Film Review

Nothing in American Made is actually American-made: not the guns, which are Russian Kalashnikovs, nor the drugs, which are made in Colombia. The American genius comes in combining drugs and…

You gotta love Gerard Butler. Actually you don’t, you may find him obnoxious and beyond the pale – but at least you have to appreciate that he’s deeply unfashionable. He’s…

The place is Berlin. The time is November 1989, the fall of the Wall. The 80s songs on the soundtrack are moody, dramatic and sometimes German: ‘Major Tom (Völlig Losgelöst)’,…

How did this get so ugly? The trailer made it look quite jolly – and the bar, after all, is pretty low: get two specialists in combustible exasperation, Samuel L.…

Quentin Tarantino – who gets a thank-you in the closing credits – famously opined that the scenes of violence in his films should be viewed like the dance numbers in…

Looks like the journey/destination problem in horror has been solved, or at least resolved. The problem is endemic to ghost stories – slasher movies don’t suffer from it – and…

Maybe I’m too cynical for Stratton. Maybe we all are. Or maybe it’s just a bad movie. John Stratton (Dominic Cooper) is a cruder James Bond, lighter on the quips…

The Dark Tower stands at the centre of the universe, but “the mind of a child can bring it down” says an opening caption. The mind of a child is…

What’s the protocol for reviewing remakes of well-known older films? I re-watched Don Siegel’s 1971 version of The Beguiled, starring Clint Eastwood and Geraldine Page, just a few days before…

We open in silence then bullets explode out of nowhere, splintering the silence. Five young soldiers run for their lives, down a silent Dunkirk street – but the bullets keep…