Roland Emmerich’s love of action and adventure in original stories is clear in his body of work. The Day After Tomorrow (2004), Godzilla (1998) and Independence Day (1996) point to a finely-honed sense of the dark and dangerous. Emmerich goes down a new path with Midway, the fact-based story of one of the key pacific theatre battles of WWII. Americans… View Post
Tim Miller’s Terminator: Dark Fate the direct sequel to 1991’s Terminator 2: Judgment Day, reunites Linda Hamilton and Arnold Schwarzenegger, a real kick for the T2’s many fans. Skynet, now known as Legion has sent a new superpowered Terminator (Gabriel Luna) from the future to kill Dani Ramos (Natalia Reyes) for the contributions she’ll make in the future in the human war against… View Post
Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe are well-matched in the curiously eccentric and utterly mesmerising The Lighthouse. Robert Eggers the genius behind the superlative supernatural drama The Witch puts the men in a lonely lighthouse off Nova Scotia standing in for New England, takes away their food supply, supplies generous amounts of whiskey, gives them hallucinations, drunken rages and brutal sea storms… View Post
Bong Joon-Ho’s nearly perfect, nerve-rattling comedy thriller Parasite is a shock to the system. It’s outrageous, comic, deadly serious and genre-bending, precise, poetic and mathematical, symmetrical in its construction, and deeply satisfying. It won this year’s Palme d’Or at Cannes, it’s South Korea’s entry for Best International Film at the Oscars and no kidding. Ki-taek Kim, his wife, son and daughter… View Post
Antonio Banderas plays Salvador, a version of his longtime collaborator, Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar in the exquisite Pain and Glory. He plays the adult version of a traumatised boy who went on to find release and expression as a successful film director. career is at a standstill, but he is asked to appear at the 30th anniversary celebration of his… View Post
Only two nights! Kevin Smith’s Jay & Silent Bob Reboot picks up where Kevin Smith and Jason Mewes left off – eighteen! – years ago, and they’ve rounded up one awesome cast, more on that later. The foul-mouthed, cannabis fogged film finds the boys heading to Hollywood when they hear that one of their early films is being rebooted. They want it stopped, so… View Post