Nicolas Winding Refn is one unique filmmaker. After the critical and cult success of Drive (2011), one might have expected the director to start making traditional Hollywood features. Instead, he has continued to make small, niche films that have only…
Oh, Pixar. How do you disappoint me? Let me count the ways. Actually, there’s only one: The money grab. When you make movies like Monsters University and Cars 2 it is obvious that little effort was put in and you…
It seems as though the secret agent genre has been undergoing something of a resurgence recently, with titles like Kingsman: The Secret Service, Spy, The Man From U.N.C.L.E., Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation, Spectre and Bridge of Spies hitting cinemas…
If you’re a cinema aficionado, you probably have some idea of who director Brian De Palma is. Over his career, he’s had massive successes (Carrie, Dressed to Kill, The Untouchables, Mission: Impossible), some disasters (The Bonfire of the Vanities, Mission…
This week’s sequel is the follow up to one of the best horror films of the decade. The Conjuring was a highly effective fright film that captured the sensibility of 70’s horror. No real gore. No false jump scares as…
Well, at least it isn’t a sequel. In a summer full of follow-ups, the latest Hollywood blockbuster takes a different route and instead adapts a fantasy video game for the big screen… that may be as close as we get…
My grand-mammy used to always say “Opinions are like assholes; everyone else’s stinks but mine”. She was a mean lady. Yet those words ring in my head frequently as I write these reviews and that is true even more so…
The summer movie season has begun, so get ready for a barrage of sequels. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows is this week’s designated follow-up. It brings back the heroic chelonians (that’s a fancy word for turtles, folks!)…
Expectations are a funny thing. As a critic, we always try our best to come in without any preconceived notions of what we’re about to see. Still, we’d be lying if we didn’t admit that occasionally there is some bias…
Please note: The following review was compost on my iPhone using the voice-to-text feature. Any type-os have not been removed as I have decided to put about as much a fort into this review as the makers of Ex Mend:…