DIRECTORS: Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement NOW FOR THE REVIEW… Vampires have been the laughing-stock of the monster genre for some time now, mostly thanks to Stephanie Meyer and her warped view on teenage romance. We snigger when we think of them sparkling in the...
DIRECTOR: Craig Johnson NOW FOR THE REVIEW… You can add Bill Hader and Kristen Wiig to the ever-growing list of former Saturday Night Live cast members who have successfully made the successful leap into dramatic territory – though the likes of Bill Murray, Dan...
DIRECTOR: Christopher Nolan NOW FOR THE REVIEW… We can imagine a new drinking game being spawned from the ashes: try and talk about Christopher Nolan’s newest blockbuster Interstellar WITHOUT mentioning, referencing or comparing it to Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space...
DIRECTOR: Mike Leigh NOW FOR THE REVIEW… Over 150 years after his death, the great British painter J.M.W Turner can finally be paired with a worthy soul mate in the form of the great British filmmaker Mike Leigh. The latter’s ode to the life of the former, represented...
DIRECTOR: Dan Gilroy NOW FOR THE REVIEW… Abandon all hope, ye who enter here expecting some sort of spin-off movie revolving around a certain fan-favourite X-Men character. Instead, the exact opposite – Nightcrawler dives into a very dark area of modern media as well...
DIRECTOR: Jennifer Kent NOW FOR THE REVIEW… A genre that was once known for its iconic monsters and genuine frights has heartbreakingly been replaced with an overabundance of jump-scares, gore and cliché-ridden plot devices, so forgive us for being a little too...
DIRECTOR: Jamie Hooper
DIRECTOR: David Ayer NOW FOR THE REVIEW… Because it’s set during the Second World War, because Brad Pitt is headlining, and even because it opens with Pitt stabbing a horseback Nazi in the head, many would probably assume they’re in for an Inglourious Basterds-style...
DIRECTOR: David Dobkin NOW FOR THE REVIEW… For all intents and purposes, The Judge is a dad’s movie - we know that sounds like we’re stating the obvious, given it’s mostly about the reconnection of a father and son, but everything about this movie feels geared toward...
DIRECTOR: Jonathan Liebesman NOW FOR THE REVIEW… Of course it’s not going to be good. It never could be, at least not with the people behind it – Michael Bay as producer, the director of Battle: Los Angeles calling the shots, it was gearing up to be DOA as soon as it...