June 29, 2019
Fleabag is adapted from genius Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s award-winning one-woman play of the same name. The titular, fourth-wall-breaking Fleabag, played by Waller-Bridge, is an electrifying personality—horny, cheeky, depressed—who is struggling to run...
April 26, 2019
WARNING! SPOILERS BELOW!
The monumental conclusion to Kevin Feige’s decade-long development of the Marvel Cinematic Universe has led to this—Avengers: Endgame, which has the surviving superheroes reeling after Thanos’ (Josh Brolin) half-the-universe r...
February 23, 2019
A Single Man is one of my favourite films. It is assured, exquisitely beautiful, and sad. It was an astounding debut film for director Tom Ford, who is better known for having been the stylish, sharp, and provocative creative director of Gucci before...
January 26, 2019
A well-told tale played to perfection, The Favourite stars Olivia Colman, Rachel Weisz, and Emma Stone in an English courtly comedy-drama. Queen Anne (Colman) is a weak-willed, gout-stricken ruler with a poor grip on matters of state. Her closest con...
December 28, 2018
Director Alfonso Cuarón returns to his indie roots since 2001’s indelible Y Tu Mamá También with the sublime Roma. Filmed in black-and-white and set in 1970s Mexico, Roma follows the life of a young maid named Cleo (Yalitza Aparicio) as she serves th...
April 28, 2018
Ten years, eighteen films, countless heroes—Avengers: Infinity War is the culmination of the phenomenon that is the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Earth’s best fighters and allies team up to take down the genocidal, uber-powerful Thanos (Josh Brolin) who...
March 30, 2018
Black Panther, Marvel’s record-shattering ode to black excellence and Afro-futurist storytelling, is an eye-opener for Hollywood and global cinema. It stars a fantastic roster of African-American and Black-British actors that includes Chadwick Bosem...
February 23, 2018
Visionary fantasy auteur Guillermo del Toro presents a genre-bending love story between a mute janitor and a fish-man creature in The Shape of Water. Living in Baltimore during the Cold War, Eliza (Hawkins) is a mute woman working as a cleaner at a s...
December 1, 2017
Freeing Thor from his staid first and second instalments, Kiwi director Taika Waititi finds fresh humour and heart in the valiant god of thunder (from Down Under) in Thor: Ragnarok. Chris Hemsworth returns as the mythical Norse prince who, in his que...
November 17, 2017
A cult-classic British sitcom, The IT Crowd stars Chris O'Dowd, Richard Ayoade, and Katherine Parkinson as the oft trod-upon, three-person IT department of Reynholm Industries. Roy (O’Dowd) is a slacker and slob whose best friend is geeky, awkward Mo...
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