascaro’s Divine Love (Divino Amor)’s vision of Brazil runs parallel to that of their current administration. Mascaro upends the tropes of the future dystopia by shooting the film with a focus on bold
Here’s our review of teen horror-comedy sequel Happy Death Day 2U By Katherine McLaughlin 12-02-19 104 Released: 13 February Certificate: 15 Director: Christopher Landon Cast: Jessica Rothe, Ruby Modine, Israel Broussard If you like this, try… Detention Joseph Khan’s witty and smart time-travel slasher is a rapid love letter to teen horror and cult films.
Here’s our review of The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part, in cinemas 8 February By Katherine McLaughlin 06-02-19 1,876 Released: 8 February Certificate: U Director: Mike Mitchell, Trisha Gum Cast: Chris Pratt, Elizabeth Banks, Will Arnett, Tiffany Haddish Distributor: Warner Bros If you like this, try… The Powerpuff Girls Movie A smart origin story
Every now and then, Hollywood gives us a gigantic sci-fi film so fully committed to its world and premise that it flies directly into the sun of niche appeal ludicrousness, finding a special place in the hearts of die-hard fans but landing with something of a thud elsewhere. While the long-gestating Alita: Battle Angel never
Natasha Lyonne keeps coming back to life in the brilliant Russian Doll By Poppy-Jay Palmer 04-02-19 1,414 Format: Netflix Released: Out now Creator: Leslye Headland, Natasha Lyonne, Amy Poehler Cast: Natasha Lyonne, Charlie Barnett, Yul Vazquez, Greta Lee, Elizabeth Ashley, Brendan Sexton III, Dascha Polanco Distributor: Netflix If you like this, try… The Good Place
‘The friendship of a lifetime’ reads the tagline for DreamWorks’ latest How To Train Your Dragon instalment. Trilogy capper The Hidden World, it seemed to suggest, was going to be big on emotion and fans of the franchise everywhere started gearing up for a sob-fest. As the release date approached, writer-director Dean DeBlois confirmed that
M Night Shyamalan brings Unbreakable and Split together in the exposition-heavy Glass By Elena Lazic 17-01-19 4,657 Certificate: 15 Director: M Night Shyamalan Writer: M Night Shyamalan Cast: James McAvoy, Samuel L. Jackson, Bruce Willis, Sarah Paulson, Anya Taylor-Joy, Spencer Treat Clark Distributor: Universal If you like this, try… Watchmen A more interesting critique of
The comic arc titled ‘The Death of Superman’ and its aftermath were a sales gimmick; an event purely designed to shock — as DC opted to kill off its most idealistic (often mistaken for ‘boring’) character and attempted to replace the mild-mannered Clark Kent with someone more in vogue. It was a story made purely to
Hailee Steinfeld shines in wonderful 80s throwback Bumblebee By Katherine McLaughlin 22-12-18 347 Released: 24 December 2018 Certificate: PG Director: Travis Knight Writer: Christina Hodson Cast: Hailee Steinfeld, John Cena, Jorge Lendeborg Jr, Dylan O’Brien, Justin Theroux Distributor: Paramount If you like this, try… The Iron Giant A charming animated adventure set in the 1950s
Stephen King’s favourite cursed small town confronts more evil in Castle Rock By Jonathan Hatfull 22-12-18 1,308 Released: Out now Certificate: 15 Creator: Sam Shaw, Dustin Thomason Cast: André Holland, Melanie Lynskey, Bill Skarsgård, Sissy Spacek, Jane Levy, Scott Glenn Distributor: STARZPLAY If you like this, try… Channel Zero Still seemingly flying under the radar,
Emily Blunt and company thrill in Mary Poppins Returns By Amanda Keats 21-12-18 2,722 Released: Out now Certificate: PG Director: Rob Marshall Cast: Emily Blunt, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Ben Whishaw, Emily Mortimer, Julie Walters, Colin Firth, Meryl Streep, Dick Van Dyke Distributor: Disney Emily Blunt takes up the umbrella for this Mary Poppins sequel in which
Sandra Bullock leads a starry cast terrified of an outside threat in the film of Josh Malerman’s Bird Box By Elena Lazic 14-12-18 902 Released: 21 December 2018 Certificate: 15 Director: Susanne Bier Writer: Eric Heisserer Cast: Sandra Bullock, Sarah Paulson, Trevante Rhodes, John Malkovich, Jacki Weaver, Danielle Macdonald Distributor: Netflix If you like this,
When DC announced that Aquaman would be the first of the second-tier Justice League characters to get his own movie – before The Flash, no less – there was some confusion. Aquaman? Really? Justice League didn’t help to reassure us that the film would work – the handful of underwater scenes in that movie were…
There’s an awful lot to digest in Mortal Engines. Adapted from Philip Reeve’s young adult novel of the same name, the dystopian adventure drama is set in a time where metropolises exist as gargantuan vehicles that roar across vast wastelands in search of smaller, more resourceful cities to swallow and steal from. While the domineering
A dark knight takes on a bent cop in zany Why Don’t You Just Die! (Papa, sdokhni) By Anton Bitel 30-11-18 8 Released: Tallinn Black Night Film Festival Director: Kirill Sokolov Cast: Vitaliy Khaev, Aleksandr Kuznetsov, Evgeniya Kregzhde, Mikhail Gorevoy, Elena Shevchenko Distributor: White Mirror Film Company If you like this, try… 2LDK (2003) Two
Liberated by Russians from the horrors of the concentration camps, eight orphans have been left in the care of adult Jadwiga (Danuta Stenka) at an abandoned palace deep in the Polish forest. Here, still reeling and scarred from their own experiences, they struggle to keep from the door a wolf of many forms: not just
Comic books and animated movies are clearly a match made in heaven, and yet we can’t remember ever seeing anything like Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse before. The scale of it, the visual inventiveness, the heart and the humour – this film is the closest we’ve yet managed to get to a comic book come alive.
