The Marvel machine groans and creaks along as it sacrifices consistent tone and characterisation for a quantity-over-quality comedic approach A couple months ago, when Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness came out, I asked in the title of my review if it was the best MCU film. Realistically it…

This biopic about the late King of Rock and Roll’s life fails to deliver a nuanced look at the singer, but certainly succeeds in being a Luhrmann film There are several points within Elvis’s first hour that use highly edited montages to convey the life of a young Mr. Presley…

The writer-director of Ex Machina and Annihilation with a film born of brutish simplicity Since he was still only known as a writer, Alex Garland had attempted to pen an abstract horror script for 15 years birthed from one of the core visuals in Men, the Green Man. That symbol…

Sam Raimi returns to the superhero genre after 15 years to shake up the world’s biggest and safest franchise with kills and thrills The Marvel Cinematic Universe has done roughly nothing for me in the three years since Avengers: Endgame came out. In retrospect, that was a perfect time to…

The latest from filmmaking duo Daniels is astounding just for how legible it is, let alone for the fact that it’ll also be one of the year’s best films What decisions have you made that led to where you are now? This is a question that we all ask, considering…

Matt Reeves’ entry into the Batman film canon is one of the best yet, paying homage to both Batman and cinematic history — Out of the gate, I will say that I am quite the Batman fan. I watched countless episodes of The Animated Series growing up. I watched the 2004 TV series The Batman, an inconvenient name in retrospect. I played Batman: Arkham City, maybe a little younger than I should have…

The latest from Ridley Scott wastes its excellent cast and potential to statically a real-life story, made all the more bitter by the comparative excellence of The Last Duel House of Gucci had been a point of excitement for me alongside a wide batch of other 2021 releases for a…

Edgar Wright’s first foray into horror is not without its value, but its utterly confused script drowns its positives There was a time not so long ago where I would’ve called Edgar Wright my favourite director. I am painfully aware of how terribly standard this opinion is for white guys…

In being the end to an inconsistent film series, No Time To Die is remarkable in its ability to close this Bond’s story When I was 11 and on holidays, I saw Skyfall in theatres. I can’t say I really understood it and barely remember the experience, bar the awkwardness…