"Why does Hollywood keep doing this?" - Dara Higgins reviews The Girl On The Train
JK Simmons is more than a supporting actor in breakout jazz drama Whiplash says MacDara Conroy
Contemporary America puts a family’s anti-capitalist, back-to-nature lifestyle to the test in Captain Fantastic, says MacDara Conroy
"Yes, suffice to say, I love the Alien Trilogy. And no, we do not talk about the fourth one." - WatchingCattle gives his views on Ridley Scott's Prometheus.
"One undeniable thing about Australia is that it is amazing to look at. Tasmania is presented here as a vast, harsh and uninhabitable foreboding expanse of land. The scenery becomes a character in itself." - WatchingCattle on Australian thriller The Hunter.
There’s something fishy about woman-meets-gillman romance fantasy The Shape of Water, says MacDara Conroy
’White Americans on the run from bloodthirsty savages? Insert ‘THAT’S RACIST!’ image macro here’ - MacDara Conroy on No Escape
Eye In The Sky is a "slickly entertaining but ideologically duplicitous drone thriller," says Hugh McCabe
‘Big ideas abound here, but do they make for a great film? I wish’ – MacDara Conroy on Ari Folman’s The Congress
The new Child’s Play is a smart reboot for the demon doll franchise, writes MacDara Conroy