Barnaby Turner

We’re living in an age of superheroes, and cinema has never looked more masculine. Now though, we have Barbie, a blockbuster built to step on all of that flexing muscle, clanging metal and explosions (CF. Oppenheimer) with dainty pink heels, blo... Read the full review »

Dead Reckoning Part 1 may be as preposterous as a comic strip, but, as ever, the reason it’s so gripping to watch this hero diligently put his life on the line is that he’s a normal human being, being played by a (relatively) normal guy, who�... Read the full review »

WHAT I LIKED: The exaggerated, cartoonish way that Wes Anderson frames and directs his actors and environments has always made me feel that he's a satirist above all else, and his latest film 'Asteroid City,' is no exception. It centres around a... Read the full review »

WHAT I LIKED: Darren Aronofsky and Samuel D. Hunter's 'The Whale,' is about a morbidly obese man called Charlie (played brilliantly by Brendan Fraser) who's close to dying, and it follows him throughout the course of a week in his apartment. Betwe... Read the full review »

WHAT I LIKED: Ari Aster's 'Midsommar,' opens with some of the best character introductions you could possibly imagine. We see a young woman called Dani (Florence Pugh) struggling with her sister's mental health problems, her boyfriend playing ever... Read the full review »

WHAT I LIKED: The thing that's generally most compelling about the Spider-Man character is that he has to juggle the teenage angst of finding a place in the world with the responsibility of being a superhero. The story in 'Across the Spider-verse,... Read the full review »

WHAT I LIKED: Like his previous film, Alex Garland's 'Annihilation,' is all about suspense, as it follows a group of scientists venturing into an area of forest that's under the manipulation of a strange alien force called "the Shimmer." Their mis... Read the full review »