The Kid Who Would Be King (2019)
Joe Cornish made a nice, albeit low-key (by today’s standards), leap from TV to movies as a writer-director with 2011’s surprise cult sleeper, Attack the Block, and as a screenwriter the same year with Spielberg’s...
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Darkest Hour (2017)
Set in May, 1940, we see an anxious United Kingdom worried about the impending rise of Nazi Germany, under the command of Adolf Hitler. Out goes Neville Chamberlain (Pickup, The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel),...
Their Finest (2016)
Set in 1940, around the time of the London Blitz during World War II, Their Finest stars Gemma Arterton (The Girl with All the Gifts, Gemma Bovery) as Catrin Cole, a fledgling screenwriter from Wales who has...
The Legend of Tarzan (2016)
Based on characters created by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Alexander Skarsgard (Zoolander 2, Hidden) stars as John Clayton III of Greystoke Manor, an earl living comfortably in London during the Victorian Era, whose past has made...
Now You See Me 2 (2016)
The makers of the deliberately vapid and highly superfluous Now You See Me 2 have chosen to fully embrace the dumbness of its premise, going full bore into just trying to make it ridiculous to the...
Alice Through the Looking Glass (2016)
2010’s Alice in Wonderland wasn’t really a great film, but it did rake in a hefty billion dollars from the worldwide box office, so, naturally, that’s going to green-light a sequel just about every time. Six...
Absolutely Anything (2015)
Monty Python’s Terry Jones directs and co-scripts this silly special effects-driven comedy, reportedly inspired by an H.G. Wells story (“The Man Who Could Work Miracles”), that delivers on a few decent laughs, but not...
About Time (2013)
Domhnall Gleeson stars as a young London lawyer named Tim Lake, whose recent heart-to-heart birthday chat with his usually undemonstrative father (Nighy) reveals an astonishing secret. It seems that men in their family line have...
Gaslight (1944)
Gaslight opens in Victorian-era London, with the death of acclaimed opera diva Alice Alquist, who had been strangled by someone trying to heist her jewels, and who still looms at large. The scene shifts to...
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
The Man Who Knew Too Much is one of the rare instances of a director remaking one of his own earlier works. This 1956 release is the better known of the two, with the original having been...