NOW FOR THE REVIEW… By all accounts, Brett Ratner’s Hercules should have been almost dead on arrival. Despite a charismatic lead actor in the form of Dwayne Johnson, nobody had faith that the guy who single-handedly derailed the X-Men franchise could deliver the...
NOW FOR THE REVIEW… If the 2011 franchise reboot Rise of the Planet of the Apes wasn’t enough to make you forget about Tim Burton’s infamously woeful remake ten years prior, then Dawn of the Planet of the Apes should throw all existing memory of it back into the...
DIRECTOR: Michael Bay NOW FOR THE REVIEW… By this point, you know exactly what you’re going to get from a Michael Bay Transformers movie: explosions, metal things hitting other metal things, explosions, awkward and sometimes insensitive attempts at humour, more...
DIRECTOR: Jim Mickle NOW FOR THE REVIEW… You have to admire director Jim Mickle’s sense of 80s nostalgia, on full display with his latest feature Cold In July. The terrible mullets, the synthetic soundtrack, the pulpy 80s thriller vibes – imagine the films of John...
DIRECTOR: Dean DeBlois NOW FOR THE REVIEW… By the five minute mark in How To Train Your Dragon 2, we’ve had instances of beautiful CG atmosphere, an exciting and fun action sequence, and an uplifting flying scene involving a young man with his magnificent flying pet...
NOW FOR THE REVIEW… Boyhood is a very special movie for audiences. Not only because it’s taken a unique and unmatched approach to its storytelling (except for maybe Michael Winterbottom’s Everyday), not only because it grounds its situations and characters so firmly...
DIRECTORS: Phil Lord and Chris Miller NOW FOR THE REVIEW… The successful comedic revitalisation of crime TV series 21 Jump Street back in 2012 caught everyone by surprise, particularly because everyone had assumed it would be dead on arrival before even seeing it....
DIRECTOR: Robert Stromberg NOW FOR THE REVIEW… In 1996, a live-action remake of Disney’s 101 Dalmatians made its debut, featuring Glenn Close as the iconic villain Cruella De Vil. Not much is remembered about that particular version, except for Close’s vampy and...
DIRECTOR: Hossein Amini NOW FOR THE REVIEW… In our recent interview with writer-director Hossein Amini – of which you can read here – he talks about how he read Patricia Highsmith’s novel The Two Faces of January at university and decided that it would be the first...
DIRECTOR: Gareth Edwards NOW FOR THE REVIEW… Let’s clarify the first thing you’re all anxious to hear: no, there is no Matthew Broderick standing around looking stupid and saying horrible lines like this: [youtube id="XIgbPTBINhk?feature=oembed" allow="accelerometer;...