Will Ferrell and Amy Poehler star in a high concept comedy about parents who decide to open an illegal casino in their friends home to pay for their daughters college tuition fees. Let's get this out of the way quickly, this is an awful film with very little positive to talk about. The opening set … Continue reading The House

Gru and his minions return for a really enjoyable romp through Illumination Entertainment's world of super villains where the trump card is a truly brilliant new nemesis for Gru. The plot should be wince inducing, but seems to work well in this strange world of villains. Gru (Steve Carrell) has a long-lost twin brother Dru … Continue reading Despicable Me 3

For the third time in 15 years we have a new Spider-Man and this time he is in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU from here). Thanks to an agreement between Sony and Marvel, Spidey is finally allowed to live in the same world as the Avengers, but only on the proviso that Marc Webb's films … Continue reading Spider-Man: Homecoming

Okja is my first review on this site for a film that I did not see at the cinema and that on its own gives me incredibly mixed feelings about the health of the Cinema. The film, financed by Netflix has received a limited cinema release the same day as it became available on the … Continue reading Okja

Henry is 11 and a genius. He lives with his mother Susan and his younger brother Peter in a leafy suburb. Aside from setting his family up for life via the stock market he is concerned that apathy is worse than violence and people should do more to help others. When he suspects his classmate … Continue reading The Book of Henry

The 5th Transformers movie from Michael Bay sees Cybertron heading to Earth to try to renew itself whilst we are treated to mythology about King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table being part of Transformers history. Stanley Tucci is a drunken Merlin, Anthony Hopkins plays an utterly bonkers English Earl, Laura Haddock takes … Continue reading Transformers: The Last Knight

Baby (Ansel Elgort) is a getaway driver paying off a debt to heist boss Doc (Kevin Spacey). Following an accident as a child he has tinnitus and constantly plays music off of his many iPods, every aspect of his life choreographed to music. Simply put, this is a great film. Edgar Wright is back following … Continue reading Baby Driver

The first of two films about Winston Churchill this year decides to focus on the 3 days leading up to D-Day and takes a very human approach to its character. I have to say I found the focus initially disorienting as this film is not about the decisive leader and greatest Briton who led us … Continue reading Churchill

Frank (Chris Evans) has been raising his niece Mary (McKenna Grace) since her mother died when she was a baby. At the age of 7 he is sending her off to school where it very quickly comes to light that she is a gifted child, something Frank already knew, but he is very eager for … Continue reading Gifted

The beginning of Universal's Dark Universe starts with a reboot of the Mummy starring Tom Cruise, Sofia Boutella, Annabelle Wallis and Russell Crowe. Cruise is a soldier looking for plunder in Iraq when he discovers the tomb of an evil mummy. Set on turning him into the living embodiment of Set, the God of Death … Continue reading The Mummy