Word travels slow in News of the World
Tom Hanks puts the ‘man’ in ‘anchorman’.
Category Archive: film
Pixar rolls the dice with Onward
Field of Dreams meets Dungeons and Dragons in Pixar’s latest.
The best films of 2019
Over the past year at the movies it got personal.
Crime after crime
A late-career masterwork.
Is Joker a big troll?
We’ve perfected the art of giving things the attention they don’t deserve.
The Walking Deadpan
The Dead Don’t Die is a zany genre trip.
Godzilla remains a political monster
A blockbuster with a political pulse.
Rocketman: a musical desperate to break out
Hold me closer tiny song and dance numbers.
The Poké-Noir of Detective Pikachu
Grounded in a world of cute totem creatures with its buddy cop premise but the sins of video game films lurk.
The End is Inevitable in Avengers: Endgame
A magnificent mortality fable across time.
Shazam! Adventures in Superhero-ing
The DC Comics stable of superheroes have finally found a groove
The Lifestyles of the Rich and Ruthless in All the Money in the World
Greed is good if you’re a Getty.
The Best Films of 2017
This year was exhausting but the films weren’t.
Pig Little Lies
To live in a capitalist culture, you have to live a lie, that’s the gambit of the brilliant Okja.
The gods and monsters of Alien: Covenant
Leverages the franchise’s canon into bold, existential ideas about artificial intelligence and the relationship between gods and monsters; fathers and sons.