Barnaby Turner

WHAT I LIKED: The only reason that Peter Jackson's first faithful recreation of the Lord of The Rings books successfully engages you for almost four hours is that it does a great job of building multiple characters that you care about so that the... Read the full review »

WHAT I LIKED: Ben Affleck's directorial debut 'Gone Baby Gone,' is a well-constructed thriller with a great twisty plot and an unusual and interesting moral question surrounding its conclusion. What's most notable however is that that's only made... Read the full review »

WHAT I LIKED: Gillian Flynn and David Fincher's 'Gone Girl,' is one of those films that stays with you for days, and - beyond its surprising twists and turns - the reason for that is the startling way that it deals with its prevalent social themes... Read the full review »

WHAT I LIKED: On a literal level, Steve McQueen and Gillian Flynn's 'Widows,' is a film about four women planning a heist after their criminal husbands get killed, but it's also a film about the constructs of power, deprivation and racial/genderal... Read the full review »

WHAT I LIKED: Whilst its story was largely simple and inconsequential, the first Fantastic Beasts movie was well-intended and had some nice world-building and likeable characters in the forms of Eddie Redmayne's Newt and some comedic supporting pl... Read the full review »

WHAT I LIKED: 'Star Wars: The Clone Wars,' is literally just an extra-long Clone Wars episode that preceded the rest, and as someone who rather loves the subsequent series, I have to say that's no bad thing as far as I'm concerned. Why? Well what... Read the full review »

WHAT I LIKED: After three incredible feature films about dreams, Damien Chazelle has decided to turn his head to the story of Niel Armstrong's moon landing with 'First Man,' but what's surprising about this movie is that it's not really about drea... Read the full review »