The New Mutants is the last movie in the current X-Men series, a film that sees the superhero genre enter into horror territory. Dani Moonstar (Blu Hunt) is a teenager who awakes in a hospital where she’s told that her whole tribe had been killed and that she’s a mutant. In the hospital are four other mutants, Rahne […]
Film Reviews
Tenet Review
Cinemas around the world are starting to reopen and the big test for theatrical films is the release of Christopher Nolan’s Tenet. After a mission in Kyiv, an unnamed CIA agent (John David Washington) gets recruited by a secret organisation that gives him two leads, a hand gesture and the word “tenet.” The agent gets […]
Unhinged Review
Road rage: it is something that most people have suffered from at some time in their lives. The thriller Unhinged takes the experience of road rage to its nightmarish extreme. Rachel (Caren Pistorius) is a struggling single mother who’s often late, lost her business, and has an ex-husband demanding their house. When she’s late taking […]
The Professor and the Madman Review
The Professor and the Madman tells the story of an unexpected friendship between an Oxford academic and an American surgeon sentenced to Broadmoor and focused on how they helped each other. James Murray (Mel Gibson) is an expert in languages who gets the job of editing the New Oxford Dictionary. Murray is disliked by the old […]
Mortal Engines Review
Mortal Engines saw the return of Peter Jackson to blockbuster filmmaking with one of the most insane entries in the post-apocalyptic genre. In the future Earth has been devastated by the Sixty Minutes War. Because of this, towns and cities have become motorised with the biggest settlements preying on the smaller ones. London is one […]
Animals Review
Based on a novel by Emma Jane Unsworth, Animals is a Dublin set film about two women in their early 30s who have refused to give up a hard-partying lifestyle. Laura (Holliday Grainger) is a 32-year-old barista and aspiring novelist who lives with her best friend, Tyler (Alia Shawkat). They continue to drink heavily, party hard and […]
Damsel Review
Damsel is an indie Western that gives the genre a feminist twist. Samuel Alabaster (Robert Pattinson) arrives on American Frontier with the intent to propose and marry his sweetheart, Penelope (Mia Wasikowska). Samuel hires the local priest, Parson Henry (David Zellner) to travel into the wilderness to surprise Penelope. But Samuel reveals that Penelope had […]
Holmes & Watson Review
2018’s Holmes & Watson has earned a reputation for being one of the worst mainstream comedies made in recent years, ‘winning’ four Razzies. But does it deserve this reputation? Sherlock Holmes (Will Ferrell) is the most celebrated detective in London despite being a pompous arse. Holmes and his loyal assistant, John Watson (John C. Reilly) face their […]
True History of The Kelly Gang Review
Ned Kelly is a controversial figure in Australia who lived a life of crime and died at the age of 25. His story has been adapted to screen numerous times with the latest version being based on a novel by Peter Carey. True History of the Kelly Gang follows Ned Kelly both as a child […]
Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom Review
The fifth film of Jurassic Park series, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, was one of contrasts. The biggest being the conflict between a talented director and a terrible screenplay. Years after the events of Jurassic World the volcano on Isla Nublar is about to erupt and the dinosaurs would suffer a second extinction event. Claire Dearing (Bryce Dallas Howard) leads […]