Superman’s jizz creates a monster in Brightburn, a one-note but chillingly effective horror movie
What are the most effective parental techniques to deal with the realisation that your child is made from Satan’s spawn?
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The amazing cynicism of Rocko’s Modern Life
This 90s classic is an astonishingly cynical show: weird, wild, bawdy and coarse.
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Knock Down the House and Peterloo make perfect post-election palate cleansers
Tired of the endless waffle coming from our political leaders? These two films might be just what the doctor ordered.
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Detective Pikachu is risk-averse goop, with a thoroughly kickable CGI sidekick
Ah yes: the bad movie with the cute, furry, out-of-this-world thing and human actors attempting to keep a straight face.
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The Ted Bundy biopic Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile is empty and pointless
The director seem determined to avoid answering any of the questions that might have made this film interesting.
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Fyre Fraud is finally arriving in Australia. Should you bother watching?
Both films are compulsively watchable in a shield your eyes sort of way, appealing to the sadist in all of us.
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The exhilarating spectacle of Beyoncé’s Homecoming
This dazzling documentary is destined to be the concert movie of the year, if not the decade.
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Shazam! was OK, but the 2010 film Super is a truly superb superhero comedy
What, you might ask, does an inventive, edgy and dangerously good superhero comedy look like?
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Why the Shaun the Sheep Movie is a modern masterpiece
This magnificent production doesn’t get the kudos it deserves.
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Netflix’s horror movie The Silence is a dreadfully dull Stephen King knockoff
The writing in The Silence is stodgy and the execution pedestrian, with an insufferable air of ennui smothering the life out of it.
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Galveston is a beautifully made crime drama with soul and pathos
A deeply compelling and memorable crime drama adapted from a book by the author of True Detective.
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Now you’ve seen the Joker trailer, here’s the crazy film that inspired this iconic villain
Did you know that the character of the Joker was inspired by a trippy 1928 German film?
