Drug deals, sex dolls, attacks on frat boys, sex swings, beer theft and sex toys are just some of the things you can expect to see in Good Boys, a comedy detailing a few days in the life of some sixth-grade 12-year-olds. That might seem like an odd concoction until you look at the team behind this movie which features various 'The Office US' alumni as well as Jonah Hill and the creators of Superbad: Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg. Pitching Good Boys as a 'younger Superbad' is a

“Another runner in the night, blinded by the light.” Bruce Springsteen has always spoken for those seeking the American Dream but Gurinder Chadha’s new film, based on the memoir of Bruce superfan Sarfraz Manzoor, translates Springsteen’s voice of the everyman to smalltown Luton in the 1980’s. Blinded by the Light is the coming-of-age tale of Javed (Mansoor’s onscreen representation), stuck in a town he hates and a town, with a large National Front presence, that hates him bac

You can broadly file Quentin Tarantino’s filmography into three distinct stages, each encompassing three films. The first, his imperial and most widely-celebrated, tells the ‘real-world underworld’ stories of Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction and Jackie Brown, all loosely ‘gangster, criminal’ related but imbued with more cultured dialogue. These three films, along with his writing on True Romance and Natural Born Killers, established Tarantino as the pop culture-inspired enfant te

We all love a good story. Stories are the bedrock of our culture and tell our history. We’ll tell the same stories over and over again and pass them down generations. Disney know this and Disney are one of the great exponents of storytelling. Morality tales and fables, both original and interpreted, that delight both kids and adults in equal measure. Their 'operation remake' of recent times is confirmation that these stories all have a place in our hearts with big box office

You can always rely on a small-scale, brisk buddy comedy at this time of the year. It’s one of those cinema tropes that seems to go down well, never doing enough to demand serious attention but leaving those who do see it with a smile on their face. This year’s iteration is the really rather awfully named Stuber which concerns, you guessed it, an Uber driver called Stu (file this with Tak3n.) Into Stu’s life, and car, comes hardboiled cop Vic, partially sighted after an eye o

We were so gripped by the intense drama in Avengers: Infinity War and Endgame that we didn’t think of the myriad repercussions of Thanos’ snap. Just think of the impact that would have on pop culture! It’s a pondering that Danny Boyle and Richard Curtis probably didn’t have when putting together Yesterday, but it’s fun to think of all the same. Imagine a world without The Beatles. When 'Nowhere Man' musician Jack Malik is hit by a bus during a power outage 'Across the Univers

Picking up the gauntlet (pun very much intended) from the incredible Avengers: Infinity War/Endgame double header and tasked with properly closing Phase 3 falls to our friendly, neighbourhood Spider-Man: Far From Home. The webslinger always stood more chance of bearing this heavy load than poor Ant-Man and the Wasp, which fell victim to its placement in the saga, and this is a fun and light breath of fresh air with which to leave proceedings until next year. Sure, Peter Parke

It’s difficult to think of too many essential four-quels. Too many are failed money-spinning ideas and struggle to justify their own existence. Well, Pixar laugh in the face of preconceptions and have given us an epilogue to a perfect ending with Toy Story 4. As immaculate as the trilogy is, there can’t have been many who were hankering to see more from our favourite toys knowing the only direction Pixar could head is down. Miraculously, bringing the band back together for on

It’s June and that can only mean two things: frustrating weather and unnecessary franchise reboots. Rain? Check. Bringing back the Men in Black without Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones? Check two. We’re presented then with: Men in Black: The Further Adventures of Thor and Valkyrie [checks notes] ok, so that’s not the ‘official’ title but it works as well as Men in Black: International. Chris Hemsworth and Tessa Thompson bringing their Asgardian chemistry from the MCU is easily

The X-Men never had a villain problem, a setting problem and certainly not a casting problem. What it had, well has, is a gaping timeline issue. Rebooting the series after the lacklustre X-Men: The Last Stand was a universally approved decision (especially with the actors on board) but taking the stance that Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine could never be improved upon, and warranted the middling side-line films, has proven to be its convoluted downfall. Don’t get me wrong, Jackman’s

Odd as it sounds, I believe Disney may have missed a trick by not, somehow, placing these live-action interpretations of their classic animations into some sort of 'shared cinematic universe.' Maybe I’m still reeling from Avengers: Endgame but a shared character or all-seeing narrator would have given the project some cohesiveness. At the very least, it’d be nice to have a consistent style or unifying mood and tone to the entire enterprise. The Jungle Book is largely the cata

With so many biopics being released in recent times, we can start to hone in and deduce what makes a truly great one. I believe the answer lies in truly representing the person in story, mood and aesthetic. Granted, this seems a fairly intangible barometer but some films just leave you with the 'feeling' and add to the person’s character, legacy or personality. The sleekness and theatre of Steve Jobs, the strikingly stark black and white of Control and now we can add the exub