UK Release Date – 5th August 2016 This sickly-sweet French romantic comedy never quite knows what approach to take with its subject matter, but is strengthened by two consummate lead performances by Jean Dujardin and Virginie Efira. Up For Love (French title Un homme à la hauteur), directed by Laurent Tirard, is a straightforward love…
Read More UK Release Date – 27th July 2016 Jason Bourne is an uninspired re-tread buoyed by an almost incessant supply of tense, well-executed action sequences. The fifth entry in the Bourne franchise includes the much-vaunted return of Matt Damon, having been absent for the tepid fourth film, The Bourne Legacy. Damon brings his typical hard-edged physicality…
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Read More Neither a dud worthy of the torrent of criticism sparked by the trailer, nor a classic on par with the original, Paul Feig’s Ghostbusters reboot provides enough fun to vindicate its own production.
Read More Roland Emmerich’s ‘Independence Day: Resurgence’ is predictably vapid, emotionally tone-deaf, and the dizzying orgy of CGI does little to mask its glaring missteps.
Read More When Marnie Was There, as with much of Ghibli’s oeuvre, has the feel of a fairy-tale. Adapted from an English novel of the same name by Joan G. Robinson, When Marnie Was There shifts the setting from Norfolk to rural Japan, a manoeuvre pulled off with a surprising deftness. The story centres on Anna, a…
Read More The Nice Guys, a pseudo-noir buddy comedy from director Shane Black, pairs world-weary Russell Crowe with a dishevelled Ryan Gosling in a partnership which effervesces with comic chemistry. The film feels in many ways a successor to Black’s 2005 effort, the sharp, funny, and deconstructive Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang. Crowe and Gosling are every bit…
Read More The latest film from Boyhood director Richard Linklater, Everybody Wants Some follows a group of college baseball players in the days leading up to the start of the academic year. There is little in the way of dramatic tension as the story tends to bounce around from party to party, with the only real dramatic…
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