The Disaster Artist

The story of the making of what many consider to be the worst film of all time is chronicled in James Franco’s The Disaster Artist I’ll start by addressing the biggest question that people will have before going into this film. Whether it’s essential to see The Room or not will probably inform many decisions to…

Nerve

Henry Jost and Ariel Schulman try to show audiences what goes on when young people are buried in their phone screens seemingly ignorant of all that is going on around them in their dare themed thriller Nerve. I must admit that it saddens me to use the term “young people” in the introduction to this…

Now You See Me 2

Jon M. Chu’s Now You See Me 2 is the sequel that nobody asked for to a film that –as far as I can tell- nobody loved enough to want to see more. It must have made money otherwise we wouldn’t be here. This time out, the Horsemen are tasked with stealing a computer chip…

Bad Neighbours 2/Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising

First thing to say about Nicholas Stoller’s (Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Get Him to the Greek) Bad Neighbours 2 (or Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising in the U.S.) is that it’s not really a film. It’s basically a set of implausible excuses for a series of gross-out set-pieces that barely constitute a plot. The thing is, it’s…