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The Kitchen Review: If You Can’t Stand the Mediocrity…

Jason Gorber — Mon, 12 Aug 2019 16:00:05 +0000

It gives no pleasure to convey how middling The Kitchen is. The film just lays there limp and lifeless, trying desperately to inject some interest for the audience. Its dullness is almost impressive, as if it would be harder to make a film this meandering than to take the genre elements, throw in some action...

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The Little Stranger Review: This Old Spooky House

Deirdre Crimmins — Thu, 06 Sep 2018 15:00:13 +0000

It has come to be a cliché to say that a building, such as a house, is a character within a film. However, in a haunted Gothic horror like The Little Stranger, the possibility of the house acting of its own accord is a big part of what makes the movie so great. The house...

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‘Peter Rabbit’ Review: Beatrix Potter Plus Slapstick

Philip Brown — Fri, 09 Feb 2018 13:00:04 +0000

In the wake of the whimsical joy of the irresistibly charming ‘Paddington’ movies, along comes ‘Peter Rabbit’, another classic British children’s yarn due for an update. Unfortunately, the folks behind this movie opted to take a different direction, and made an almost inexplicably meta and faux-irreverent slab of slapstick comedy that won’t please either the...

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‘Goodbye Christopher Robin’ Review: Dark Pooh

Philip Brown — Thu, 12 Oct 2017 19:00:11 +0000

The concept of a bio-pic about the creation of Winnie the Pooh sounds like the most maudlin movie imaginable. What makes ‘Goodbye Christopher Robin’ watchable is the surprising darkness surrounding the joyous creation of Pooh, Tigger, Piglet and the 100 Acre Wood. Domhnall Gleeson stars as Alan Milne, a popular comedic playwright and member of...

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‘American Made’ Review: Cruise out of Control

Philip Brown — Thu, 28 Sep 2017 16:00:39 +0000

The pairing of Tom Cruise and director Doug Liman previously delivered the unjustly ignored (then justly rediscovered) ‘Edge of Tomorrow’, a delightfully clever sci-fi action epic. Now they’ve made ‘American Made’, a film that’s difficult to describe but thoroughly entertaining and righteously cynical about American values and Cruise’s onscreen persona (which were once one and...

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‘The Revenant’ Review: Beautifully Plodding

Philip Brown — Wed, 06 Jan 2016 17:00:53 +0000

By now, you’ve likely heard endless tales about how difficult it was to make ‘The Revenant’. Those stories are true and the danger and difficulty of the shoot bleeds onto the screen like a glossy Herzog deathtrap. However, the movie is also difficult to watch in ways both good and bad. Sure, the story is...

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‘Brooklyn’ Review: Pleasant but Drippy Sentimentalism

Philip Brown — Fri, 20 Nov 2015 15:00:54 +0000

‘Brooklyn’ is a nice and sweet, if unadventurous, movie. It’s very much a genre piece, one of those period coming-of-age stories filled with pretty costumes, handsome performers, clear emotional arcs, hanky moments, and a central performance designed to court award statues. It’s the sort of thing that viewers who only watch a couple of dramas...

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‘Ex Machina’ Review: A.I. with Emphasis on the Intelligence

Philip Brown — Thu, 23 Apr 2015 19:00:38 +0000

Exploring the potential perils of artificial intelligence is sci-fi conceit almost as old as the genre itself. Yet it still seems fruitful for retellings as we inch closer towards that fictional concept becoming a reality. Alex Garland’s ‘Ex Machina’ is a creepy, clever and terse rendition of the ol’ A.I. chestnut that works really damn...

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Now Playing: Luke’s Vote for Best Picture

Luke Hickman — Fri, 01 Nov 2013 13:00:45 +0000

It’s about time that a film this year is worth raving about! Here it is, gentlemen – another fine romantic comedy that guys can love and appreciate just as much as the women in our lives. ‘About Time’ is an epic film whose grandeur expands beyond the simple “rom-com” label. It encompasses every aspect of...

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