Barnaby Turner

WHAT I LIKED: On the one hand, 'You've Got Mail,' is a pretty cheesy romance movie elevated by performances from Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan. But more so than that, its interesting central concept about online personas vs reality elevates the film to s... Read the full review »

WHAT I LIKED: Rian Johnson’s ‘The Last Jedi,’ was all about Rey and Luke learning from the Jedi’s past mistakes and rejecting absolutes. But, in the end, it still descended into a classic battle between the First Order and the Resistance a... Read the full review »

WHAT I LIKED: 'The Muppet Christmas Carol,' is only so brilliant because it doesn't attempt to soften the message of its classic source material. Sure it's light-hearted and it mostly focuses on puppet characters, but crucially the hardship of the... Read the full review »

Writer/director Rian Johnson loves nothing more than subverting expectations. Brick - his first big-break - undercut classic noir in a high-school setting, his constantly twisty sci-fi venture Looper saw a brilliant unpacking of the age-old questi... Read the full review »

There's something strangely primal about the act of driving a car. Whether it's on the way from Huddersfield to Scunthorpe on a rainy Tuesday afternoon in a battered old Ford Fiesta, or looping a circuit for 24 hours in a million-pound supercar, t... Read the full review »