Film Review

Alas, poor Tag. It tries hard, and I know it means well. It’s based around a rather lovely quote (“We don’t stop playing because we grow old. We grow old…

Beware the curse of the gerund. With just a couple of exceptions (Roger Avary’s Killing Zoe comes to mind), two- and three-word titles where the first word ends in -ing…

Who exactly is the spinning man? Is it related to spinning a yarn, which Evan (Guy Pearce) may be doing when he claims he had nothing to do with a…

Say what you like about Incredibles 2 – and what can you say? it’s… incredible – but it’s clearly the work of one man, as opposed to a committee. Some…

It’s a good week for female ensembles at the cinema. Whatever the reason (World Cup counter-programming?), the estrogen is strong in this one, whether it’s girl gangs or ladies who…

Are dinosaurs cute? Well, they’re no bunny rabbits. Scaly, bony, lizard-looking creeps is more like it. Still, little boys feel a certain affection for the dinosaur toys on their bedroom…

There’s a semi-sweet moment in the latest human-meets-natural-disaster yarn from Hollywood that really stuck with me after the final credits rolled. It happens while the film’s two central lovers gaze…

Nothing’s as unfashionable as yesterday’s fashions. For about a decade, following the success of Pulp Fiction (1994) in the States and Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998) in Britain,…

Critics are generalists; fans are obsessives. It’s a truism, but that doesn’t make it any less true. My interest in Star Wars is roughly on a par with my interest…

News arrives that Avengers: Infinity War is now the fifth-biggest film of all time (unadjusted for inflation), having made $1,638 million in the three weeks since it came out; another…