Review: ‘IT Chapter Two’
It could be argued that 2017’s IT movie was lightning in a bottle, releasing at a time when the internet’s fascination with scary clowns was at an all-time high, while also capitalising […]
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Review: ‘Midsommar’
A review of Midsommar, the new movie from Hereditary director Ari Aster starring Florence Pugh and Will Poulter.
Box Office: March 2019 Winners and Losers
March was something of a roller coaster ride for Disney, with the mega studio claiming both the biggest hit and the biggest flop of the month. That’s likely to become […]
Box Office: Happy Death Day to ‘Alita: Battle Angel’
The North American box office had a remarkably quiet few days, producing the lowest grossing President’s Day weekend in fifteen years. It wasn’t through lack of trying either, with three […]
Box Office: ‘Lego Movie 2’ Underwhelms, Liam Neeson Survives
Despite consistently positive reviews from critics, the Lego Movie franchise has faced a series of diminishing returns since it debuted back in 2014. That trend continued over the weekend as The Lego […]
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 […]
Box Office: January 2019 Winners and Losers
As is often the case with January, it was a relatively slow month at the North American box office. Long regarded as a dumping ground for movies that studios had […]
Ranked Worst to Best: 2018 Movies
Tradition dictates that at the end of the year any critic worth their salt should (nay, must) throw together a list of the top ten movies they saw in the last […]
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 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: ‘IT’ (2017)
Twenty-seven years have passed since the previous adaptation of Stephen King’s IT, and all those familiar with the source material will know what that means: Pennywise the Dancing Clown has […]
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 […]
