Film Review

By Preston Wilder It’s been a year of two Cypriot films – or more properly three, except the third one isn’t really Cypriot. We actually

By Preston Wilder Marvel goes meta in Spider-Man: Far From Home, now approaching the inevitable phase where everything that happens in the MCU (Marvel Cinematic

By Preston Wilder Annabelle comes home, ‘home’ being the double-locked artefacts room in the Warren residence where the demonic doll is kept behind glass –

By Preston Wilder I’m a bit concerned by the title of Yesterday, taking its cue from the dodgiest angle in this still-quite-enjoyable British comedy –

By Preston Wilder First things first, for parents who might be skimming this: Toy Story 4 may be slightly scary for very young children (the

By Preston Wilder You’re Dale Launer, a 67-year-old screenwriter. You were big in the 80s, writing smash-hit farces like Ruthless People, My Cousin Vinny and

By Preston Wilder Let’s be honest: how excited are we really for Men in Black: International, 22 years after the first one and a full

By Preston Wilder Welcome to X-Men, the Yahoo of superhero franchises. Back in 2000 or thereabouts (which was also the year of the first X-Men

By Preston Wilder I’d love to know what Harmony Korine said to get the money for The Beach Bum (not crazy money, only about $5

By Nikola Grozdanovic When Elton John (brilliantly portrayed by Taron Egerton, but more on that later) finds the courage to go on stage at Los

By Preston Wilder A little imagination is a dangerous thing in Brightburn, a sci-fi/horror oddity that comes with ideas but only ends up causing problems

By Preston Wilder Somewhere, I assume, there’s a Disney executive who looks back on the 1992 Aladdin and sees not an exuberant cartoon with a

By Preston Wilder Buster Keaton – the great Silent comic known for his witty, fearless stunts – appears briefly at the very start of John

By Preston Wilder Cypriot cinema comes of age in Smuggling Hendrix, a comedy that’s already done us proud by winning a number of awards (notably

By Preston Wilder Why get angry? This is what diasporas do. The Armenian diaspora did it a couple of years ago with The Promise, a

By Preston Wilder If war is the continuation of diplomacy by other means, then Avengers: Endgame is the continuation of Comic Con – which took