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2045 AD. The deceased James Halliday (Mark Rylance) has left his massive fortune inside his defining creation: OASIS, the massive virtual universe people use to escape from the crumbling real world. Halliday left clues on how to inherit his worth that are related to his own insular upbringing, so only the most obsessed with 80's video games and films will find the needed 'Easter egg'. It is up to the ordinary 'gunters' to find it before the monopolistic IOI, who...

With the plethora of boxing films that get released each year, it would have been easy for actor turned writer-director Paddy Considine to have produced a film comprising of genre tropes and clichés. Forgoing our usual expectations, Journeyman looks at the lasting injuries that can be obtained in the ring and the often overlooked challenges they create. The film follows Middleweight Champion Matty Burton (Paddy Considine), who is nearly at the end of his career and has one last fight...

Shot on an iPhone7 Plus, and costing just over $1 million to make, Steven Soderbergh’s latest feature film Unsane is a ballsy & brave foray into thriller territory from a director who has never been afraid of pushing the boundaries, and making do with what is available to him in the pursuit of innovative projects. Staring Claire Foy (The Crown) as a young woman who finds herself involuntarily committed to a mental institution, Unsane manages to offer a truly riveting,...

Fans of watching big robots and Kaiju-style monsters hitting each other repeatedly, destroying everything around them for good measure, rejoice! Everyone else, you might want to sit this one out, because if you were expecting anything resembling a coherent story from the follow up to Guillermo del Toro's 2013 blockbuster behemoth Pacific Rim, then you will be sorely disappointed. Directed by Steven S. DeKnight, and starring John Boyega - who incidentally is also credited as producer on the movie -...

While those of you on this side of the pond are unlikely to be familiar with A Wrinkle In Time: Madeleine L’Engle’s seminal YA novel, originally published in the early 60s, and the first instalment in her highly lauded ‘Time Quintet’ series. Over in America the book is something of a childhood mainstay, studied in classrooms for more than fifty years now, and beloved by many for its intellectual & emotional underpinnings. This warm-hearted and well-intentioned adaptation from Ava DuVernay...

Liam Neeson stars in a new take on the Watergate scandal, flipping the perspective from journalists-on-the-street to an examination from the highest offices of power. FBI second-in-command Mark Felt had an unparalleled view on the US government at the time that Richard Nixon was implicated in Watergate, and his vantage point shows that the scandal was just icing sugar on a deeply corrupt cake. Based on a true story of the most famous anonymous man in American history, Felt became...

Films that fall under the banner of ‘Biblical Epic’ tend to follow the rule that for every Last Temptation of Christ there is a Passion of The Christ. Mary Magdalene is the latest film to fit comfortably under the banner of ‘Biblical Epic’, and it’s from the director Garth Davis of last year’s heartstring twanger, Lion. Rooney Mara plays the titular character, and for the first forty-five minutes she is in every single frame. Mara’s performance is composed and engaging....

Lara Croft (Alicia Vikander) has forsaken her family fortune to become a London bicycle courier and amateur MMA fighter. After receiving an item from her missing (presumed dead) father, Lara goes in search of a cursed island in Japan carrying ancient treasure and an awful secret. After many of years in need of a revival, a new Tomb Raider game was launched in 2013, taking us to the origins of this pistol wielding archaeologist/thief. Jokes about DD pixels became obsolete;...

Alex Garland’s seat at the directors table is one that he has worked for.  Before he cut his teeth behind the camera with the superbly crafted sci-fi techno thriller, Ex Machina, Garland penned novels and screenplays, the likes of which, The Beach and 28 Days Later, have cemented themselves as cult classics.  With his sophomore feature, Annihilation, Garland swings for the fences and knocks a curve ball out of the park.  It is as ambitious in its mediations as it...