Category: Reviews

Film Reviews

Spotlight (2015) Mini Review

“Sometimes it’s easy to forget that we spend most of our time stumbling around the dark. Suddenly, a light gets turned on and there’s a fair share of blame to go around. I can’t speak to what happened before I arrived, but all of you have done some very good reporting here. Reporting that I…

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Grimsby Review

Grimsby is a dumb film. So, so dumb. Incredibly dumb.

X-Men: Apocalypse Review

After the stylish, swinging ’60s romp of First Class, and the time travelling, groovy ’70s/futuristic mix of the franchise reinventing Days of Future Past, the X-Men are off to the ’80s for Apocalypse….and they haven’t aged a day over three decades it seems.

The Witch Review

An Intensely staring rabbit. A witch in the woods. One hell of a creepy goat. So is life in 17th century New England.

High-Rise Review

High-Rise shares a lot of commonalities with Snowpiercer (2014). Both see the downtrodden rising up against the rich and oppressive. Both are set in a dystopian version of Earth. And both are brutally dark and anarchic. But whilst Snowpiercer builds to a satisfying and spectacular close, High-Rise stumbles in its third and final act where at…

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Meet The Patels (2014) Mini Review

“You know that girl in Eat, Pray, Love? She goes through a break up, goes on the existential journey to India to get over depression, find out what she really wanted in life? I was that girl. Except, my family was with me the entire time.”

Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (2015) Mini Review

“So if this was a touching romantic story this is probably where a new feeling would wash over me and suddenly we would be furiously making out with the fire of a thousand suns. But this isn’t a touching romantic story.”