At the end of last week, I reviewed Marvel’s latest movie Black Panther. The film has, quite rightly, received a lot of attention for its focus on black African characters. Speaking as a white guy, it is all too easy ...
Read More »Best and Worst Films of 2017
Best of 2017 I have come to reject the idea that we have good and bad years in cinema. That view is usually cultivated amongst those who only follow the outcomes of the major awards ceremonies with their rather unadventurous ...
Read More »Baby Driver: That’s all the music you need
I’m so glad this is the first film I saw after slogging through Transformers. Nothing cheers you up like an Edgar Wright film. The director has been chronically underappreciated over the years. The fact that we will never see his ...
Read More »Transformers – The Last Knight: God, help me…
You are actually reading the second version of this review. The first consisted of a stream-of-consciousness which included the phrase ‘fuck you’ 463 times. Of course I hate this film. Someone with the remotest sense of critical taste was bound ...
Read More »Beware fake feminism
‘Yeah, I fight like a girl,’ says a defiant Isabela Moner in a trailer for the new Transformers film. And this irks me. Not because I am a misogynist simmering with rage at the slightest suggestion that feminism has infiltrated ...
Read More »The Acquirers #5.5
The Cosmic Cube Part 5 The last panel on this strip is Ash’s favorite so far and its hard not to agree with him; Freeman has the most magical expression. The transformers costumes you will be glad to know are ...
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