Feature Essays
“I am here now because of you” | King Arthur: Legend of the Sword (2017)
This is a story that takes more than eight years to tell. It begins with a Hollywood studio electing to mount an all-new screen adaptation ...
REVIEW: Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) (2020)
Some time after the events of Suicide Squad, Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie) breaks up with the Joker. Without the Joker's protection, she is soon targeted by every Gotham criminal with a grudge against her, including gangster Roman Sionis (Ewan McGregor). Sionis is on the hunt for a diamond implanted with the details of the Bertinelli family ...
REVIEW: Martyrs (2008)
15 years after escaping from a place of unexplained and unsolved torture, Lucie (Mylène Jampanoï) storms into the home of a suburban family with a shotgun and massacres them in cold blood - believing them to be the people who tortured her as a child. Once her best friend Anna (Morjana Alaoui) arrives to help ...
REVIEW: Goodbye, Dragon Inn (2003)
A run-down Taipei cinema screens its final movie: King Hu's legendary wuxia film Dragon Inn. While the film plays the cinema's disabled cashier (Chen Shiang-chyi) slowly goes about her work, young gay men awkwardly use the theatre as a place to hook up, and the cinema itself may be populated by ghosts. Goodbye, Dragon Inn is ...
REVIEW: The Call of the Wild (2020)
Buck is a St Bernard-Scotch Collie cross living an easy life in 1890s Santa Clara. When he is kidnapped and illegally sold, he finds himself the property of Yukon freight haulers - and on an adventure into the northern American wilderness. On his journey he keeps crossing paths with the solitary man John Thornton (Harrison ...
REVIEW: Terminator: Dark Fate (2019)
Decades after the events of Terminator 2: Judgment Day, a young Mexican woman (Natalia Reyes) comes under attack from an advanced killer robot from the future, with her only protection coming from a time-travelling guardian (Mackenzie Davis) and Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton) - an embittered survivor who has been fighting Terminators for her entire life. Terminator has been ...
REVIEW: Radio Days (1987)
A man named Joe reminisces on his childhood in the early 1940s, when his extended family lived together in Rockaway Beach and radio was the king of American culture. In a series of anecdotes he recalls both the famous incidents of the local radio empire as well as his own young self (Seth Green) growing ...
REVIEW: Bodyguards and Assassins (2009)
In 1906 Hong Kong a team of pro-democracy revolutionaries secretly prepare for the arrival of their leader, Dr Sun Yat-sen. At the same time, a representative of the empire makes preparations of his own – not to greet or defend Dr Sun, but to assassinate him. When these two forces collide the result is a ...
