It Ends With Us adapts Colleen Hoover’s highly successful 2016 novel to the big screen. Going into this film I wasn’t familiar with the novel and based on the trailer, had some trepidation that it would be a generic romantic drama. There are familiar elements here, as well as a few clunky moments but it was a more affecting film
Read moreA Simple Favour from Bridesmaids director Paul Feig is an intriguing, mildly intoxicating and mostly successful attempt to transplant a classic film noir scenario to contemporary sunlit suburbia. Built around modern female anxieties, the film stars Anna Kendrick as nerdy, buttoned-down Stepford wife-like widower Stephanie. She tries to present herself as the ultimate in committed and resourceful mothers through her
Read moreEver since Jaws terrified beach-goers out of the water in 1975, sharks have been a cinematic symbol of menace and primal terror. There’s something particularly unnerving about floating around in the vast inky blackness of the ocean knowing that a huge, hungry razor-tooth creature could appear from nowhere and start munching on you. The Shallows, the latest film from Non-stop
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