Get Me Roger Stone

After the 2016 presidential election, it only seemed logical to see a documentary about the shameless Republican strategist Roger Stone – getting Donald Trump into the White House was after…

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…

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…