Hard-partying Bad Moms is night out for your brain
If you’re anything like me, the last thing you want to watch after last week’s bitterly divisive US presidential election is a d... Continue Reading
IFE Film Review
Scandal and disco reign supreme in The Nice Guys
Believe it or not, writing a great, truly original action movie is really hard. And though The Wachowskis (The Matrix trilogy, Jupiter Ascen... Continue Reading
Spielberg transforms The BFG into BFD for film fans
Not including 2011’s fun, hugely-underrated computer animated The Adventures of Tintin, Steven Spielberg hasn’t directed a prope... Continue Reading
Girl-powered Ghostbusters amply gets the job done
The virulently misogynistic political climate being what it is in the US at the moment, it’s no wonder that an all-woman reboot of a b... Continue Reading
Humanoid cockroaches on Mars bring bug battle fun
When it comes to bigscreen adaptations of hugely popular manga comics, they don’t come much bigger or weirder than the bugs from Mars ... Continue Reading
Shark vs. surfer sleeper The Shallows dives deep
Ever since that poor, doomed skinny dipper was eaten alive in the opening scene of the original Jaws, no great (or more appropriately, not s... Continue Reading
The Huntsman: Winter’s War is so bad it’s good
Chris Hemsworth might not be the greatest actor on the planet, but, love him or hate him, the dude is charismatic as all get out. And Hemswo... Continue Reading
Edgy indie The Lobster is bound for classic status
Yorgos Lanthimos has only made a handful of films, 2009’s Oscar-nominated Dogtooth being one of them, but already his name is being ba... Continue Reading
Roommates Wanted is frothy but flawed French fun
Great French comedies are like chocolate soufflés, if baked to perfection they have a light, airy quality that warms the soul like so much m... Continue Reading
Sully is tense, gripping and deeply moving from nose to tail
Most of the movies I review here hold up pretty nicely on a tiny seatback IFE screen or an even smaller PED – I watched The Little Pri... Continue Reading
Into the Forest is a fiery, feminist manifesto
When it comes to stark, post-apocalyptic dramas, female characters tend to have a pretty rough go of it, with most of them being raped, kill... Continue Reading
Gangsta kitten heist Keanu is almost purrfect
Whether you subscribe to writer Georges Polti’s time-honored theory that are only thirty-six dramatic situations in all of literature ... Continue Reading
Marital drama 45 Years will leave you shattered
Fans of brooding English relationship dramas will surely relish the chance to wallow in the existential malaise of 45 Years for a couple of ... Continue Reading
McCarthy cooks up fun in half-baked The Boss
Long before she became a household name by scoring an Oscar nomination for her scene-stealing turn in Bridesmaids and taking home an Emmy fo... Continue Reading
The Little Prince is animated poetry in motion
Since its publication in 1943, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s hugely-popular, French-language novella The Little Prince (Le Petit Prince) ... Continue Reading
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