Stop Motion has NEVER looked this good in Wildwood – A Review
The Review contains no spoilers. Good God, this was beautiful. There is a glorious extravagance to building a world this detailed and then giving it inhabitants capable of competing with it for your attention. Wildwood’s sets are gorgeous, intricate enough to reward looking beyond whoever happens to...
War Machine Gets Away With Far Too Much – A Review
War Machine had me gripped by sequences I thought were colossally stupid. I worried about whether these people would get out while also wondering why they had ended up in that situation. Director Patrick Hughes sends Alan Ritchson through Army Ranger selection, then sets an enormous...
Short of Style, Starved of Substance in The Uprising – A Review
This review contains minor spoilers. Watching The Uprising, I kept having to ask whether the things making me angry had actually happened. Paul Greengrass’s film spends a long time struggling to make its rebellion compelling, then reaches for events the historical record does not support. Andrew Garfield...
We Bought What They Were Selling, A Defence of Digger – A Review
This review contains no spoilers for Digger (2026). The more volatile the response to Digger became, the more I needed to see it. By opening night, critics and early audiences were calling Iñárritu’s film everything from a masterpiece to an insufferable disaster to the death knell of...