The Hindi-language Tumbbad is a grotesque gothic allegory of corrupting colonialism and (maybe) liberation By Anton Bitel 25-11-18 271 Certificate: TBA Director: Rahi Anil Barve, Anand Gandhi, Adesh Prasad Writer: Mitesh Shah, Adesh Prasad, Rahi Anil Brave, Anand Gandhi Cast: Sohum Shah, Harish Khanna, Ronjini Chakraborty, Anita Date, Mohd Samad, Jyoti Malshe Distributor: Hulu, Eros
In Eddie Alcazar’s SF allegory of identity Perfect, the flaws are the point By Anton Bitel 25-11-18 1,100 Certificate: TBA Director: Eddie Alcazar Writer: Eddie Alcazar (story), Ted Kupper Cast: Garrett Wareing, Abbie Cornish, Courtney Eaton, Tao Okomoto, Maurice Compte, Martin Sensmeier, Leonardo Nam, Rainey Qualley Distributor: TBA If you like this, try… Beyond The
There’s something amusingly meta about the fact that American Horror Story’s latest season centres on the idea of foreseeing death and destruction and putting a plan in place to prevent it. As much as the anthology series has its loyal viewers that will tune every year, it seems fair to say that the show’s later
In the majority of post-apocalyptic stories, when there’s seemingly a lone survivor in the world, one of the major struggles the character tends to face is intense loneliness. I Think We’re Alone Now differs from most in the genre in that its lead is content in their solitude. When it turns out more of humanity’s
Here’s our review of sequel Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes Of Grindelwald By Abigail Chandler 15-11-18 1,566 Released: 16 November Certificate: 12A Director: David Yates Cast: Eddie Redmayne, Johnny Depp, Katherine Waterson, Jude Law, Ezra Miller Distributor: Warner Bros Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them ended with Johnny Depp’s Gellert Grindelwald being revealed and arrested;
Here’s our review of She-Ra And The Princesses Of Power Season 1, on Netflix now By Amy West 14-11-18 5 Released: Out now Certificate: PG Creator: Noelle Stevenson Cast: Aimee Carrero, Karen Fukuhara, AJ Michalka, Marcus Scribner Distributor: Netflix Adapted by comic artist Noelle Stevenson, She-Ra And The Princesses Of Power follows the 1980s hit
Luca Guadagnino pays homage to Dario Argento with his Suspiria remake By Elena Lazic 14-11-18 17 Released: 16 November Certificate: 18 Director: Luca Guadadigno Cast: Dakota Johnson, Tilda Swinton, Mia Goth, Chloe Grace Moretz, Angela Winkler Distributor: Mubi If you like this, try… Neon Demon Nicolas Winding Refn’s violent horror similarly focuses on women in
In The Nutcracker and the Four Realms, Clara (Mackenzie Foy) is mourning the death of her mother when she stumbles into another world filled with dolls who have come to life, only to learn that her mother was once their queen. She befriends Captain Phillip (Jayden Fowora-Knight) who accompanies her as she delves deeper into
A group of friends head to a mysterious Escape Room and face their own dark secrets By Jonathan Hatfull 29-10-18 721 Released: 29 October 2018 (VOD) Certificate: 15 Director: Will Wernick Writer: Noah AD Cast: Evan Williams, Annabelle Stephenson, Elisabeth Hower, Dan J Johnson Distributor: The Movie Partnership If you like this, try… The Laplace’s
The talking cat, goofball comedy of 90s TV show Sabrina the Teenage Witch is a world away from what Chilling Adventures of Sabrina showrunner, and Archie Comics CCO, Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa has created; he clearly thinks we’re tough enough to handle it. That’s not to say that his Sabrina lacks comedy – there’s plenty of dry, dark
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