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HIGH FANTASY
Four South African twenty-somethings of diverse racial backgrounds go on a camping trip into the country. Shot on a set of iPhones and largely improvised, they awake one morning to find they’ve switched bodies
ROCKETMAN – THOUGHTS FROM A MOST DEDICATED FAN
Rocketman is not a movie, at least not to me
ALADDIN
They blue it. No, not really, but Disney are back to cash in on our childhoods. Set, of course, in Agrabah, a Kingdom earnestly nondescript so as not to situate us in anything even remotely […]
JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 3 – PARABELLUM
These films are better the second you realise they don’t take place on earth. Yes it looks like our world but New York et al is merely the stage not the setting on which this […]
THE DRUMMER AND THE KEEPER
Casting matters. So does chemistry
FLOAT LIKE A BUTTERFLY
tinging like a bee, Float Like A Butterfly lands every hook we’ve come to expect from boxing flicks, while unlike almost any that’s made it to the big screen
DUBLIN OLDSCHOOL
An uncommon insight into the less-travelled avenues of Dublin
THE LONELY BATTLE OF THOMAS REID
Calling The Lonely Battle of Thomas Reid a documentary wouldn’t quite be fair
THE BURIAL OF KOJO
Sometimes simpler is better. The key event and surprise in The Burial of Kojo, which will be ruined for you if you read just about any description of the film, is not what the film […]
AVENGERS: ENDGAME
You don’t need to be told reminded that Avengers: Endgame is the biggest movie of the year, and the biggest comic book movie of all time
UNICORN STORE
Tone is a big thing. Switching things up can work, but when you do it all the time you’re on shakier ground
THE WILD BOYS
Visually captivating and ever in a constant state of flux, The Wild Boys’ thematic bona fides are just trying to keep up
THE NIGHT EATS THE WORLD
If you’re going to make a zombie movie today you really have to clamber above the pack
CRIME WAVE
A comedy of awful errors and even worse people, Crime Wave stumbles sparingly and when it finds it’s feet it lands
FREE SOLO
Very few films are ground-breaking in a visual, technical or narrative sense. To manage all three is a rare achievement, though not nearly so remarkable as Alex Honnold
CAPTAIN MARVEL
It’s fine. It’s nothing to get excited about, but it’s fine.
US
Everyone knows Jordan Peele wants to hold up a mirror to society; no one thought he’d take it so literally. Us, more than most films this year, will suffer from the weight of expectation. Get […]
WILD NIGHTS WITH EMILY
Recounting lesser-known events and their reasons for obscurity in the life of Massachusetts poet Emily Dickinson (Molly Shannon), Wild Nights With Emily takes a few less than conventional approaches
REVISITING MAGIC MIKE XXL
This author has never before written a second review for any film. But then there’s Magic Mike XXL
