Bandersnatch is both a throwback to and is inspired by those classic ‘80s and ‘90s Choose Your Own Adventure games and books, and in a quiet nod to George Orwell, […]
‘Ocean’s 8’ drops all the men in favour of a scintillating cast of women. The new all-women setup puts a fresh perspective on this heist franchise. As you’d expect from […]
The Hate U Give opens with a father giving his children The Talk — not the birds and the bees, but the heartbreaking one parents of black children eventually must have […]
It all kicks off in a remote part of South East Asia, where guns-for-hire Devereaux (Michael Jai White) and Joey (Michael Bispeng) spring their remorseless leader Collins (Scott Adkins) from […]
Journeyman director Kevin Macdonald is a master at crafting dependably watchable dramas across a variety of genres. Like his compatriot David Mackenzie, he doesn’t make movies that are connected by shared […]
The first thing we see here is a restaurant worker bicycling home from work, only to be sideswiped by an SUV on a dark country road and left for dead. […]
Examining the cult of high-profile criminals Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow through the prism of two ageing lawmen hired to track them down, The Highwaymen is the opposite of 1967’s Bonnie And Clyde. […]
After seventeen years of subhuman conditions, the people in back are about to explode and Curtis (Chris Evans) is elected to lead the charge, albeit reluctantly. There have been failed […]
Back when Pulp Fiction ‘homages’ were all the rage, a young Charlize Theron made her mark as a fearsome, sexually aggressive schemer in 2 Days In The Valley, one of the very best of all […]
“The Laundromat” makes a pointed political statement, while spinning out a garbled mess of a movie. In the process, director Steven Soderbergh mostly squanders a cast top-lined by Meryl Streep, […]
Partly because of economics, partly because of a lack of imagination, Hollywood barely makes character-driven movies anymore. So there is a sense in which “Roman J. Israel, Esq.,” a wildly idiosyncratic drama […]
Mankind’s technological breakthroughs in the development of artificial intelligence and robotics has eventually lead to a global war. Afterward, the remnants of humanity struggle to survive in a post-apocalyptic wasteland […]
As a child, Charlotte (Allison Williams of Girls) was a master cellist but when her mother fell ill, she was forced to leave a prestigious academy to take care of […]
With the likes of James Bond dominating the box office, the genre of espionage has turned majorly into another branch of action flicks. The ones that don’t follow this glamorous path, the […]
There is nothing forgettable about this innovative dramatic thriller that superbly weaves together several genre threads to create something entirely unique. “Forgotten” (originally titled: “Gi-eok-ui Bam”) opens as a family […]
In 1978, John Carpenter’s ‘Halloween’ established the slasher genre of horror films, wherein a disturbed person or group of people use knives, hammers, & other such fun tools to hunt […]