The Dark Tower (2017)
“So, when’s the Apocalypse coming?” Let me be as clear as I can: The Dark Tower is, I can only assume since I haven’t read the novels, a despicable adaptation of the […]
Category Archives: Action
Atomic Blonde (2017)
“Trust no one.” While not outright ditzy or dumb or as cool as it thinks itself to be, Atomic Blonde is a whole lot more boring of a film than its […]
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017)
“It’s okay to be vulnerable sometimes.” It’s hard to describe Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets without imitating Bill Hader’s famous SNL character Stefon as he hyped up a New York night […]
Dunkirk (2017)
“If we go there we’ll die.” Christopher Nolan seems to be a director and a storyteller obsessed by the passage, the overall meaning, and the possibility of exploring different pieces […]
War for the Planet of the Apes (2017)
“I did not start this war.” As overtly and obviously religious in tone as it is visually inspired by the Fall of the Roman Empire, War for the Planet of the […]
Okja (2017)
“If it’s cheap, they’ll eat it.” Okja takes place in the present day for a reason. Rather than push its lavishly hyperbolic take on an old Aesop Fable out into a […]
Despicable Me 3 (2017)
“Does no one value true art anymore?” Movies like Despicable Me 3 – alongside other recent animated films such as the insultingly stupid The Secret Life of Pets or the scattershot The Good Dinosaur […]
Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)
“I feel like I could be doing more.” As the sixth leading role in a film since the dawn of the new millenium – and the third reboot of the […]
Baby Driver (2017)
“That’s how you do it, Baby.” Ask me to describe Baby Driver in one line and you’ll get a different response every time. “Take True Romance’s Bonnie and Clyde love affair and splash in some […]
Transformers: The Last Knight (2017)
“More alien rubbish.” It’s never a promising sign when I go through my scribbled notepad after a movie and find the followings lines: “I’m already lost,” “Literally can’t tell what […]
