Our Father is an entertaining, but somewhat trite crime film that reveals what can happen when a morally resolute individual gets in over their head.
Whenever Martin Scorsese and two-time Academy Award winning actor Robert De Niro link up, a masterpiece looms, and the 1976 Oscar-nominated film Taxi Driver is a fine example of that statement.
Flight Crew is a Russian disaster film that has you thinking you’ve seen this all before – until the final act, leaving you pleasantly satisfied in the end.
The second feature from fashion designer Tom Ford, Nocturnal Animals is a slick and beautiful insight into a world of regret, heartbreak and glamour.
A Paul Verhoeven film, like any other hardcore drug, hits with unforgiving force and leaves in quite an unexpected puddle. It’s the unsafe chemical hit you had no idea you needed.
When the events within a film are intensely complicated and heart-rendering, they will often be handled in one of two ways by filmmakers: with restraint, or with pure, ‘we need you to feel all the sad feels’ melodrama. For the most part, Derek Cianfrance’s adaptation of The Light Between Oceans falls under the latter category.
In American Honey, a teenage girl with nothing to lose joins a group of misfits who travel the country selling magazine subscriptions.
The last few years of horror has produced some noteworthy titles including It Follows, The Babadook, Don’t Breath and various other independent films that will be shown for generations to come. Unfortunately Queen of Spades falls into the direct-to-DVD category and will most likely stay put.
Marvel Films’ latest offering, Doctor Strange, is a much needed breath of fresh air in the studio’s seemingly never-ending slate of films.
In the vain of teen-comedy films like American Pie comes Good Kids, featuring a talented young cast, some laughs, and an all-round good time.
In 1965, a mother and her two daughters begin experiencing supernatural activity after a Ouija Board is brought home.
Ben Affleck shines in The Accountant, portraying a different type of super anti-hero, in an entertaining film bogged down by a few too many plot points.
Shin Godzilla, the first Japanese Godzilla film in over ten years is essentially a reboot of the original – a monster crawls out of the ocean, wreaking havoc on Japan.
Keeping Up with the Joneses is a run-of-the-mill action-comedy film, one that fails to excel at either action, or comedy.
Tom Cruise reprises his role in Jack Reacher: Never Go Back as a reluctant ex-military officer thrust into a world of government conspiracies… Yawn.
Mel Gibson returns to the director’s chair after 10 years and if any project is going to get him back into Hollywood’s good graces, then Hacksaw Ridge is it.
