Burial
World War II is some of the most heavily trodden ground in cinema history. And it can still be fertile ground for storytelling, as the relatively recent Their Finest and [...]
Breaking
Though anchored by good performances, especially by lead actor John Boyega, Breaking is a film which struggles to get its message across. The film has social and societal parallels available, [...]
Three Thousand Years of Longing
The first film since George Miller made a monumental critical and commercial splash with Mad Max: Fury Road just 7 years ago, Three Thousand Years of Longing features all the [...]
Beast
There are very few movies that can be sold entirely on one image. While said image can be an honest reflection of the film itself, it can often be highly [...]
Orphan: First Kill
Rhoda the Bad Seed, Damien, Regan, The Grady Twins, The Children of the Corn and a multitude of others. Creepy children are a long-standing tradition of horror cinema. When Orphan [...]
Fall
Fall is equal parts thrilling and engaging so long as the viewer accepts the type of movie they are watching. Scott Mann’s latest film is a minimalist one with enough [...]
Sharp Stick
Sharp Stick, Lena Dunham's first feature since her 2010 breakthrough indie darling Tiny Furniture, is a fearless sex comedy that plays like an inferior episode of Girls, Diablo Cody wannabes, [...]
Spin Me Round
While there are many laughs that last throughout the course of the running time in Spin Me Round, the fifth film from writer-director Jeff Baena (Horse Girl, The Little Hours, [...]
Rogue Agent
People, on the whole, can be gullible – they want to believe a good story. Particularly if there is something exciting in it which gives them a chance to transcend [...]
Emily the Criminal
Emily the Criminal is a gripping neo-noir film that explores a human story of desperation beneath the surface, looking beyond the modern-day desperations of a debt nation and the horrors [...]