Film review: T2 Trainspotting ***
Sick Boy may be right, I suppose: “Nostalgia, that’s why you’re here! You’re a tourist in your own youth”. Sick Boy goes by Simon nowadays (it’s his real name, after…
Sick Boy may be right, I suppose: “Nostalgia, that’s why you’re here! You’re a tourist in your own youth”. Sick Boy goes by Simon nowadays (it’s his real name, after…
It’s a bad week for icons at the multiplex; the Trainspotting guys are middle-aged failures and Logan (Hugh Jackman) is even more decrepit. The mutant also known as Wolverine, star…
The way people talk is essential to Hell or High Water. “If you see anyone lookin’ a little sideways, give me a call,” drawls Texas Ranger Marcus Hamilton, seeking information…
Never mind a cure for wellness, Gore Verbinski needs a cure for pell-mellness. The trailer for this new film by the director of The Ring and Pirates of the Caribbean…
Matthew McConaughey lost a ton of weight for Dallas Buyers Club, and won an Oscar. Now he’s gained a ton of weight for Gold – and maybe he should win…
I don’t know whose idea it was to spend the last 20 minutes of The Lego Batman Movie on Batman learning that there’s no ‘I’ in ‘team’, nothing beats being…
China is the new Eldorado, and likely to remain so unless Mr. Trump starts a trade war (and even if he does). The country, with its vast multiplex boom, is…
The excellent Nocturnal Animals is dark, gritty and psychologically violent but also seriously stylish and intense; a modern-day film noir with David Lynch / Stanley Kubrick influences only with a…
Like its namesake, Lion is a gorgeous beast of a film – fierce, beautiful, elegant and incredibly powerful. Lion digs its claws into you from the offset and won’t let…
Vin Diesel is like Gretchen in Mean Girls, trying to make ‘fetch’ happen (as in “That is so fetch!”) when it’s obviously not going to happen. Diesel’s own particular ‘fetch’…