I grew up with Pixar, that is to say it was in its infancy when I was born and its first slew of non-stop hits were released whilst I was still their key demographic. However, now, as I verge on adulthood, the company has begun to bring out sequels, prequels and spin offs to the…
Zootopia/Zootropolis (depending on where you are) is a great example of what Disney can do when it is on form. It is a fun, clever story with a deeper, and arguably more currently relevant, message than may be expected from the company. The film follows Judy Hopps (Ginnifer Goodwin), the first rabbit police officer in…
A film that should have been a huge event, looked forward to by the masses and guaranteed box office success, has instead arrived with a bit of a disappointing thud. Instead of exciting and thrilling, the film is very slow and often dull. This gives it an air of self-importance that alienates the audience. The…
Olympus Has Fallen was a film both enjoyed and criticised when it was released in 2013. When appreciated for what it truly was – a take-your-brain-out action film with obvious debts owed to Die Hard – it was an entertaining couple of hours full of tense action and fist-pumping moments. Its successor, however, doesn’t even…
The presence of Tom Hiddleston in Ben Wheatley’s latest film is bound to draw in some cinemagoers who would otherwise never have set foot in a screening room showing a film of this nature. It is likely to divide viewers depending on their taste in cinema, but those familiar with what to expect from Wheatley…
The Coen brothers have served up another bizarre comedy that you simply may ‘get’ or not. The film is effectively plotless aside from the basic premise that George Clooney’s pompous actor, Baid Whitlock, is kidnapped – a plot that contributes relatively little to an overall story. The film lives up to its name as a…
From its synopsis alone, How to Be Single is an unfortunate rarity; it is a comedy entirely focused around a group of female protagonists. It follows the quartet of the recently single paralegal, Alice (Dakota Johnson), her new, wild colleague Robin (Rebel Wilson), her older sister Meg (Leslie Mann), and Alison Brie’s Lucy. This set…
Every so often a film comes along which is hard to make your mind up about. It’s not that the film was middling, but that there were moments of absolute brilliance and moments where the energy diffuses into a tepid shallowness. This is the case with Luca Guadagnino’s A Bigger Splash (although the former wins out). The…
Triple 9 follows a group of corrupt policemen who commit bank robberies. After a heist doesn’t completely go to plan, Russian gang leader Irina Vlaslov (Kate Winslet) orders the group to pull of another one, to do which they plan to kill another cop (Anthony Mackie’s new partner, Casey Affleck) as a distraction. The film…
Deadpool. It seems the whole world now knows who that is despite never having heard of it a year ago. The incredible marketing campaign (one of the best I’ve ever seen, really – just google the posters) has built up a crazy amount of hype and the film certainly delivers what was promised. The film is…
