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Review: Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw

Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw, an offshoot of the mega-successful franchise, is a big, shiny and expensive toy. It's the kind of...

Female empowerment and female objectification have always gone hand in hand in Luc Besson's films. This has always been a strangely...

In The Nutcracker and the Four Realms, Keira Knightley is a delectable combination of Marilyn Monroe, Betty Boop, and Gwen Stefani as the...

"Dominic Toretto just went rogue," Dwayne Johnson's Luke Hobbs declares and, with that, The Fate of the Furious revs up its engines,...

Will Smith bikes a lot in Collateral Beauty. Sometimes he cries whilst biking. Mostly he's mad. It doesn't really matter for Collateral...

Technological advances may have allowed countries to conduct so-called armchair wars, where battles can be fought not on the ground where...

"I've got nobody else to be. I did what I had to do." The words are spoken by actor Edward G. Robinson (Michael Stuhlbarg), but they...

It does not necessarily follow that a film will suffer if one of its principal players is miscast. Nor does it follow that a film cannot...

With Steven Spielberg and Oprah Winfrey as two of its producers, one can expect The Hundred-Foot Journey to be one of two things: a drama...

De Niro. Pacino. Hoffman. The unvain gods who helped shape modern cinema, the turks who made the glory days of the Seventies their own...