If you’re going to make a film that will likely insult an entire country, you’d better make certain it holds up. With Veep creator Armando Iannucci at the helm, along with a star-studded cast including comedy royalty in Michael Palin, The Death of Stalin should impress. But doesn’t. Instead, this British satire may be off-putting to even the most non-PC western audiences.
Blockers offers a new angle on the well-worn coming of age story about teenagers losing their virginity, exploring it from the parent’s perspective, with hilarious and at times ridiculous results.
The Endless is a sci-fi thriller/mystery about two brothers who return to a cult that they were once a part of when they were younger.
The newest trailer for Deadpool 2 sees the titular hero build a new group of super-powered team members known as X-Force.
Pacific Rim Uprising is a surprisingly competent sequel to what is essentially an over intellectualised apocalyptic ‘robot versus monsters’ movie.
Benicio Del Toro, Josh Brolin and writer Taylor Sheridan return for the follow-up to the highly acclaimed 2015 cartel crime thriller Sicario, in the new trailer for Sicario: Day of the Soldado.
A Plastic Ocean is an important documentary, exposing the devastating and wide reaching effects that mankind’s most prolific invention is having on the fragile eco-system of the oceans.
Over the past few weeks, I have frequented the movies enough to have seen the trailer for Ready Player One more times than I’d like to count.
Big Little Lies star Shailene Woodley’s latest project Adrift is a film about the resilience of the human spirit in the face of overwhelming odds.
Alicia Vikander, the Academy Award winner from 2015’s The Danish Girl, braves the cursed lands of video-game movies as Lara Croft in this delightful take on the iconic Tomb Raider franchise.
Marvel Studios’ superheroes unite in the latest trailer for Avengers: Infinity War, in what is their toughest challenge yet.
The first trailer for Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald has dropped, featuring a returning cast with some welcome new faces, which should please fans of the wizarding world.
I first discovered Tina Fey in the teen comedy Mean Girls (2004), back when I was pre-pubescent and lacked the mental capacity to comprehend what high school even was. I didn’t appreciate all that she is back in those fumbling years of my youth, but I do now.
Petra Biondina Volpe’s The Divine Order is a converstation starter, and a film with a touching sentiment at its core, but it leaves a lot of open questions and evokes the uneasiness of modern identity politics, by shying away from the complexities of our own age.
In the Fade features a powerful portrayal from Diane Kruger, of the devastating damage caused by terrorists to those left behind.
12 Strong is Hollywood’s annual patriotic blockbuster; this film fits in the same category as movies like Lone Survivor (2013), 13 hours (2016) and American Sniper (2014).
