I’ve heard it said that movies come into our lives, for a reason bringing something we must learn… And Wicked: For Good is teaching us a point that we might already know – sequels are never as good. Wicked: For Good follows on seamlessly from the original story – we meet the popular public personas of Glinda the Good (Ariana Grande), and Fiyero Tigelaar (Jonathan Bailey) as they run e...
Historically, Keanu Reeves fans can be split into two camps: well-read scifi fans whose brain chemistry was permanently altered by the first time they watched The Matrix, and thoughtful stoners who still haven’t lost the high of seeing themselves represented for the first time on the big screen in Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure. Good Fortune, the new divine body-swap comedy, written, dir...
Two of the more formative moments in anyone’s life is losing someone close to you, and definitely fighting with your parents. Whether you’re regretting the epic showdown you had with your parents over getting a nose piercing in 2004, or genuinely touched after the loss of a parent, Regretting You, is sure to bring a tear to your eye, but in a very good way. Director Josh Boone brings his previous ...
Rom-coms are back, and they’re better than ever. The once cliché-ridden genre, popular only with hopeless romantics and teenage girls, gets a much needed update with the release of A Nice Indian Boy. Roshan Sethi brings us the magical love-story between two young men, Naveen (Karan Soni) and Jay (Jonathan Groff) who come from oddly similar backgrounds, but with stark differences that they must ove...
L’Histoire de Souleymane (or “Souleymane’s Story” in English) is a complex political storyline wrapped in a touching narrative of the titular Souleymane. Directed by Boris Lojkine, the story follows Souleyman, a Guinean food delivery driver in the heart of Paris, in the two days before he is due to be interviewed about his application for asylum. Since its debut in Un Certain Regard, it has ...
Sometimes films set out to be unpleasant and unsettling – putting their audiences in a state of discomfort ultimately drives them to a greater understanding of the overall subject matter, and for many art house films that works. However for Queer, an adaptation of the unfinished novella of the same name by the famed William Burroughs, the lack of follow through leaves the audience feeling well, ju...
There is nothing that quite compares to a tear-jerker or a good romance and We Live in Time seems to be already demonstrating its prowess in both categories. While it isn’t reinventing the genre, honestly it’s almost a cliché – the determined beautiful-but- quirky heroine marries the quiet, bookish male lead but shockingly develops a terminal illness somewhere in the narrative. However, the ...
Monster Summer is a nostalgic 90s horror flick that sets out to capture the attention of the whole family. It seems very rare that a ‘scary’ film actually pulls off a multi-generational appeal but director David Henrie and writers Cornelius Uliano and Bryan Schulz do just that: it’s spooky, fun and won’t give your children nightmares, well, too many. It’s sort of like The Goonies meets Scooby Doo....
I’ve heard it said that movies come into our lives for a reason, bringing something we must learn, and Wicked (Part 1). From the director that brought us In The Heights and the masterpiece that was Step Up 3D, Jon M. Chu, comes the much anticipated silver screen adaptation of the beloved musical of the same name. While part of the success of In The Heights comes from the raw and realistic slant to...
This is not your average superhero movie, this is not trying to be. This is violent, this is cringe, this is silly, this is fun. This is Venom. Hinted to be this iteration of Venom’s last hurrah, Venom: The Last Dance is co-written by director Kelly Marcel and lead actor Tom Hardy. Marcel has been the lead writer for the past two Venom movies and she maintains the same incredibly unique tone whil...
As a keen fan of the Hellboy films, I was thrilled when I heard that the franchise was getting another instalment with Hellboy: The Crooked Man. My excitement compounded with the news that the plot of the film was lifted directly from the Dark Horse Comic books by Mike Mignola, who co-wrote the screenplay with Christopher Golden and director Brian Taylor. Surely this delightfully detailed folk-hor...
Star-studded and stuffed with promise, The Critic should be a recipe for an engaging and delicious murder mystery but unfortunately its debut has been met with some pertinent critique of its own. Loosely based Curtain Call, a novel by Anthony Quinn, and directed by Anand Tucker, The Critic stars Sir Ian McKellen as Jimmy Erskine, a cruel queer critique of theatre, based at the Daily Chronicle, and...
