Reviews
I Like to Watch: Nerve and Money Monster
Nerve is a movie that’s right on time. Nerve’s an online game of truth or dare; Periscope with teeth.
Arrival (Denis Villeneuve - 2016) Movie Review
Language and the ability to “articulate” our existence is one of the defining characteristics of the human species. Arrival is about the awakening and ensuing trauma discovering that we’re not alone in the universe.
Nocturnal Animals (Tom Ford - 2016): The Wretched
Nocturnal Animals is a dark tragedy. Ford's motivation for the film is writ large in the opening credits. Obese, grotesque, American women gyrate in slow motion like a 'Fourth of July' themed, trailer park strip show. Like war photography, Ford wants to find the beauty in darkness.
Café Society (Woody Allen - 2016) Review: Play it again Woody
Cafe Society feels like you're ready to dismiss it and then you realise that you're engrossed to the point you can't look away.
Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates (2016) Movie Review: "What's in the Box?
Thanks to enthusiastically sincere performances, Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates has a perverse charm.
Jack Reacher: Never Go Back (2016) Movie Review: And you thought M:I 2 was bad!?
The quality drop between Jack Reacher and Never Go Back might make it a worse sequel than Mission: Impossible II.
Arrival (2016) Movie Review: Not Alone In The Universe
Arrival sets itself up with an elevator pitch: what if, on the day you felt most isolated, you discover we are not alone in the universe?
Marvel's Doctor Strange (2016) Movie Review: The C+ Ceiling
Marvel is stuttering along like a student that can't bust the C+ ceiling.
The Shallows (2016) Movie Review: "Lively Jaws"
The Shallows (apart from an ending that nearly makes the entire film shit the bed) is a hair-raising, beautifully executed and performed thriller that likes to remind the audience why going in the water's cool, but if you swim near a Shark's food, "you done f*cked up."
Netflix's Mascots Review
Guest achieves dad-joke status with Mascots; the same faces, the same gags, the same set ups, the same polite laugher; dad, enough.
Hell or High Water (2016) Movie Review: No Country For Bad Accents
Hell or High Water has had some pretty poor comparisons to No Country for Old Men in the buzz and hype for the film. That's not to deny that HOHW is a quality viewing, but rather that the world at large is not generating forces like Javier Bardem's Anton Chigurh to be unleashed upon the characters. Instead writer Taylor Sheridan is tackling American financial corruption head on.
The Magnificent Seven (2016) Movie Review: Denzel The Magnificent
Toothless villains don’t deserve superhero team ups.
A Bigger Splash (2015) Movie Review: La-Tilda-Vventura
A Bigger Splash is a sensual thrill ride of temptation as four people map out where they are now and who they thought they'd be.
Sully (2016) Movie Review: Time to Heal
With each new perspective of the day, despite knowing the outcome, the Hudson River landing sequence becomes harrowing because the people matter.
POPSTAR: Never Stop Never Stopping: This is just a tribute
This is not the greatest mockumentary in the world, no! This is just a tribute. But you've gotta believe me, it's still really fair, but it's just a matter of opinion.
MISSING DICKS: The Naked City (1948) Movie Review: “Investigation 101”
Lo and Behold: Werner shall do ALL the documentaries
Just try to watch one of his films without resorting to narrating the rest of that day as Werner, I 'darez' ya.
Kickboxer: Vengeance: JCVDeja Vu
Give me a more realistically formidable bad guy and a drunken JVCD bar fight any day of the week.
MISSING DICKS: Sea of Love (1989) "She's Got a Great A**"
Sea of Love, written by Price, and directed by Harold Becker is a tale of a New York cop so desperate to regain attachment to the world that he's willing to forgo the risks of sleeping with a suspected serial murderer.
Jane Got a Gun (2016) Movie Review: "Shooting Blanks"
Jane Got a Gun is misleading; it should be renamed “Jane had an old 'friend' who was a soldier with mad skills.”