Venom movie review: no teeth, no bite
A dull, dated comic-book clunker that is somehow even smaller and lesser than the sum of its noisy, junky, clichéd bits. So perfunctory that it saps even its excellent cast of all their charisma.
Tom Hardy
Dunkirk movie review: the power of purpose
Primal and exhilarating, full of dread and tension. Drops us right into the chaos of war to tell an intimate story about fear and intensity of purpose.
curated: let Tom Hardy read you a bedtime story
You’d like to spend bedtime with Tom Hardy, wouldn’t you?
my predictions for Oscars 2016 (88th Academy Awards for 2015’s films)
Now updated with all the winners…
The Revenant movie review: an extreme walk in the woods
High-toned body horror that emotionally and tonally starts on one note and never deviates from it, which becomes rather exhaustingly dull.
Legend movie review: badfellas
Tom Hardy is fab, but this is GoodFellas-lite, depicting violent sociopaths as glamorous, even amusing, and lacking all understanding of what made them tick.
from Facebook: so everyone’s cool with studios lying about reviews now, apparently
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London Road movie review: the real world’s a stage
No one has done a musical like this before, keeping an uneasy beat to craft a dark replica of scared community spirit in the wake of a shocking crime.
I fixed that Mad Max poster for all the MRAs male supremacists complaining about Fury Road
IMPORTANT UPDATE! The He-Man Woman Haterz Club that is so very worried about Mad Max: Fury Road don’t like to be called MRAs…
Mad Max: Fury Road movie review: warlords is hell
Astonishing. Achieves its grotesque, magnificent brutality in an old-fashioned way that serves as a smackdown to bloated, sterile CGI monstrosities.
