Stalker: Secrets of the Zone

Photo: Goskino Andrei Tarkovsky’s crew found a grim place to shoot the scenes inside the film’s mystical Zone – two deserted hydro power plants just outside Tallinn. There had also…

Venom 

Down-on-his-luck investigative journalist Eddie Brock (Tom Hardy) is infected by an alien lifeform, which gives him awkward new powers to fight the industrialist (Riz Ahmed) who caused his downfall. Venom…

Terminator: Dark Fate 

The sixth film continues a franchise tradition: serving up impressive action just like its predecessors, but also disowning those movies at the same time. This one continues two decades after…

Zombieland: Double Tap

Ten years after the events of the first Zombieland, our four survivors have become not only a family but very skilled at handling different types of zombies; new challenges threaten…

Parasite: Movin’ On Up

Choi Woo-shik, Song Kang-ho, Jang Hye-jin and Park So-dam. Photo: CJ Entertainment As fall descended on us this year, it became increasingly clear that class warfare was going to be…

Joker: Birth of a Clown Prince

Joaquin Phoenix. Photo: Warner As it is about to premiere, Joker has become a controversial film. For the Twitter crowd, director Todd Phillips’s explanation why he decided to make the…

Hustlers 

Shortly before the 2008 recession, New York stripper Destiny (Costance Wu) is mentored by Ramona Vega (Jennifer Lopez); a few years later, when times are tougher, they embark on a…

My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 

The Portokalos family are thrown into turmoil when the grandparents (Michael Constantine, Lainie Kazan) learn that in spite of their 50 years together, they’re not actually married. The sequel took…

The Full Monty: Desperate Measures

Photo: Channel Four Films Robert Carlyle had two huge hits coming out in 1996 and 1997, films that really launched his international career. Trainspotting was celebrated right from the start,…

Rambo: Last Blood

When John Rambo’s (Sylvester Stallone) niece (Yvette Monreal) goes to Mexico looking for her father, she ends up in the hands of a cartel, provoking Rambo’s fury. Just like First…