How Olivia Wilde failed to grasp our real dystopian nightmare
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With MEN, Alex Garland sprints straight into the brick wall where his talents end.
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After its fourteen year journey to the screen UNCHARTED turns out to be a trip not worth taking.
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Adam learns an unexpected life lesson when he goes back to THE MATRIX.
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The year’s biggest movie in every respect, THE BATTLE AT LAKE CHANGJIN is an impressive and numbing barrage of explosions.
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After endless delays, rewrites and a pandemic NO TIME TO DIE was not worth the wait.
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Lisa Joy’s science fiction noir film REMINISCENCE is an empty and awkward exercise in genre nostalgia.
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WONDER WOMAN 1984 is a fun, upbeat, and frequently heartwarming return for the lasso-slinging Amazonian princess.
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Guan Hu’s THE EIGHT HUNDRED is a spectacularly bloody and unhistorical piece of CCP propaganda.
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Adam dives into Ricky Gervais’ career to learn what happens to comedians who used to be funny.
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What is the purpose of museums, or of preserving the past in general? Is it to ensure history survives into the future in real life, or in people’s minds?
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Adam Pilfold-Bagwell delves into why audiences don’t catch smaller movies in theaters, and it’s not because they only want to see things go BOOM.
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Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster war movie is one of the most accidentally insightful films about Britain ever made.
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BUMBLEBEE is the best TRANSFORMERS film by a wide margin, but it’s a fairly good movie that could have been a truly great one.
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Mortal Engines is a spectacular adventure film, a botched adaptation and a movie with moments of genuine heart.
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A story about a fascist demagogue exploiting people’s fears and prejudices to gain power should be timely. So why does JK Rowling make him seem reasonable?
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TERMINATOR is not a franchise that can survive in today’s world, because we’re not afraid of the same things anymore.
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Sicario 2 is not a terrible film, but a severely underwhelming one.
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How Sense8 created an unparalleled feeling of validation and acceptance for queer audiences.
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Star Trek is fundamentally a story about the military. So why does it deny it at every turn?
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Star Wars now has as many prequels as regular films, and Lucasfilm’s planning for even more in the future. But Star Wars is not a series that can sustain this.
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Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster war movie is one of the most accidentally insightful films about Britain ever made.
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Alex Garland’s underrated action flick is a nightmarish look at the horrors of modern American policing.
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There is no one thing wrong with Die Another Day. Everything is wrong with Die Another Day.
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After decades of rumours and productions that went nowhere, Death Wish is finally getting remade at the hands of Eli Roth.
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Like every attempt to rip off the MCU, The Mummy is a masterful case of putting cart before the horse.
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After his many appearances as Protagonist Man in films like Pacific Rim, Charlie Hunnam has finally found a cinematic starring role that lends itself to his talents.
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The film takes this problematic concept and proceeds to dig itself so deep it emerges on the moon.
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Soldiers marched phased halfway through their brightly-coloured clones, and I mistook a man in leather fetish wear for a woman in a bikini.
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How can a CGI-filled Hollywood blockbuster feel decades old before it even comes out?
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With Yu-Gi-Oh’s heyday being over a decade ago, could this sequel be aimed at nostalgic adults?
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Hitman allows you to exploit and murder anyone you meet. So why won’t it let you play the villain?
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Looking back on the fun parts of the worst year in recent memory.
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Giving and taking away control of the story from the player is the most powerful tool a developer has to tell it.
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One of the greatest games ever made tells us why we both play Call of Duty and pave the road to hell.
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A close look at the series reveals The Hunger Games really has more in common with and appeal to Trump voters than it does with his opponents.
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Alpha Centauri isn’t just a great grand strategy game, but also a masterpiece of minimalist horror.
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What is it keeping you interested and stopping you from putting the controller down and going back to finish Sense8?
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Origin stories have become the norm these days, from endless retellings of the childhoods of everyone’s favourite superheroes to bizarre, pointless tales like Pan, Oz the Great and Powerful and that gritty WWII Willy Wonka origin story Sony was trying to make at one point (I’m not kidding). So it was only matter of time
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Bioware’s Knights of the Old Republic was one of my favourite games as a child, and one specific part has stuck with me in all the years since. No, not the famous twist, nor HK-47’s love of murder or even force lightning-ing everyone to death like the Emperor while cackling madly before my TV, but
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