You’re a young man, you struggle to keep a roof over your head and support two young kids and an ex-wife’s child support in 21st century Texas. Enter your brother, an ex-convict with a history of bank robberies and a penchant for breaking the law — this is Hell Or High Water, the story of two brothers who must pay off their family ranch before it’s seized by the bank.
Ron Howard directs Tom Hanks for the third time as the character Robert Langdon, in what feels like an obligatory adaptation of Dan Brown’s novel, Inferno.
Windsor typeface, lavish costumes and soft jazzy melodies greet audiences like an old, inviting friend. Café Society, which pays homage to the style and art decor of 1930s New York and Los Angles, has everything an Allen fan expects to see when they head to the cinema to catch his latest film.
The film adaptation of Paula Hawkins’s bestseller The Girl on the Train has attracted plenty of buzz, no least because the novel has been compared endlessly to the feministic whodunit Gone Girl. But the comparisons end there. David Fincher’s adaptation of the aforementioned film packed a sadistically twisty, darkly humorous punch. Tate Taylor’s The Girl on the Train, however? Well, it essentially fails at providing audiences with a similarly satisfying proverbial blow to the gut.
Boys in the Trees is an Aussie film that tries to break the mould of a straight-up drama with elements of fantasy and horror, but ends up being a hit-and-mostly-miss bag of results in what could have ultimately been a good film.
Francofonia is part documentary, part historical drama and part biography, that recounts the events surrounding the Louvre museum under Nazi-occupied Paris.
If you thought the bird cinema season was over with The Angry Birds Movie, the infamous meme movie that actually got the endorsement of KKK and neonazis, Warner Brothers’ Storks has come to right any and all the wrongs, making a lovable animation a studio like Sony wishes it could make.
The classic western, a dying genre, finally has a film that might bring it back to life with Antoine Fuqua’s The Magnificent Seven.
After suffering a personal tragedy, Jake (Asa Butterfield) begins uncovering a mystery that leads him to a house in Wales full of peculiar people.
In what should be a compelling story that reveals one of the US government’s biggest secrets at the hands of Edward Snowden is heavily weighed down with some poor pacing and confusing computer jargon that leaves the viewer scratching their head.
Well, here we are again. Yet another Bridget Jones sequel. If you detect a hint of exasperation in that previous sentence, then I applaud you for your acute observational skills. How many sequels does a rom-com need before it can be retired for good? For what it’s worth though, Bridget Jones’s Baby is not completely terrible.
Pete’s Dragon. A remake. A reimagining. A tear-jerker. A disappointment.
Sunset Song is a heart-wrenching character study of love, loss, abuse and courage set around a Scottish family in the early 1900’s that unfolds through the eyes of Chris Guthrie, the eldest and only daughter of a family of six.
The Red Turtle is a dialogue-less animated film with deep symbolic themes and beautiful animation, though some might find it hard to get through.
After finding a video he believes to be of his missing sister Heather, James and his friends venture into the same woods she disappeared in.
Trash Fire is an uncomfortable and sometimes amusing film that will have you hating all of the characters, while keeping you glued to the screen.
