Andor review: Rogue One prequel is slow-burn Star Wars

Gareth Edwards’ Rogue One: A Star Wars Story isn’t the most controversial Star Wars movie ever made, but it still inspires plenty of passionate debate among fans about the place it holds in the beloved sci-fi saga. A gritty, standalone war story set in the period just before the events of Star Wars: Episode IV – […]

Hereditary is catnip for fans of slow-burn horror movies

Enlarge / Creepy kid is creepy. (credit: A24) Every summer, stowed between the latest sequel to ComicBook Man Saves Everything and Johnny Depp Fights Special FX, Hollywood tries to sneak at least one interesting horror film into cineplexes. This week, we get Hereditary, a brilliant (and rare) mid-summer take on the slow-burn horror genre. What, […]

Only The Brave review: A well-meaning tribute but a slow-burn film

Fighting a raging wildfire in Arizona is definitely cinematic but, as these are real firefighters who were involved in a relatively recent tragedy, it probably didn’t feel right to try to force their story into the template of a Hollywood disaster movie.  So they handed director Joseph Kosinski a gritty procedural about a US fire […]