Ben Oliver

Home

Articles

Subscribe

Contact

About

Now

Links

Take 2: Mission: Impossible - Fallout

Take 2: Mission: Impossible - Fallout

"I'm jumping out a window!"

I love this film, and I love that everyone loves this film. Old school practical effects applied to fresh new set pieces make for a compelling and fun thriller I will never tire of watching.

January 26 - 14:00 UTC

Take 2: Crazy Rich Asians

Saw this about a year ago and I can’t say my view of it has really changed. A surprisingly formulaic rom-com that holds the audience’s hand too much.

January 25 - 21:00 UTC

A group of women attempt to pull off a heist at the Met Gala in New York. Their target: a $150,000,000 Cartier necklace.

January 24 - 21:00 UTC

A man’s (Liam Neeson) son dies in an apparent drug overdose. Knowing there is more to the story than a simple OD, Liam hits the road in his snow plow and slowly hunts his way to the top of a drug gang, picking off henchmen one by one.

January 17 - 21:00 UTC

Varda by Agnès

A two hour retrospective on the career of Belgian-French director and photographer Agnès Varda, assembled by the woman herself.

January 17 - 17:00 UTC

This is a remake of a remake, which as A Star is Born has shown isn’t always a bad thing. The Hustle is bad though. Really bad.

January 14 - 20:00 UTC

Quite the step up for Greta Gerwig. Her 2017 debut Lady Bird was an inspired coming-of-age drama, and here she’s been given more money, a bigger cast and a well known text to play with. Where many would stumble, she has taken this in her stride and made another excellent film.

January 12 - 19:00 UTC

A Chinese family find out their grandmother is dying of cancer. They decide not to tell her, instead holding a shotgun wedding for a cousin as an excuse to get the family together. This is particularly shocking for a small side of the family who now live in the US.

January 12 - 15:00 UTC

A family has their holiday interrupted when doppelgangers appear at their door and start trying to kill them with scissors.

January 10 - 17:00 UTC

A film adaptation of the hit musical, which in itself is an adaptation of the T.S. Eliot collection of poems.

January 04 - 16:00 UTC

A journalist down on his luck (Seth Rogen) has a chance encounter with an old school crush (Charlize Theron), who is now the US Secretary of State. They hit it off and she hires him as her speech writer, against the advice of her aides.

December 31 - 22:00 UTC

Three old men (Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman, Alan Arkin) are down on their luck, their pensions scrapped and the bank threatening to foreclose on their houses. They hatch a plan to rob a bank and make back the money they lost.

December 23 - 19:00 UTC

Anna and the Apocalypse

When a zombie outbreak happens at Christmas, a group of British high school kids fight for their lives.

December 22 - 21:00 UTC

A struggling musician gets hit by a bus, on awaking he finds he is the only person alive who knows anything about The Beatles. He gains great success from pretending the songs are his, but at what cost?

December 20 - 21:00 UTC

A businessman fakes his own kidnapping on a trip to Mexico. It goes tits up when he gets kidnapped for real.

December 18 - 20:00 UTC

In a world where everything you see is recorded and can be played back in your eyeline, things go awry when a hacker breaks into the system and starts doctoring footage of murders. Detective Clive Owen investigates, following a lead he sees on the street (Amanda Seyfried), but things get tricky as his eyes begin to deceive him.

December 17 - 19:00 UTC

The story of Dick Cheney, George Bush Jr’s Vice President, and the way he leveraged the role to garner himself an unusual amount of power.

December 16 - 20:00 UTC

Will Ferrell’s gurning rubs me the wrong way a bit in a few scenes, but otherwise Elf captures a merry dose of Christmas cheer like few festive films do.

December 15 - 19:00 UTC

Frank Sheeran (Robert De Niro), a mob hitman, recalls his involvement with the Bufalino crime family and his possible role in the assassination of Jimmy Hoffa (Al Pacino).

December 14 - 22:00 UTC

The Spy Who Dumped Me

Two friends (Mila Kunis, Kate McKinnon) get into trouble when they find out one of their (recently ex-) boyfriends is a spy. When he gets shot dead in front of them, he gives them a contact to find in Europe. They travel over the Atlantic to follow the lead.

December 13 - 20:00 UTC

Take 2: Die Hard

They put this on at the cinema this year, and it was a joy to see it blown up (fnar fnar) on the big screen. Last time I was surprised at how festive the film is, when it is usually considered as a joke inclusion to Christmas film lists.

December 10 - 21:00 UTC

Frozen II shimmies away from conventional Disney narrative into what feels like a kid’s version of Annihilation. In fact, it’s at its best when it ventures into abstraction, providing dazzling visuals for its bold, artsy set pieces.

December 06 - 21:00 UTC

Ant-Man and the Wasp

After the events of Captain America Civil War, Ant-Man is under house arrest. To tell you the truth I can’t remember what he did wrong in that film. Anyway he’s trying to be a good dad to his kid and live a normal life when a new mission presents itself, promising to unearth secrets from Hank Pym’s (the creator of the Ant-Man suit) past.

December 05 - 21:00 UTC

When the head of a wealthy family (Christopher Plummer) dies by apparent suicide, famous detective Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) arrives on the scene to reveal there is more to the case than meets the eye.

December 01 - 21:00 UTC

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

Three Americans in Mexico, down on their luck and looking for work, go out on a search for gold in the mountains. As they find what they seek, greed, crime and nature begin to work against them.

November 29 - 19:00 UTC

An alien woman with super powers (Brie Larson) discovers things about her background that lead her back to earth.

November 24 - 10:00 UTC

A father and daughter take the train to Busan. While onboard, a zombie outbreak starts to grip the nation and the survivors must fend for themselves while on the move.

November 22 - 19:00 UTC

A look at the businessmen and politicians surrounding Italian Prime Minister and media tycoon Silvio Berlusconi (Toni Servillo), from 2006-2009.

November 15 - 20:00 UTC

Around the World in 80 Days

An astonishingly large production of Jules Verne’s Victorian novel.

November 13 - 20:00 UTC

A life-long con artist (Ian McKellen) finds an easy mark (Helen Mirren) on an online dating site. As he grows close to her, her grandson grows suspicious of him and he must do what he can to avoid getting rumbled.

November 09 - 16:00 UTC

A Victorian meteorologist (Eddie Redmayne) enlists the help of a hot air balloon pilot (Felicity Jones) to gather data on the weather and attempt the highest flight in the history of mankind.

November 03 - 19:00 UTC

View all articles