Monster Fest: 3 From Hell (2019)
3 From Hell is that it doesn’t really have a substantial enough idea to justify returning to a decade-old franchise.
Hustlers Takes Gangster Movies All the Way to the Strip Club
Hustlers is not only a raucously entertaining riff on gangster tropes – it also has its own perspective.
I, Tonya Comes in Second Place to Scorsese
I, Tonya might be a love letter to disgraced former ice skater Tonya Harding, but it’s also a love letter to Martin Scorsese.
‘Silence’ Review: Martin Scorsese Is Messing With Us, But Is It Worth The Pain?
Silence subtly subverts the insidious narrative of meaningful misery that’s so ubiquitous in Western (and Christian) culture.
Burgers and Lies: The Founder Repackages the Corrupt Capitalism Biopic
The movie about a man who achieved success by stealing other people’s ideas borrows liberally from other films itself.
Margot Robbie and Selena Gomez Explain the Global Financial Crisis in The Big Short
“Truth is like poetry. And most people fucking hate poetry.” The above quote appears roughly midway through The Big Short, Adam McKay’s star-studded, irreverent take on 2008’s global financial crisis. It’s an effective encapsulation of a film that operates as the rare piece of ‘edutainment’ that’s both legitimately educational and entertaining while providing a self-reflexive…
Fifty Shades of Grey (2015)
A movie about sex – kinky sex – is in cinemas, and as a film critic, and therefore a noted arbiter of good taste (bear with me), I’m expected to regard this adaptation of a smutty bestseller with derision or, at best, suspicion. But let’s take a different tack, shall we? Why not approach the…
