Deconstructing the machinery of cinema.
Homeless thief Aladdin (Mena Massoud) lives on the streets of Agrabah, until a chance encounter with Princess Jasmine (Naomi Scott) throws him into a fantastical adventure involving an evil vizier (Marwan Kenzari), a magical cave, a flying carpet, and an all-powerful genie (Will Smith) charged with granting him three wishes. Disney are really going hell-for-leather ...
Professional assassin John Wick (Keanu Reeves) has murdered a member of the 'high table' - the aristocratic powerbrokers who rule a secret world of killers. Now he is alone, targeted by all thanks to a $14 million dollar price on his head, and unable to call on any of his former allies. The 2017 sequel John ...
"Mother" (Jennifer Lawrence) wakes up in an isolated house in the country, where she lives with "Him" (Javier Bardem) her poet husband who suffers terribly from writer's block. When a stranger (Ed Harris) unexpectedly arrives with a not-entirely-truthful story, closely followed by his wife (Michelle Pfieffer) it propels mother onto an increasingly threatening emotional journey. ...
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 ...
13 year-old Fred Flarsky had a crush on his babysitter, 16 year-old Charlotte Field. Decades later, Fred (Seth Rogen) is a talented and left-wing journalist, and Charlotte (Charlize Theron) is a Secretary of State with eyes on the US Presidency. When Charlotte hires Fred to join her speech-writing team, their reunion sparks off a romance ...
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 ...
On 12 November 2019, Walt Disney will launch its online streaming service Disney+ in the USA, with other markets scheduled to follow soon afterwards. The new service will offer viewers a one-stop shop for the company's long history of film and television productions, as well as those of companies now purchased or absorbed by the ...
