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From Russia with Love (1963, Dir. Terence Young): Bond smiled wryly at his reflection in the Perspex as the plane swung out of the mountains and over the grosgrained terrazza…
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Ode to My Father (2014, Dir. Yoon Je-kyoon): Korean cinema, like Hollywood, likes to go big — but instead of CGI worlds and explosions, the Koreans traffic in sentiment. We’re used to…
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It’s no secret that this writer is a James Bond aficionado (for a gushing example, see here). In the run-up to the 24th film in the EON-produced Bond series, SPECTRE,…
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The first thing you see in Stevan Riley’s documentary Listen to Me Marlon is Marlon Brando’s disembodied head, in primitive 3-D vector imagery. The first voice you hear — indeed, the only voice you hear…
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Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (2015, Dir. Christopher McQuarrie): Those who enjoy subtext in their action flicks will have a field day with the latest entry in Tom Cruise’s Mission: Impossible franchise.…
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Spy (2015, Dir. Paul Feig): Behind the body-image jokes and the pratfalls, there’s a wry intelligence to Melissa McCarthy. For every potty-mouthed insult, you’ll find a moment of sweet vulnerability; each…
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Mad Max: Fury Road (2015, Dir. George Miller): Mad Max: Fury Road is not many things. It is not subtle, complex, or original. But it is most definitely a George…
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Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015, Dir. Joss Whedon): Seven years and eleven films later, Marvel has become a fact of life, a snowball gaining speed, a juggernaut that (to paraphrase from another film franchise)…
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“The Vulcan was always with me.” — Leonard Nimoy Sometimes acting isn’t about the acting. Sometimes it’s a matter of the right part finding the right actor; more often than not,…
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Jupiter Ascending (2015, Dir. The Wachkowskis): By the time you read this review, Andy and Lana Wachkowski’s Jupiter Ascending will have already been banished from the cinemas, a certified box office bomb.…
