“Decrucify the angel, or else I’ll melt your face!” I’m not sure why Barbarella exists, but I am so glad it does. Roger Vadim, never quite considered the authority on niche subjects like “subtlety”, “decency” or “logical storytelling”, managed to make a film that somehow went from nothing more than a cheap exploitation film about…

In a near-future, the overlap between technology and biology have developed so much that the genetic composition of plants can be manipulated to the point where they can be used to do nearly everything. This has been the latest project of Alice (Emily Beecham) and Chris (Ben Whishaw), a pair of scientists working for an…

Felix Greystone (Richard Kind) is forced into early retirement from his job at an architectural firm, which he has devoted his life to. A housebound life proves to be something he can’t adapt to, especially considering he is left to fend for himself after his wife (Susan Blackwell) gets a promotion that requires her to…

Major Roy McBride (Brad Pitt) is an astronaut working for the US Space Force (now a public institution known as SpaceCom, which has commercialized space travel). His entire life has been spent living in the shadow of his father (Tommy Lee Jones), a world-renowned space explorer who went missing nearly two decades before, after embarking…

Miles Monroe (Woody Allen) goes into the hospital for a routine operation, which turns out to not be a success. However, instead of dying, he is cryogenically frozen and is woken up in the year 2173, two centuries later. Not only does he have to overcome the shock of being thrust into the future so…

Budget constraints and a lack of experience should not stop anyone from making an audacious or innovative film, no matter how hard Hollywood campaigns for the idea that a bigger budget is somewhat indicative of quality. No one knows this better than Shane Carruth, whose career may only consist of two films, but remains one…

A Boy and His Dog had all the qualities a film needs to make it a masterpiece – it has an audacious concept, a funny storyline and effective approach to the execution of its many ideas. Yet, somehow it just isn’t good as it should be, and while it is far from a disaster, it…

Claire Denis did something exceptionally special with High Life. She managed to overcome so many of the challenges facing the sub-genre of the space movie and effectively crafted nothing short of a masterpiece. Denis was clearly inspired by several other works, both within and outside of the genre – and this film seems to be…

In all honesty, Pokémon Detective Pikachu is exactly what you’d expect from a modern live-action Pokémon film, and will certainly divide audiences – it isn’t going to win any new admirers to the franchise (except for maybe very young audiences, who may have this film serve as their introduction to the iconic Japanese creation) and…

A dystopian world, around six hundred years into the future. Dr Dyson Ido (Christoph Waltz) is a mechanical engineer and scavenger who finds the processing core of an unnamed cyborg, who he rebuilds and subsequently names Alita (Rosa Salazar). Beneath the innocent exterior lurks the heart of a fighter, with the capacity to do battle…