Jim: The James Foley Story is ‘touching, stirring, yet quiet celebration of a life’ says MacDara Conroy
'The film is a real opulent mess, devoid of any real identity or direction' - Thomas Parkes on Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice
Gambling-themed drama Mississippi Grind is ‘a road movie of sorts, with a particularly odd couple’ says MacDara Conroy
‘It’s as if he got bored with filming the psychological thriller he was hired to make and did whatever took his fancy’ - MacDara Conroy on Rowan Joffé’s adaptation of bestseller Before I Go To Sleep
Thumped's Random Dvd trip: Wherein Hector Grey enters the Xtravision across the road and grabs the first couple of things that appear in the shelf. This week: The Ward & Panic Button.
‘It’s a crime to take something so majestic and render it so dull’ - MacDara Conroy on Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Brendan Gleeson gives the performance of his career in bleak Irish western Calvary, but does the film itself match up? MacDara Conroy isn't so sure
"Here he differs from every bleeding-heart liberal or hysterical preacher who picks up a camera and slams his point home with fact and fury. Herzog is only interested in humanity." - WatchingCattle on Werner Herzog's Into The Abyss.
‘The plot is stripped to the bone, and it’s all in the execution’ - MacDara Conroy on Lynne Ramsay’s superlative thriller You Were Never Really Here
'They weren't kidding when they sang that the sequel's never as good' - MacDara Conroy on Muppets Most Wanted