Barnaby Turner

WHAT I LIKED: E.M Forster's book 'Maurice,' is a year-spaning tragedy that follows two young gentlemen fall in love at Cambridge university in the early 1900s, and their subsequent struggle through early adulthood to hide and then attempt to move... Read the full review »

WHAT I LIKED: Thanks to its story about a high-flying defence lawyer called Hank (Robert Downey Jr) returning to his smalltown childhood home to defend his judge father (Robert Duvall) from a murder charge, David Dobkin's 'The Judge,' is a film tr... Read the full review »

WHAT I LIKED: You can tell that 'Cold Pursuit,' is a Hollywood remake of a black Norwegian revenge movie when you're watching it. There are moments where director Hans Petter Moland takes the subject matter very seriously - showing Liam Neeson bro... Read the full review »

WHAT I LIKED: In its incredible, unexpected and tragic manipulation of plot and theme, Paul Thomas Anderson's second feature 'Magnolia,' is, wholeheartedly and undoubdtedly, an utter masterpiece of a film. It opens with a narrator explaining thre... Read the full review »

WHAT I LIKED: Dan Gilroy's 'Nightcrawler,' is a genius high-concept film about a strange, meticulous, unemphatic man called Lou (Jake Gyllenhaal) who begins filming bloody crime scenes in LA to sell footage to the media. We see local news broadcas... Read the full review »

WHAT I LIKED: Michael Mann's 'Blackhat,' follows a convicted hacker called Hathaway (Chris Hemsworth) as he joins the CIA and some old friends from Chinese Intelligence (Tang Wei and Wang Leehom) to track down a mysterious cyber-criminal network w... Read the full review »

WHAT I LIKED: On the one hand, James Gunn's 'The Suicide Squad,' seems intent on being as silly and irreverent as possible. Sure, like its (thankfully pretty unconnected) 2016 counterpart, the story is about a group of serious criminals with speci... Read the full review »

WHAT I LIKED: Like most Judd Apatow comedies, 'The 40-year Old Virgin,' takes amusing and often disgusting stereotypes and social norms and ridicules and undermines them. This one in particular is about a quiet and lonely 40-year old called Andy (... Read the full review »