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A Cure For Wellness - 2 Stars
Watchable, yet a three-hour runtime may deter most viewers. An ambitious young executive is sent to retrieve his company's CEO from an...

Benjamin Maio Mackay
Mar 16, 20171 min read
Fist Fight - 1 Star
Dumb action comedy jabs a finger at the American public school system. When one school teacher (Charlie Day) gets the other (Ice Cube)...

Benjamin Maio Mackay
Mar 9, 20171 min read
Kong: Skull Island - 4 Stars
Scary, thrilling, human and well-written. Despite all the odds Kong is a great horror film. A team of explorers and soldiers travel to an...

Benjamin Maio Mackay
Mar 9, 20171 min read
A Few Less Men - 0.5 Stars
This movie is a sequel to a film no-one remembers and people certainly didn't ask for. In the comedy sequel to the worldwide hit A FEW...

Benjamin Maio Mackay
Mar 9, 20171 min read
Beauty and the Beast - 5 Stars
This live action adaptation, brings a darker, albeit brilliant musical tale to our screens. BEAUTY AND THE BEAST is the fantastic journey...

Benjamin Maio Mackay
Mar 4, 20172 min read
Miss Sloane - 4 Stars
This powerful and thought provoking film shines a brighter light on America’s gun crisis. In the high-stakes world of political...

Benjamin Maio Mackay
Mar 2, 20171 min read
Alone in Berlin - 1.5 Stars
Beautiful cinematography fails to save this slow moving bio-pic. Berlin, 1940. Working class couple Otto and Anna Quangel receive the...

Benjamin Maio Mackay
Mar 2, 20171 min read
Logan - 3 Stars
The final Wolverine film was critically strong, but lacked the elements that made the X-Men films enjoyable. In the near future, a weary...

Benjamin Maio Mackay
Feb 26, 20172 min read
Oscar Predictions - 2017
This year’s Academy Awards are a mere two days away, so it’s time for me to present my predicted outcome of this year’s ceremony. Much...

Benjamin Maio Mackay
Feb 24, 20175 min read
T2: Trainspotting - 5 Stars
Choose Life then choose this film, because it’s just as good as the first one. After 20 years abroad, Mark Renton returns to Scotland and...

Benjamin Maio Mackay
Feb 20, 20171 min read
Jasper Jones - 3.5 Stars
Aaron L. McGrath and Angourie Rice shine in this adaptation of the hit Australian novel. In the dead of night during the scorching summer...

Benjamin Maio Mackay
Feb 20, 20171 min read
The Great Wall - 2.5 Stars
The real Great Wall of China is an unrivalled feat of design and human achievement. Sadly, the same can’t be said of Yimou Zhang’s latest...

Benjamin Maio Mackay
Feb 16, 20171 min read
Silence - 4.5 Stars
Scorsese’s labour of love is a masterpiece. Two priests travel to Japan in an attempt to locate their mentor and propagate Catholicism....

Benjamin Maio Mackay
Feb 16, 20172 min read
Trespass Against Us - 2 Stars
Michael Fassbender’s performance cannot save this plotless film. A man looks to find a way to escape the criminal ways of his outlaw...

Benjamin Maio Mackay
Feb 16, 20171 min read
Hidden Figures - 4 Stars
Hidden Figures is a joy from start to finish. The story of a team of African-American women mathematicians who served a vital role in...

Benjamin Maio Mackay
Feb 15, 20172 min read
Loving - 4.5 Stars
Powerful, thought provoking and poignant. Loving is a truly brilliant film. The story of Richard and Mildred Loving, an interracial...

Benjamin Maio Mackay
Feb 14, 20171 min read
Fifty Shades Darker - 0.5 Stars
Because one of the worst films ever need a sequel, right…..right? Wait, who thought this was a good idea? While Christian wrestles with...

Benjamin Maio Mackay
Feb 10, 20171 min read
Fences - 2.5 Stars
Denzel Washington’s film version of Fences fails to ignite. A working-class African-American father tries to raise his family in the...

Benjamin Maio Mackay
Feb 8, 20172 min read
Wind River - 4 Stars
Taylor Sheridan strikes again with a beautifully thought out and acted murder drama. An FBI agent teams with a town's veteran game...

Benjamin Maio Mackay
Feb 2, 20171 min read
Patriots Day - 0 Stars
I was honestly shocked, made uncomfortable and angered by this movie. The story of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing and the aftermath,...

Benjamin Maio Mackay
Feb 2, 20172 min read
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