Early Man movie review: primordial goop
A huge disappointment, crude and simple compared to Aardman’s earlier, more sophisticated and multilayered work. No satire or subversion, just a bog-standard triumph-of-the-underdog story.
Edgar Wright
Baby Driver movie review: common car-nage
Edgar Wright used to send up cinematic clichés with gusto and with huge humor. Here he just embraces them — and his sullen, unengaging hero — unironically.
Absolutely Anything movie review: absolutely appalling
Subjuvenile and offensive, sentimental and ridiculous. Every attempt at a joke falls flat. Every talent here is wasted. Save yourself.
Ant-Man movie review: superhero reduction
Marvel’s tiniest hero stars in the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s smallest movie so far, one that loses Paul Rudd’s charm among familiar comic-book action.
The World’s End review: the very bitter (and lager) end
Its humor is a little more uncomfortable than that of the other Cornetto flicks, and it’s more far satirical, in a far more cynical way, than I ever would have anticipated.
Edgar Wright is undead-blogging the making of Shaun of the Dead
The director is posting photos from the ten-years-ago shoot starting today…
there’s no possibility this movie isn’t awesome (The World’s End trailer)
Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright together again for the first time.
question of the day: What 2013 movie are you most looking forward to?
Let’s get our geek on for the coming year!
The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn (review)
A soulless CGI-animated remake of Raiders of the Lost Ark. Without a Harrison Ford to smirk and snark his way through it, natch.
‘Attack the Block’ is expanding across the U.S. and Canada this weekend…
Not a lot, but some. Detroit, Denver, Nevada, buncha places in the Midwest, Montreal, Baltimore…
