Film review: Split **
I won’t describe the last few seconds of Split, but it’s fair to say they confirm it as a film by M. Night Shyamalan. Ever since making his name with…
I won’t describe the last few seconds of Split, but it’s fair to say they confirm it as a film by M. Night Shyamalan. Ever since making his name with…
The Great Wall Bye bye 2016, with its dubious referendums and celebrity deaths. Hello 2017, with its hoped-for healing and possible solution to the Cyprus problem – though also hello…
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Films based on videogames are never any good, but Assassin’s Creed has ideas above its station. It has Oscar-winning actors spouting lines like “Prepare the Animus!”. It has grave pronouncements…
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You can tell a lot about Moana from its comic relief. Comedy sidekicks in kids’ cartoons tend to be manic and excitable, from Timon and Pumbaa in The Lion King…
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Science fiction has the best premises. No surprise there; any genre based on impossible what-ifs is bound to wind up in some interesting places. What if interplanetary travel were possible,…