Barnaby Turner

WHAT I LIKED: Disney's live-action remakes have been a somewhat mixed bag. Some have unnecessarily altered great classics for no apparent end at all (*ahem* Beauty and The Beast), whilst others have felt like entirely pointless rehashes (I'm looki... Read the full review »

WHAT I LIKED: The Lion King follows a fairly simple script, but the way that it's brought to life gives the whole thing an impressive sense of grandeur and power which would have otherwise been lacking. Indeed a fairly small number of simple scene... Read the full review »

WHAT I LIKED: 'Olympus Has Fallen' was a preposterous film with a sickeningly patriotic story executed well enough to make for something enjoyable and engaging, and the one glimmer that remains from that here is Gerard Butler's performance which d... Read the full review »

WHAT I LIKED: There are lots of films out there about the danger of indulging in the vices of wild sex, hard drugs or extreme wealth, but what makes Paul Thomas Anderson's 'Boogie Nights' such a successful one is that it largely keeps a handle on... Read the full review »

WHAT I LIKED: There's no getting away from the fact that 'Olympus Has Fallen' is utterly preposterous and blindly patriotic to a sickening extent, but director Antoine Fuqua always seems to have the ability to make the ridiculous thoroughly grippi... Read the full review »

WHAT I LIKED: Every character in The Colour Purple is a very different, interesting, multi-layered person. And yet, all are victims of some kind of suppression at some point in their lives, all deal with that in different ways, and all ultimately... Read the full review »

WHAT I LIKED: A war movie was surely the ultimate genre for Kubrick to go for - not only because it was one not previously tackled by him, but also because it's the perfect place to explore the nature of man because war sees people pushed to their... Read the full review »

WHAT I LIKED: In many ways it could be argued that Barry Lyndon is Stanley Kubrick's first and only attempt at a serious character piece, and on the one hand that does make for an interesting film with someone at the centre you can (for once) inve... Read the full review »