A Hologram for the King
A movie about cultures colliding, midlife crises, flailing careers, fear, hope, and love with Tom Hanks heading the cast - sounds like a winner. Unfortunately the major themes get burried deep under the Arabian sand
Elle
How would you expect a woman to deal with being brutally raped? Undoubtedly there are many feasible scenarios - some more predictable than others. The one that Elle presents probably isn't one you would have
Anthropoid
Reinhard Heydrich was Hitler's third highest ranking officer, who had earned himself nicknames such as the Butcher of Prague and the Blond Beast. The Czech government was in exile in London at the time, and
The Girl on The Train
The “Girl on The Train”, Rachel, played by Emily Blunt, takes a commuter train each day into Manhattan and back. The train pauses in its journey opposite a house where she sees a seemingly perfect
The Wailing
I can't say the idea of a Korean horror movie automatically puts a film very high on my viewing list; I have seen enough Korean movies to have learnt that they can have a certain
The Neon Demon
Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn, I enjoyed his 2011 movie 'Drive'. Sure some of the slow scenes and long pauses and deep and meaningful looks between Ryan Gosling and Carey Mulligan gave it a hint
Hunt for the Wilderpeople
Ricky Baker gets sent off to live on a farm as his last chance before being sent to juvie prison. New Zealand Child Services take him to live with new foster parents - 'aunty' Bella
The Girl With All The Gifts
Ever since George Romero made “Night of the Living Dead” there have been films about zombies, but few manage to be worth watching. Directors have tried applying comedy (“Shaun of the Dead”) and even Jane
Florence Foster Jenkins
If you can't sing, don't let that stop you from pursuing your dream to be a singer; if you have enough money, you will get to sing wherever you want. Florence Foster Jenkins aims to
What We Do in the Shadows
What We Do in the Shadows is a documentary (oops, mockumentary) about a group of vampires in Wellington, NZ. It chronicles their lives as flatmates leading up to the annual ball where zombies, werewolves, witches,