French writer-director Luc Besson returns to wild sci-fi territory with hot mess Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets. Valerian, the titular character of writer-director Luc Besson’s latest sci-fi […]

AN ANCIENT EGYPTIAN GODDESS HAS HER HEART SET ON BEING WITH TOM CRUISE IN THE TEDIOUS FIRST INSTALMENT OF THE “DARK UNIVERSE” FRANCHISE. In a refreshing change from the status […]

It’s women to the rescue for the DC cinematic universe, as Gadot and Jenkins deliver a tentpole that could break the glass ceiling. “Be careful in the world of men, […]

IN BEN YOUNG’S CHILLING, AMBITIOUS AND IMPRESSIVE DEBUT, HOUNDS OF LOVE, VICTIMS COME IN ALL FORMS. BY NICK MILLIGAN A methodical and glacial slow tracking shot opens the debut film […]

Master director Ridley Scott bounces back from Prometheus mess with cohesive, tense instalment of Alien franchise. By Nick Milligan Prometheus, British director Ridley Scott’s grand return to not only the science fiction genre but […]

JORDAN PEELE HOLDS UP A BLACK MIRROR TO WHITE LIBERAL CONDESCENSION IN THE FUNNY AND TERRIFYING HORROR SATIRE GET OUT. By Nick Milligan “I would have voted for Obama for a […]

Kristen Stewart attempts to contact the spirit of her deceased twin brother in French director Olivier Assayas’ haunting rumination on grief, glamour and the male gaze, Personal Shopper.   By Nick […]

White robes. Ritualistic daggers. Scattered and mutilated corpses. Ungodly surgical procedures. Creeping dread. A slow descent into hell. No, I’m not describing Australia’s public healthcare system – but rather the bloody […]

With the news this week that a Stockholm firm are implanting their staff with a microchip that will let them through locked office doors and use printers, it seems that […]

The 1991 Disney animated version of Beauty and the Beast held pride of place amongst my childhood VHS collection, and was on high rotation alongside Aladdin and Fantasia during those halcyon […]