Despicable Me 3 

After failing to capture a former child actor turned supervillain, Gru and Lucy are fired from the Anti-Villain League… but then they meet Gru’s long-lost twin brother Dru. Another contrived…

Transformers: The Last Knight 

Optimus Prime and Megatron are long gone, but new Transformers keep coming back to Earth; Cade Yeager (Mark Wahlberg) finds new allies in his quest to learn why. The fifth…

Breathless: A Blueprint for the New Wave

Jean Seberg and Jean-Paul Belmondo. Photo: Les Films Impéria The kind of movie you see in film school and then you make a decision – either I love it or…

John Wick: Chapter 2

Italian crime lord Santino D’Antonio (Riccardo Scamarcio) comes to John Wick (Keanu Reeves) to collect a favor, but he refuses… until he’s persuaded to honor his commitments and do a…

Insidious: Chapter 3 

Quinn Brenner (Stefanie Scott) wants the help of retired parapsychologist Elise Rainier (Lin Shaye) to contact her dead mother, but finds a much more sinister demon instead. Leigh Whannell, one…

Adaptation: The Truth About Charlie

Nicolas Cage and Meryl Streep. Photo: Sony Pictures Releasing In 1994, Jonathan Demme bought the rights to journalist Susan Orlean’s book ”The Orchid Thief”, where she investigated the arrest of…

Wonder Woman 

Finally, after the failures of Man of Steel, Batman v Superman and Suicide Squad, DC Comics delivered a superhero adventure able to rival the Marvel movies. Directing her first feature…

L’Avventura: The Mystery of Anna

Gabriele Ferzetti and Monica Vitti. Photo: Cino del Duca The Cannes film festival is famous for its tumultuous screenings, but I wonder if there has ever been a change of…

The Pearl of Death 

After securing the delivery of the famous Borgia Pearl to a museum in London, the gem is stolen right under the nose of Holmes and Watson (Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce).…