Demolition is an upcoming comedy-drama from director Jean-Marc Vallée (the rather excellent Dallas Buyers Club) that stars Jake Gyllenhaal as a widower trying to find meaning in his life. Actually I lie, he’s not looking for meaning, he’s trying to find anything in his life. The official plot synopsis is as follows: Davis (Jake Gyllenhaal), a successful investment banker, struggles after …

Look, Avengers: Infinity War most definitely has me frothing at the mouth in fanboy excitement, but when it comes to Marvel cosmic comic book goodness, there’s only one movie at the top of my list: Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2. For a long time it was rumoured that writer/director James Gunn’s sequel to his 2014 smash hit may in …

Nothing can derail or drive an election better than spin. And according to a marathon of The Thick Of It that I watched on Netflix, spin doctors are a force to be reckoned with. It’s also a sub-genre that we really see explored in Hollywood, with the last such film that I can recall right now being the 1997 satire …

Not every movie that an actor or actress takes on can be an Oscar-worthy performance. Sometimes, they might take on a role just to get a pay-check. Sometimes they haven’t been in anything for a while, and need the visibility. Sometimes it’s even a vanity projects that someone should have convinced them to put down. But sometimes, good Hollywood stars …

If you follow me on social media, you would know that I was quite hyped about the recent news that Syfy have renewed freshmen sci-fi shows Dark Matter and Killjoys. While they’re both great little shows that scratch slightly different sci-fi fanboy itches of mine, I’m not here to tell you why should watch them (that’s for another post in …

Let’s get one thing straight: Aquaman is a badass. The DC Comics Atlantean king is one of the most powerful members of the Justice League and commands a kingdom that literally covers two-thirds of the planet.  And yet, thanks to some poor writing and the lasting memory of one 1970’s cartoon in which he was portrayed as a fool (with …

Some months ago I caught a special screening of Trainspotting, courtesy of Nu Metro and TCM’s short-lived (but awesome) classic movie screenings. It was a fanatical hoot. The audience were clearly divided into two groups: those who had seen this film and those who hadn’t. Last Updated: September 8, 2015

Any movie fan knows by now that there are two measures for a film’s box office success: domestic and everything else. Domestic always referred to the American box office, for good reason. It has dominated earnings and even regions such as Europe could not compare to the amount Americans spend to watch movies. Last Updated: September 8, 2015