Film review: Pacific Rim: Uprising **
How big was Pacific Rim, really? Do we even know? The internet reports that the sci-fi monster movie from five years ago – directed by this year’s Oscar winner, Guillermo…
How big was Pacific Rim, really? Do we even know? The internet reports that the sci-fi monster movie from five years ago – directed by this year’s Oscar winner, Guillermo…
We’re all the same. That’s always been true, more or less, but it’s even more true for today’s young people, at least in the West. (Are they still millennials? Post-millennials?…
If Mom and Dad were better, it might be unwatchable. This pitch-black, hyperactive horror comedy is feeble, underplotted, clunky, cacophonous – but the chaos offers some relief, a certain distance…
It’s been said before, but I think it may now be happening: the gross-out, often scatological humour that’s ruled big-studio comedies since the mid-90s may have finally run its course.…
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I was all set to write about Black Panther, a superior comic-book blockbuster in an excellent week for new releases – but then characters started arguing about a made-up metal…
No girl wants her boyfriend to smell of fish – but what if he actually is a fish? There are many reasons why a romantic relationship between a human woman…
First Daniel Day-Lewis announces he’s retiring from acting after Phantom Thread, now Liam Neeson says he won’t be doing any more action movies. (His excuse? “I’m sixty-f**king-five!”) What’s the world…