A superbly acted and deeply moving collection of inter-connected stories that is perhaps just a little too gloomy and melancholy to consider satisfactory entertainment

Netflix is going to be releasing some big movies with big stars over he next few months, as it faces no traditional box office competition.

In the rough-and-tumble town of Seaside (nowhere near the sea), villagers flock to Punch and Judy’s marionette theatre. Though Punch (Damon Herriman) proclaims himself the greatest puppeteer and his beating stick rouses cheers from the crowd, it’s Judy (Mia Wasikowska) who breathes artistry into the otherwise crude show. But during a drinking bout and a tragic mishap with their child, the hot-tempered Punch brutally beats Judy, leaving her for dead in the woods. Taken in by Doctor Goodtime and a society of outcasts, Judy plots her revenge.

It isn’t often that I have to think a bit before deciding whether a movie is good or not because I enjoyed it; enjoyment often overriding the logic of a situation by saturating the mind with dopamine, something Lewis Carol knew all too much about. I can safely say that this Alice Through the Looking Glass isn’t one of those times, …

We don’t really need to have screenshots (see them at the bottom) to imagine what the sequel to the Tim Burton rendition of Alice in Wonderland will look like, but we are getting some anyway, which just goes to reaffirm the continuity that we will have of the crazy and peculiar version that Tim Burton created. And we have a new …

I was not a fan of Tim Burton’s Alice In Wonderland. Don’t get me wrong, I didn’t hate it; but that would probably have been a more favourable response because then I would have felt something instead of the overwhelming meh-ness I actually left the cinema with. Clearly though, my opinion about movies is about as important as Alwynne’s opinions …

It’s (almost) all about Halloween this weekend! We have a surprisingly good meta-adaptation of the famously spooky R.L. Stine book series Goosebumps, a disturbing but beautiful horror love story from Guillermo del Toro, a sadly not-so-scary home invasion thriller, a movie about the dark allure of violent gangsters, and one Russian produced and Afrikaans dubbed animated movie about The Snow …

Guillermo del Toro’s Crimson Peak has all the ingredients to make one fine movie. Unfortunately, there might just be too many ingredients to make it all work. You will see big creepy, creaking buildings, dark characters, creatively designed ghosts (even if they look poorly CGI’d) and all of this certainly appears to make for a good horror movie just in …