The Super Mario Galaxy Movie – A Derivative Freefall Matt Goddard Mushroom Kingdom, we have a problem.. The Super Mario Galaxy Movie power jumped onto the screen in 2023, defying all expectations. Illumination’s stunning animation and light-touch...
Project Hail Mary — An Intergalactic Rom-Com Matt Goddard Rock-solid cinematic fun. It is down to Ryan Gosling’s amnesiac fish out of water (AKA human out of earth) to kick off this year’s post-Awards blockbuster season. The masterminds behind it are...
The Secret Agent — A Brilliant Genre-Juggler Matt Goddard But the leg came back... The euphemism of a ‘mischievous time’ appears at the beginning and near the end of The Secret Agent. As the eye-catching symbol of a yellow VW Beetle recurs...
The Bride! — A Scream Of A Film She's really alive! Maggie Gyllenhaal’s confident love letter to cinema and primal, feminist scream is a theatrical tour de force. That means it demands to be seen on the biggest and loudest screen possible—it’s the only...
How to Make a Killing — A Wasted Plot Matt Goddard Kind hearts? There’s a moment about halfway through How To Make A Killing where Margaret Qualley’s Julia laments that she thought Glenn Powell’s Becket Redfellow would be more fun. You may well think the...
