Barnaby Turner

WHAT I LIKED: 'How to Drain Your Dragon,' has a great story about an island of Vikings who hunt and kill dragons, and a young boy who goes against his elders to befriend the most dangerous one of all after he secretly shoots it down. It's a classi... Read the full review »

WHAT I LIKED: Surrealism is often a term used to describe anything in a film that has no obvious rational meaning or relation to reality, and there are many scenes in David Lowery's adaptation of King Arthur's nephew Gawain confronting 'The Green... Read the full review »

The Bond films always used to be pretty standalone, but Daniel Craig's era changed that with the introduction of an actual, continuous character arc. By now we've seen him go from fresh-faced double-0, to MI6's untrusting, cold-blooded killing mac... Read the full review »

WHAT I LIKED: Curtis Hanson's 'L.A. Confidential,' follows a team of 1950s cops investigating a suspicious mass-murder, but unlike some Police procedurals which are all about the mystery, this one is most of all about Police ineptitude and corrupt... Read the full review »

WHAT I LIKED: Shawn Levy's 'Free Guy,' is a high-concept video game movie for people who don't like video games all that much, so it appeals very much to me. It follows Ryan Reynolds as an NPC (non-player character) called Guy in a typically absu... Read the full review »

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WHAT I LIKED: Bill Forsyth's 'Local Hero,' follows an American oil executive called Mac (Peter Riegert) who's sent to the Scottish village of Ferness on the pretence that he's supposed to win the locals round to aquiring their land for development... Read the full review »