The Thicket is an enjoyable and gritty western set in a snowy landscape where a perfect Peter Dinklage plays a bounty hunter searching for Thicket Bill, a cold-blooded killer played by Juliette Lewis – both give great performances. Dinklage also has a very uncharacteristic group of sidekicks and you care about each of…

The Age of Adaline ten years on, no longer dealing with the travails of age, but this time with relationship violence, only far less nostalgically old-school. With Blake Lively, a piano, and autumnal Boston, it's a bit of a safe bet in a sense, because those basic building blocks rarely end in fiascos, and neither…

A showcase of top-tier animation, blending various techniques and styles, including seamless 3D you barely notice, and a festival of creativity with shots you wouldn’t expect in anime (even live-action ones!). This season—and probably the entire year—doesn’t have a series with better animation or more creativity. Plus…

A pure genre pleasure. Don't look for a story as such, the answers to questions like "who? what? why?" are obscured. The likeable protagonist (the already proven scream queen Samara Weaving) is simply dealing with some post-apocalyptic cult and humanoid monsters. It's one big, 80-minute horror ride, with some really…

Gushing Over Magical Girls has been the talk of the town this season, splitting the anime community into two distinct camps. On one side, you have those who find the series repulsive — its overt explicitness combined with the young age of most of the girls here leaves a sour taste, harvesting more contempt than praise…

Joe Begos on a coke-fueled rampage against aliens—an 80-minute lobotomy-inducing splatter ride that takes place entirely within the confines of a single apartment. It's like a teenage horror fan grabbed a 16mm camera for the first time and roped in some buddies to shoot a DIY movie. Maybe Begos got nostalgic during…

It's not a tragedy, but compared to the previous seasons, which rode a dramatic wave, a criminal and suspenseful atmosphere gradually revealing the pieces of the puzzle, it's a diametric drop into the depths of screenwriting crap. It's as if the creators ran out of ideas and used the first thing that popped up into…

It's hard to find a better, funnier, more relaxed series. What We Do in the Shadows is definitely the best I've ever seen. It doesn't have a bad episode, there's an overabundance of humour in every one, a witty story and a great plot, the cast is without question the best, the European accent of the English only adds…

Sometimes good, sometimes worse. Visually mediocre, with unremarkable acting (because the actors are wearing masks the whole film and the sound underwater is dodgy) and with a script that is bland, flat and poorly thought-out. Most of the time underwater, the film shuffles in place, as if it didn’t know how to engage…

Similar story, different actors, but the same shit. High school drama mixed with an underwater fantasy Mayan city and a blind, "devolved" bloodthirsty shark. As bad as it sounds on paper, it looks bad on film. Not to mention that the atmosphere was zero, there was only one decent scare, and the shark was artificial to…