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…

The collapse of the world’s economy may not have been understood by all, but most certainly affected everyone. It may appear to be prime material for a dark, high-brow drama but it is actually a much more fitting and effective tone writer/director Adam Mackay has chosen: a comedy. Mackay’s telling is both funny and engaging,…

Carol is one of the most gorgeous films of last year, a stunning film both in its incredible cinematography and portrayal of a touching love story. The film, based on Phyllis Nagy’s novel The Price of Salt, follows the forbidden relationship between young shop clerk Therese (Rooney Mara), and the older, married Carol (Cate Blanchett).…

Brie Larson has been sweeping the awards circuit for her work in Room, and it’s not hard to see why. She and Jacob Tremblay are the emotional heart of this drama, and it is the believability of their characters and their relationship that really makes the film what it is. Room, based on the book…

Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s follow up to his Oscar-winning Birdman, is an exhausting spectacle that is both epic and intimate at the same time. It truly is a feast for the senses, and is the kind of film that is so involving, you feel as though you have personally suffered through the situation of the main…

Amy Poehler and Tina Fey’s latest team up brings a likeable comedy that will probably appeal to both teenagers and adults. The two comediennes play sisters who find out their childhood home is up for sale, and decide to have one last party to re-experience their teenage days. This set up takes its time, causing…