Barnaby Turner

WHAT I LIKED: You can at least applaud 'Godzilla: King of The Monsters,' for its visuals, as every frame here is frankly breathtaking and the visual effects are virtually flawless. That and some great sound design mean that if you go to the cinema... Read the full review »

Reading the damming initial reviews for Dark Phoenix (2019) is quite frankly a pretty depressing exercise. After all, we're talking about a film which is billed (albeit tentatively) as the last hoorah from what is a hugely influential and successf... Read the full review »

WHAT I LIKED: Dexter Fletcher's Elton John biopic 'Rocketman' has not infrequently been compared to last summer's 'Bohemian Rhapsody' (which Fletcher also had a hand in making) and frankly it's not hard to see why. Both films follow glam-rock icon... Read the full review »

WHAT I LIKED: Martin Scorsese has always enjoyed pointing his camera at characters' everyday worlds. In Mean Streets he spent many moments just observing gangster meetings with little significance to the overall narrative, and Taxi Driver spent ag... Read the full review »

WHAT I LIKED: 'Raiders of the Lost Ark' harkens back to the adventure movies of years past, and like many of those, it serves entirely as decent, fluffy, cinema entertainment. Yes with plenty of fun obstacle courses, a narrative filled with mumbo... Read the full review »

WHAT I LIKED: Like the other John Wicks (and let's not kid ourselves by pretending that the these films are any different from each other), 'John Wick - Chapter 3: Pebblebum' is an exercise in how to do style-over-substance filmmaking right. It ta... Read the full review »