Every Christmas, my gal pals and I get together to drink wine, gossip, share presents, and watch a truly awful Christmas romcom that either solidifies our friendship of 12 years or ends in tears. Last year it was The Christmas Prince, an...
It’s remarkable that the feats of Harriet Tubman, former slave-turned-civil-rights-activist, is a story that’s not been told in film before. A woman who became an abolitionist in the lead up to the American Civil War in 1861...
Spend any amount of time in the UK and you’ll soon realise that weather is a favourite topic of conversation for Brits. So, in a year that’s been full of veritable storms, heatwaves, and hurricanes, it’s only fitting tha...
Charlie (Adam Driver) and Nicole (Scarlett Johansson) run a theatre company together in New York. Charlie directs, Nicole acts, they’re married, and they have a son. All has been well for years, but somehow it isn't enough for Nic...
An indictment of bureaucracy at an acute level, The Report is the recipient of a lot of buzz online, largely owing to its high-profile cast and imminent Netflix release. Featuring Annette Bening (in a successful run, she’s alread...
The Spy puts Sacha Baron Cohen in a darkly gripping, real-life tale of espionage, following the life of Egyptian-born Eli Cohen. The story traces his infiltration into the highest ranks of the Syrian government in the early 1960s, providi...
I’ve written at length about my admiration for Andrew Scott. Whether it’s his turn as Moriarty in BBC's Sherlock, a psychotic London cabbie in the Black Mirror episode Smithereens, or as Hot Priest in series 2 of P...
Remember Stranger Things? That little show that popped up earlier in the summer that we all binged on the first day? Even if you’ve forgotten its mega success, star Millie Bobby Brown hasn’t -- and hasn’t been resting ...
Unlike the rest of us, Netflix hasn’t been sat around complaining about heatwaves this summer: it’s been busy bringing us some truly excellent trailers for its new releases. With Venice Film Festival underway as of last n...
I’m really impressed with Netflix’s slate of recently announced shows. They’re gearing up to be genuinely original, funny features and series that don’t just masquerade as great drama for the sake of awards season...
Disney have certainly been busy working on a brand new slate of films. Following on from the announcement of a few original productions this weekend at the D23 Expo, including the unlikely musical Soul, another newly-released feature from...
This weekend has been one wild ride for Disney at the D23 Expo. Probably the most ground-shaking news has come with the announcement that Tom Holland will no longer feature in the MCU as Spider-Man, leaving the entire MCU community dis...
If you’ve come across anything like the recent drama The Looming Tower, you’ll already have an idea that post-9/11 dramas are in vogue at the moment. The new Amazon- produced series The Report follows the gripping tren...
When it comes to political dramas, Netflix have it in the bag. With The Crown, Designated Survivor, and basically a huge roster leaning towards political scandal, suffice to say they have the genre covered. And on the other side ...
In small-town Warsaw, Indiana, mother Ana (Erica Muñoz) and her 17-year-old daughter Izzy (Izzy Hau’ula) are faced with what would have been an unthinkable future of separation just a few years ago. Fighting against strin...
Olivia Wilde’s latest project Don’t Worry, Darling -- a tale of a 1950s housewife whose reality begins to crack -- has been snatched up by New Line Cinema, Variety reports. When the psychological thriller was announced earlier t...
There’s a saying: people don’t need a doctor, they need an audience. Now I’m not telling you to cut off your doctor and get up on your soapbox (please don’t) -- but there’s definitely a therapeutic element ...
After a first look at Queen & Slim last month, Universal today dropped an extended trailer, pulling us deeper into the world of intrigue and all-too-common police misconduct and brutality. With a string of impressive music video and ...
In December 2015, T. Christian Miller and Ken Armstrong published an essay online called An Unbelievable Story of Rape, which centred on the story of an 18-year-old woman, Marie. In it, the writers describe how Marie was reportedly sexua...
The poster for the highly-anticipated third installment of the How To Train Your Dragon series has just been launched by Universal. Following the details of the movie released in April, we’ve now been given a colorific sneak peek at w...
