Barnaby Turner

WHAT I LIKED: The previous Poirot movies are much of a pulpy muchness, but 'A Haunting in Venice,' infuses horror into the usual whodunit formula to properly keep you on the edge of your seat. Rather than just being about finding a murderer, the... Read the full review »

WHAT I LIKED: Not just because it's about a bunch of female convicts, but because they're all chasing the impossibility of public admiration more than they are their freedom, 'Chicago,' is a musical all about hollow dreams. Its story mostly focus... Read the full review »

WHAT I LIKED: 'The Last Wish,' finds Puss in Boots is on the last of his nine lives, and this forces him to confront his mortality, first by going to the "old-folks home," of a crazy cat lady to preserve his immortality, but eventually finding pea... Read the full review »

WHAT I LIKED: Paul Thomas Anderson's 'There Will Be Blood,' is one of the greatest illustrations of the effects of capitalism and the American Dream ever put to film. Set in early America when the system of buying and selling commodities was stri... Read the full review »

WHAT I LIKED: Even in the schlockiest of films, it's hard to take your eyes off Adam Sandler's vacant stare and ridiculously tenacious determination. But when a spiralling slew of obstacles are placed in front of him, that simple, dogged quality c... Read the full review »

Surrounding an initially conventional biopic is a fascinating, cinematic dissection of a character and the horrifying power he unleashed. Oppenheimer treats the creator of the atom bomb as just another tool of the men in charge, and through Nolan�... Read the full review »

WHAT I LIKED: Gareth Edwards' directorial debut 'Monsters,' takes place in a quarantine in Mexico after huge, murdering aliens have arrived, and it follows a woman and a photojournalist hired by her father to get her back to America. What makes i... Read the full review »