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Icelandic filmmaker Baltasar Kormakur tackles his largest Hollywood project to-date, with this epically staged account of the 1996 Mount Everest disaster, in which eight climbers perished on the Himalayan peak… Read More
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Asia is terrifying. With its obscure languages, stifling humidity, tropical foliage, peculiar deities, dubious military regimes, weird food and proximity to historically hazardous war zones, American citizens would be insane… Read More
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Adam Sandler gets his hands on Patrick Jean’s excellent animated short and turns it into one of the year’s worst films. Listen to my review Read More
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For its big screen reboot of the classic 60s spy series, Warner Brothers is hoping Guy Ritchie can replicate the success of their earlier Sherlock Holmes adaptations, again favouring witty… Read More
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Ed Helms and Christina Applegate lead this part-reboot, part-sequel to the National Lampoon comedy, that is all terrible. Listen to my review Read More
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Tom Cruise recruits his Jack Reacher collaborator Chris McQuarrie to helm the fifth instalment of his death-defying spy saga, which this time sees Ethan Hunt and his loyal team of… Read More
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Channing Tatum returns for the stripper tour to end them all in this hugely entertaining sequel. Listen to my review Read More
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Formulaic perhaps as a superhero origin story, but packed with smart humour & fun character work, Ant-Man is a thoroughly unpretentious and entertaining edition to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Read More
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John Lithgow and Alfred Molina play an ageing gay couple in Ira Sachs’ delightful comedy drama. Listen to my review Read More
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The fifth instalment of the troubled sci-fi time travel series reveals itself to be a frustrating reboot-sequel hybrid, cherry-picking iconic moments from throughout the franchise and reworking them into a… Read More
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Known primarily for his war films and crime dramas, American director Samuel Fuller also directed a quartet of westerns, the last of which being 1957’s Forty Guns. Read my review Read More
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Proof that fine actors giving strong performances are not always enough to save a movie, Maya Forbes’ Infinitely Polar Bear seems too preoccupied with its 70s period setting and zany… Read More
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Perhaps best known as the film for which a ten-year-old Tatum O’Neal won herself a Best Supporting Actress Academy Award, Peter Bogdanovich’s Paper Moon is a beautifully constructed Depression-era caper… Read More
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Perhaps best known as the film for which a ten-year-old Tatum O’Neal won herself a Best Supporting Actress Academy Award, Peter Bogdanovich’s Paper Moon is a beautifully constructed Depression-era caper… Read More
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Hands up anyone else suffering from superhero fatigue? Marvel Studios isn’t solely to blame for this, but the sheer conviction and prolificity with which they have attacked their shared-universe building… Read More
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It is staggering to realise that, while featuring as a supporting or peripheral figure in numerous films, Selma is the first big-screen motion picture focused on Martin Luther King, Jr.… Read More
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Part two of the big screen adaptation of Veronica Roth’s bestselling series of YA sci-fi novels boasts a larger budget and sharper hairstyles than its predecessor, but remains incapable of… Read More
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Part two of the big screen adaptation of Veronica Roth’s bestselling series of YA sci-fi novels boasts a larger budget and sharper hairstyles than its predecessor, but remains incapable of… Read More
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