Combing through nostalgic culture has become the norm, and unfortunately, so have the middling resulting projects. Audiences have, sadly, come to expect reboots to suffer as studios struggle to re-capture what made something popular in the ...
Despicable Me was a revelation when it first hit theaters. A villain choosing fatherhood over his proclivity for evil deeds was a novel idea, and it was much more than the minion flavored marketing would have you believe. Then those minions...
Spider-Man films have been through all sorts of ups and downs. What was once the biggest comic book property on film has since been the victim of studio craziness, failed attempts, and just an overall bad reception by the time The...
DC Comics and Warner Bros have been, well, let's say misguided in their attempts at launching a series of films comparable to Marvel's success. Deciding to push through critical failure (thanks to overall box office success), the conglomera...
Baywatch is another film in the same vein of nostalgic television reboots like The A-Team, CHiPs, and the crazily successful 21 Jump Street. A show known only for attractive people running in slow motion serving as a sort of softcore a...
More so than any of the reviews I've written, I feel I have to preface this one a bit. Since I (literally in some cases) hold the Power Rangers brand so close to my chest, I've been keeping a close eye on the reboot since the moment it was ...
(This is a republishing of the original review, which posted two weeks ago.) Logan is a response to a litany of unprecedented events. Comic book films are more popular than ever, the X-Men series is still a viable franchise s...
Gore Verbinski has always been a peculiar director. I've been a fan of his ever since he did remarkable work adapting the Japanese film Ringu into The Ring (a series that has not fared well in his absence), but choices in Pirates of the Car...
The Lego Movie was my favorite animated film of 2014. It felt fresh, had a story and jokes fit for both children and their parents, and even managed to deliver a heartfelt message at the end. The big standout was Will Arnett as Batman, a se...
The Resident Evil films have always been a special kind of terrible. While not great films in their own right, each film is part of a larger ambitious tale further spurned on by both fan and creator devotion. Each one might not fare well cr...
Every year I wind up missing a good deal of films as their advertising end up swallowed by the huge hype machines of bigger studio releases. But the true gems make themselves known somehow. Usually it's through word of mouth, but The Autops...
Sometimes questions shouldn't be begged in the titles of pieces lacking the substance to back up or even fully answer the suggested question. Why Him? Falls victim to this trope. Why him? Why me? Why see this movie?
Assassin's Creed has been in the works for a long time. The videogame series' developer Ubisoft has been trying to get the project off the ground since 2011, but was marred with production and release date delays. When Michael Fassbender wa...
When Gareth Edwards' take on Godzilla failed to light up screens here in the U.S., Godzilla's parent company, Toho, took the reboot as kind of an insult. Vowing to reclaim their famous monster, Toho unveiled a striking new design for the ra...
With a clever pun served on a silver platter, Terrordactyl presents itself as a straight to video B-movie masterpiece ready to absorb two hours of your Saturday night. Hoping that prehistoric mayhem might be delivered with heaping extras of...
The Conjuring became quite the hidden gem when it was released three years ago. A nostalgic return to classic horror haunting roots, it breathed new life into the genre by shifting the focus to paranormal hunters Ed and Lorraine Warren...
With videogame adaptations becoming more common, it was only a matter of time before we would end up in this situation. A videogame popular for its gameplay and mechanics rather than its story would get the big screen treatment as is the ca...
In my long tenure here at Flixist I've carved out a niche for myself. If you see a review for a Seth Rogen film or a sequel to a comedy, chances are it's my words you're reading. So little did I know I'd stick around here long enough for th...
Over the last few years, A24 has quickly become my favorite production studio. They've overseen everything from huge award winners like Room, Amy, and Ex Machina, critical darlings such as Spring Breakers and The End of the Tour, and some o...
Despite Kristen Stewart and director Rupert Saunders being pulled from the series after allegations of an affair, bumping up visual effects supervisor Cedric Nicolas-Troyan to debut as director, and the first film getting poor reviews,...
