SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE (PG)
animation Kubo And The Two Strings. All those long nights spent trying to imbue lumps of plasticine with personalities have served him well.
A likeable Steinfeld also helps to ground the chase scenes and the climatic robot fight.
The cruel rich kids who hang around her fairground have made California feel like an alien world to her.
But Bumblebee helps her to view it through fresh eyes.
As their friendship develops, Charlie opens up to Memo (Jorge Lendeborg Jr.), the geeky boy next door, and finds a little gang of her own.
What appears at first glance to be just another testosteronefuelled action movie is actually a tender coming-of-age drama in disguise. MILA Kunis and Kate McKinnon form a decent double act in this entertaining action comedy about 30-somethings plunged into an espionage caper.
The action-scenes are well-staged and McKinnon gets some very funny lines, yet the two elements don’t quite mesh together.
What could have been a riotous spoof feels like a straight spy thriller with comic interludes. SPIKE Lee’s well received crime drama tells the true story of a black undercover detective who managed to inflitrate the Ku Klux Klan in 1978.
It’s a great yarn, but I found director Lee’s grandstanding pretty insufferable.
What could have been a gritty, true-crime film ends up being swamped by broad satire, boundarypushing racist language, and deeply unsublte, on-the-nose President Trump bashing.
Former US footballer John David Washington and Star Wars’ Adam Driver star.