Margot Robbie
Mary Queen of Scots has no shortage of talent in front of the camera to make it one of this year’s most overlooked but satisfactory films.
In The LEGO Movie 2, the citizens are facing a huge new threat: LEGO DUPLO® invaders from outer space, wrecking everything faster than they can rebuild.
With Slaughterhouse Rulez, it seems Simon Pegg and Nick Frost haven’t quite let go of the comedy/horror genre, only this time with a different director and with uneven results.
Mary Stuart’s attempt to overthrow her cousin Elizabeth I, Queen of England, finds her condemned to years of imprisonment before facing execution.
Inspired by Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland, Terminal is visually and thematically strong, despite its over-simple script and occasional over-acting – all in all a promising directorial debut for Vaughn Stein.
I, Tonya is a refreshingly dark comedy biopic about the famous 1994 Tonya Harding incident, and is laden with incredible performances.
Goodbye Christopher Robin has some redeeming value to it, but it is ultimately too painful for people who love Winnie the Pooh.
Suite Française is an adaptation of Irène Némirovsky’s novel of the same name. Prior to seeing the film I had no knowledge of its provenance, and will withhold this particular information for now lest it misinform how you read the rest of this review. As always, I will attempt to remain objective.
One of the worst clichés that appears in an alarmingly large number of movies is the “two kinds of people in this world” speech. In Focus, Will Smith’s suave con artist Nicky Spurgeon tells his protégé/part-time lover Jess Barrett (Margot Robbie) his version of the done-to-death cliché: there are two types of people, hammers and nails.