Alex Crisp

Bringing full-blooded action realism to a famous franchise drowning in spy-fi, Casino Royale seemingly heralded a new golden age of James Bond films.

Adroit, confident, and bruising, its new-look approach […]

Kindred love and a fraying marriage embrace in a sturdy drama that shuttles back and forth between Switzerland and Berlin.

★★★★✰

Co-directed and co-written by Stéphanie Chuat and Véronique Reymon, muc […]

Since erupting in 2011, Syria’s Civil War has claimed the lives of up to 600,000 people and triggered a refugee crisis of even greater proportions. The Man Who Sold His Skin isn’t a war film, instead using the […]

Picture Stories takes its name both from the picture story format and from Picture Post, an acclaimed mid-20th century photojournalism magazine. The magazine ran from 1938 until 1957, and at its peak would sell […]

Deep into the Second World War, István Semetka is a corporal in the Axis aligned Hungarian army. Being tasked with hunting down anti-Axis partisans, Semetka’s humanity is pushed to the limit. […]

“That’s a horrible title” laments our lead during the conclusion, referencing a painting from which the film takes its name. Self-ironic deprecation is far from the worst thing about ‘Ride the Eagle’ t […]

History contains all kinds of nooks and crannies, and this life-of-print takes us down the byways of one in particular.

★★★✰✰

I wondered why I had never heard of photojournalism magazine Picture Post, the […]

★★★★✰

This John David Washington-led Netflix thriller counts a cosmopolitan outlook, and a deceptive cineliteracy, among its arsenal. Paying homage to a great British director along with touches of a classic G […]

No man is an island, entire of itself…  For whom the bus tolls? It tolls for thee.

★★★✰✰

Signifying its mortal intentions with a definitive title, The Last Bus is a road movie that travels at the rate and […]

★★✰✰✰

The man behind ‘Hamilton’ meets the studio behind the ‘Spider-Verse’ for ‘Vivo’ a film that’s nothing like either.

With Pixar’s increasingly inconsistent output showing little sign of sharpening up […]

Tom Hanks has joined the cast of an as-yet-untitled film, to be directed by famously eccentric auteur Wes Anderson.

The Forrest Gump star’s name is the latest in a star-studded line-up that also features […]

★★★✰✰

The Nest is a 1980s ‘period’ drama about the collapse of a married couple’s relationship and the disintegration of a family unit. Don’t expect fun times with this one.

Ahead of The Nest’s UK rel […]

★★★✰✰

The Worst-Heroes-Ever are back, and this time they don’t fall into the trap of living up to their billing. Alexander Crisp reviews.

Five years ago, Suicide Squad entered cinemas terrificall […]

*Spoilers ahead*

★★✰✰✰

M. Night “It’s Getting Old” Shyamalan is back for another round of the supernatural and the underwhelming. The gimmick this time? A beach where a day ages you a lifetime.   […]

The next film in the Paddington franchise is now officially in development.

StudioCanal have confirmed that a third instalment in the popular family-friendly series will begin filming in the second quarter of […]

★★★✰✰

Romances, séances and sadnesses: it must be Paris. Michelle Pfeiffer stars in Azazel Jacob’s French Exit, but with a performance that is the wrong side of OTT, the film verges on ridiculous. Alexander […]

Matthew Robinson has signed on to write Rogue Squadron, a Patty Jenkins-directed Star Wars movie currently in development.

Robinson already has experience with blockbuster cinema, having rewritten the script […]

Based on a book of the same name purportedly written (more on that later) by Naoki Higashida—a Japanese man with nonverbal autism—The Reason I Jump from director Jerry Rothwell follows the lives of people aro […]

Steven Spielberg has signed a multi-year deal to produce movies for Netflix.

The filmmaker’s production company Amblin Partners will be partnering up with the streaming giant that, according to Deadline, ” […]

Netflix have released the first official trailer for Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans, a feature-length film based on Guillermo del Toro’s animated Tales of Arcadia franchise.

Del Toro will be serving as an e […]