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Venom movie review: no teeth, no bite

Fri, Oct 05, 2018
12 comments

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.

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Dunkirk movie review: the power of purpose

Wed, Jul 19, 2017
17 comments

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.

| 17 Comments

curated: let Tom Hardy read you a bedtime story

Mon, Jan 02, 2017
1 comment

You’d like to spend bedtime with Tom Hardy, wouldn’t you?

| 1 Comment

my predictions for Oscars 2016 (88th Academy Awards for 2015’s films)

Mon, Feb 29, 2016
10 comments

Now updated with all the winners…

| 10 Comments

The Revenant movie review: an extreme walk in the woods

Mon, Dec 28, 2015
14 comments

High-toned body horror that emotionally and tonally starts on one note and never deviates from it, which becomes rather exhaustingly dull.

| 14 Comments

Legend movie review: badfellas

Fri, Sep 11, 2015
2 comments

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.

| 2 Comments

from Facebook: so everyone’s cool with studios lying about reviews now, apparently

Thu, Sep 10, 2015
4 comments

[This post is not behind the paywall.]

| 4 Comments

London Road movie review: the real world’s a stage

Fri, Jun 12, 2015
13 comments

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.

| 13 Comments

I fixed that Mad Max poster for all the MRAs male supremacists complaining about Fury Road

Wed, May 20, 2015
26 comments

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…

| 26 Comments

Mad Max: Fury Road movie review: warlords is hell

Wed, May 13, 2015
163 comments

Astonishing. Achieves its grotesque, magnificent brutality in an old-fashioned way that serves as a smackdown to bloated, sterile CGI monstrosities.

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