Review: ‘Fast & Furious: Hobbs and Shaw’
There are two reasonable expectations to have before going into Hobbs and Shaw: it’s going to be loud and it’s going to be dumb. Those aren’t necessarily bad things either, given […]
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Review: ‘Happy Death Day 2U’
Happy Death Day 2U must be given credit for how it meaningfully develops on the premise of its predecessor. Many slasher sequels settle for being an inferior rehash of the events […]
Review: ‘Velvet Buzzsaw’
For all the crap that Netflix churns out on a weekly basis, Velvet Buzzsaw is a triumphant reminder that when the streaming service delivers, it really delivers. Writer-director Dan Gilroy reunites with […]
Review: ‘Glass’
A critical review of M. Night Shyamalan’s ‘Glass’ starring James McAvoy, Samuel L Jackson, Bruce Willis and Saeah Paulson.
Mission: In Retrospect – ‘Ghost Protocol’
This retrospective on the Mission: Impossible film series starts with the fourth installment. A strange choice you may think, but Ghost Protocol is a far better representation of the franchise’s current form than any […]
Review: ‘Solo: A Star Wars Story’
Contains minor spoilers. No film franchise is viewed with quite as much sentiment as Star Wars, and the strong emotive power of the series is easy to get sucked into. I […]
Review: ‘A Quiet Place’
The primary gimmick of A Quiet Place is, as the title suggests, that none of the characters can make noise lest they meet a nasty end in the jaws of […]
Review: ‘The Commuter’
Liam Neeson has been busy over the last decade portraying a plethora of tough Irishmen each with a very similar set of skills which mostly involve punching people. The Commuter […]
Review: ‘The Cloverfield Paradox’
The Cloverfield franchise has found success in the past with its small-scale accounts of an alien invasion, but sadly this attempt at launching into more ambitious sci-fi territory falls flat on […]
Review: ‘Mother!’
Perhaps the best thing that can be said about Mother! is that it is completely unique. The number of jump-scares in its exhausting two-hour run-time can be counted on one hand, and […]
Review: ‘Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets’
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets kicks off with a montage appropriately set to David Bowie’s ‘Space Oddity’, a song title which also functions as a two-word description of […]
Review: M. Night Shyamalan’s ‘Split’
After nosediving with a string of critically panned movies, the career of M. Night Shyamalan seemed for a moment to be a lost cause. However, over the last few years […]
