Eye In The Sky may be one of the most important movies (in a cultural and political sense) ever made. It's one of those films that comes along that everyone should see so they can forge their own opinion and argue and debate the whole way home from the cinema. See, Eye In The Sky focuses on drone warfare and presents a fictionalised, but thoroughly realistic, situation told in real-time. In short, as there's lots that go wrong to begin with and the tension rapidly builds, the

As late to the party as I am here's my two cents on DC's first entry for 2016 (or the year of the superhero as it shall now be known) Batman v. Superman: Dawn Of Justice. This is a huge undertaking and one that feels a little hasty considering a certain Marvel 'versus' movie is only a week away. What's immediately clear after leaving the cinema is that Zack Snyder has given himself slightly too much to do here, i.e. set up the next four films in the franchise (Justice League

The Divergent series returns with the obligatory 'part one of the final book': Allegiant. Now, cannily, they failed to advertise the fact that it's a 'part one' by coming up with a different title for the final film but all the usual first-part tropes are here. That means more character development for the originals, a fair amount of flashback, the introduction of a new, shady organisation and a cliff-hanger ending. Handily, this instalment widens the palette of the series an

Anything released by the Coen Brothers can be assured consideration in the end of the year polls and Hail, Caesar! is no exception. The prolific Directors are on form again in a classic comedy farce which has ties and links to their previous filmography. Recurrent Coen favourite George Clooney plays an actor kidnapped from Capitol Pictures (the same studio they created for Barton Fink) and it's up to studio 'fixer' (and, again, Coen recurrent) Josh Brolin to fix it. Full of r

Grimsby is the latest film from Sacha Baron Cohen and you know before you read this whether you are going to enjoy this film or not. In keeping with his sense of humour established in his previous releases, but pursuing the storied element rather than his early, pseudo-documentary style, Grimsby is laugh-out-loud for those who are fans and potentially too gross for those who aren't. I am in the former camp but felt that his last, The Dictator, was a little too focused on stor

So Marvel strike first in the 2016 comic book race with Deadpool (we could have seven new superhero movies by the end of the year) and pre-release hype and a brilliant piece of marketing strategy has left cinema-goers foaming at the mouth with excitement for this one. Props to Marvel here for trying to change the game. The market is over-saturated with costumed crusaders and this, along with last year's brilliant Ant-Man, is trying to change the formula and keep people's inte

They don't make films like Goosebumps anymore. Tapping into the 80's and 90's family-movie zeitgeist, this is a delightful throwback to classics like Ghostbusters, The Goonies and Jumanji. If this was released anytime other than this year we would be holding this up as a classic of the genre and watch it every bank holiday. Zippy, inventive and fun this is the story of boy meets girl whilst running away from the monstrous creations of RL Stine's titular series of novels. The

2016 looks like the year of the superhero and the true-life flick. Every comic character to ever don a cape is getting a movie and every event to have ever appeared on the news looks like it's getting one too (with some more worthy than others.) One which is worthy of such treatment is The Big Short. Adam McKay's latest hones in on the American housing market crash which had such substantial impact on the world's economy. McKay is unflinching in his brandishing of the high-en

January reviews are often full of Oscar buzz and early-year hype and those for Room have been no less complimentary thus far. Based on Emma Donoghue's bestseller (which I must confess at this point I have not read) this is a film tarnished slightly by the fact that the 'spoiler' is well known. A drama tonally similar to the fantastic Gone Girl, this is one which will become widely-seen and admired but isn't quite up there with David Fincher's film. The pace here is pretty sed

Will 2016 be the year that DiCaprio gets his Oscar? The Revenant is the latest film to see him nominated for Best Actor and it doesn't disappoint at all. Alejandro G. Iñárritu already blew the world away last year with his technically dazzling Birdman and goes all out here to top it with a film that took a gruelling nine months to film in hostile conditions. It's safe to say that this isn't quite an 'enjoyable' watch in a traditional sense. It's long, challenging, hard-hittin

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Quentin Tarantino kicks off 2016 with his second Western: The Hateful Eight. This looks like an amazing year for film and starting off with a new Tarantino is proof positive of that. For me, this is superior to Django Unchained. QT has honed the formula and introduced some of his signature elements to the format and this is akin to a culmination of everything Tarantino has done up to now. It plays like a greatest hits featuring long, slow conversation scenes, revealing flashb