In the junkyard of films you’ve already watched, and the backlog of recommendations one never seems to have time to sift through, some movies seem to rise from the wasteland with the more time that passes, and they cement themselves as monolithic precedents of the best of the genre – one such film is 2012’s horror-comedy, Grabbers.
Annihilation is a skillfully crafted sci-fi from the brilliant mind of Alex Garland, that will leave you seeking answers long after the credits have ended.
A Quiet Place sees a world populated by monsters that hunt by sound, where a family must live in silence to try and survive.
Steven Spielberg is the master of blockbuster filmmaking, and his latest, Ready Player One, is a clear example of how a big-screen, big-budget popcorn film should be done.
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.
Pacific Rim Uprising is a surprisingly competent sequel to what is essentially an over intellectualised apocalyptic ‘robot versus monsters’ movie.
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.
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.
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).
A mute, Amish bartender (Alexander Skarskård) must navigate the seedy underbelly of futuristic Berlin to track down his missing girlfriend.
Walt Disney World: The happiest place on earth – or so we thought.
