Deconstructing the machinery of cinema.
A bright yellow tentacled alien with an eerie smiling, spherical head blows a hole through the moon. He then happily announces it's going to do the same to the Earth in one year, unless a classroom of 15 year-old Japanese high schoolers can assassinate him first. That's the premise of Assassination Classroom, a serialised manga by ...
If there was a definitive list of bad rules for American studio filmmaking, one of them – probably wedged between “always put the word Girl in the title of a female-led thriller” and “the lowest common denominator still can’t go past a fat joke” – would have to be “keep making films based on videogames ...
Note: this review does not contain any spoilers for Avengers: Endgame. In the aftermath of a colossal defeat that has seen half of the universe's population erased from existence - including many of their friends and teammates - the surviving members of the Avengers set out to somehow defeat the alien responsible: the villainous Thanos (Josh ...
In a post-apocalyptic future, entire cities have been transformed into enormous tank-like machines, moving across the European landscape capturing and tearing apart smaller communities for resources. Rebel Hester Shaw (Hera Hilmar) sneaks into the moving city of London with an eye to murder its technological genius Thaddeus Valentine (Hugo Weaving) - but things do not ...
Vers (Brie Larson) is a Kree warrior sent to defend her civilization from the shape-shifting aliens known as Skrulls. Captured in combat, she escapes - only to find herself on mid-1990s Earth, a planet she is shocked to discover she has visited before. Teaming up with SHIELD agent Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) she fights ...
US army sniper Quinn McKenna (Boyd Holbrook) witnesses an alien spacecraft crash-land while in the field in South America. After sending an alien set of armour back home, he is promptly captured and interrogated by a secret government agency before breaking free with a team of fellow military prisoners and getting caught in a race ...
A mysterious virus sweeps across the USA, killing 98 per cent of the children who contract it and gifting the survivors with psychic powers. When some of these powers turn dangerous, the government starts capturing children and teenagers and confining them to camps and categorising them into colours. Ruby Daly (Amandla Stenberg) is an 'orange', ...
