Cafe Society (7/10)
Woody Allen has now made 51 movies, and so by now we have a rough idea what to expect. In his twilight years his recent movies continue to attract top notch actors, and his ear
Demolition (5/10)
Davis (Jake Gyllenhaal) loses his wife in a car accident in the opening scene of Demolition. As his once seemingly perfect life falls apart, his behaviour becomes more and more erratic. Davis has started writing
Jewtopia (1/10)
Christian (Ivan Sergei) wants to marry a Jewish girl so he doesn't have to make any decisions about anything anymore for the rest of his life; except Chris isn't Jewish himself, so he asks for
Eddie the Eagle (7/10)
This movie about how a little boy with big ambitions became Eddie the Eagle may be light fare but it is also admirably successful in what it aims to be: an underdog-comes-out-on-top feel-good movie. Eddie (Taron
Men & Chicken (Mænd & Høns) (5/10)
A dark Danish comedy by director Anders Thomas Jensen, Men & Chicken starts out about two brothers, Elias (Mads Mikkelsen) and Gabriel (David Dencik), with some obvious behavioural and social challenges whose father has just
Posthumous (4/10)
Posthumous starts out with the premise that an artist's work is only truly acknowledged and valued after death, and so struggling artist Liam Price decides to fake his own death. Brit Marling plays McKenzie Grain,
Hail Caesar! (6/10)
“Hail Caesar!” is a gentle comedy on the surface, but seems to me more a homage to the glory days of the Hollywood studio system in the 1930s-50s. At that time the “big five” studios
The Lady in the Van (5/10)
'The Lady in the Van' was Mary Shepherd (Maggie Smith), an elderly vagrant living in her van in the streets of Camden in the 1970s and 80s. She came to live in Alan Bennett's (Alex
Goosebumps (6/10)
This movie takes one of R.L.Stine's book series (there are currently 182 Goosebump books) and makes a merry mash-up of it all. Jack Black plays RL Stine as a recluse, living in a small town
Dark Star (7/10)
The deep space explorer Dark Star, with an original crew of five, has the task of finding unstable planets in alien star systems and destroying them to make way for later colonisation. It is a