Barnaby Turner

WHAT I LIKED: It would be possible to depict a modern-day American 'Civil War,' in many different ways, but Alex Garland's new film is simply devoted to translating the indiscriminate horror and insanity of war to its audience. That may be well-wo... Read the full review »

WHAT I LIKED: When it comes to something as awful as genocide, it's very easy to think of the perpetrators as entirely inhuman. But in following the daily lives of an SS Officer and his family in their house just outside Auschwitz, Jonathan Glazer... Read the full review »

WHAT I LIKED: Be it your race, gender or sexuality, your cultural identity plays a big part in defining who you are. But if you're part of a marginalised group, the chances are that identity will also limit your life chances. Adapted from the nov... Read the full review »

Dune: Part 2 lives up to all of its predecessor’s promises as a bold, non-stop, gut-punch of an epic that’s brimming with intense conflicts about leadership, power and prophecy. Full review available at: https://barneyonmovies.wordpress.com/2... Read the full review »

WHAT I LIKED: Park Chan-Wook's 'Oldboy,' is a film about a man called Dae-Su hunting down the people who captured and imprisoned him for fifteen years. What makes it different from your average genre movie though is that the prospect of finding th... Read the full review »

WHAT I LIKED: 'Wonka,' is another musical about a guy with a dream. A great chocolate maker (Timothee Chalamet) arrives in London hoping to open his first shop, but much to his surprise, the city's "chocolate cartel," (Matt Lucas, Paterson Joseph... Read the full review »