no, I have not reviewed ‘Sorry to Bother You’; yes, I would love to
But it doesn’t have a UK release date yet, and there’s no way for me to see it.
Month: August 2018
The Meg movie review: shark lark
Jason Statham versus a giant prehistoric shark. It’s never less — yet also never more — than you expect, and never more suspenseful or scary than it is cheesy. But whatev. Go, and enjoy.
Dog Days movie review: a mangy mongrel of a movie
Two rom-coms, a grossout comedy, a family drama, and a platonic May-December melodrama, all connected by stilted humor, sloppy schmaltz, implausible human interaction, and — least convincingly — dogs.
movies by or about women opening US/Can from Wed Aug 01
Mila Kunis and Kaye McKinnon have a spy adventure; Amandla Stenberg fights for respect in a future dystopia; Chloë Grace Moretz undergoes a terrible “therapy”; more…
movies by or about women opening UK/Ire from Thu Aug 02
Evangeline Lilly gets super tiny; Gemma Arterton runs away from her marriage; more…
Sicilian Ghost Story movie review: grim failing tale
A cruel film that hopes to use its fantastical surreality to find some sort of redemption in the senseless, violent, and real-life abuse of a child. There is no magic here, and no meaning.
Teen Titans Go! To the Movies movie review: the last action heroes (to get a movie)
The superhero movie we need, and also the one we karmically deserve. A riot of hilariously zippy animation that gleefully shreds the clichés of the genre while also lovingly embracing its self-referential geek experience.
