Contributor Charlie Theobald

Trailers

Is this the greatest true crime story never told?

by Charlie Theobald

New documentary Out of Thin Air features a double murder case that’s stranger than fiction.
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Review

Kubo and the Two Strings

by Charlie Theobald

Laika Studios may have delivered their masterpiece with this staggering stop-motion fable.

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Anticipation
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Enjoyment
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In Retrospect
Middle-aged man wearing black clerical clothing outdoors.

Can vigilante justice ever be fully justified?

by Charlie Theobald

Forget Suicide Squad, Steve Hoover’s Almost Holy is the ultimate antihero movie.
A group of cowboys in Western attire standing in a rural, natural setting.
Festivals

The Magnificent Seven to open 2016 Toronto Film Festival

by Charlie Theobald

Denzel Washington stars in this western remake, with many other exciting titles announced.
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Review

Men and Chicken

by Charlie Theobald

Two socially maladjusted brothers search for their father, and happen upon a lair of depravity. It’s funny.

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Anticipation
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Enjoyment
3
In Retrospect
Four adults, three men and one woman, sitting together in a dark, dimly lit room.
Review

Now You See Me 2

by Charlie Theobald

Lizzy Caplan brings a dash of magic to this otherwise ineffective heist caper sequel.

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Anticipation
3
Enjoyment
2
In Retrospect
Halftone portrait of a young man with dark hair and a slight smile.

What’s behind our modern obsession with true crime stories?

by Charlie Theobald

News of a dramatisation of the Green River Killer murders got us thinking about the physiological effects of serial thrillers.
Trailers

Watch the atmospheric first trailer for Clint Eastwood’s Sully

by Charlie Theobald

The director has recruited Tom Hanks for this dramatisation of a US Airways pilot’s Hudson River heroics.
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Incoming

Is Terrence Malick about to solve the mysteries of the universe?

by Charlie Theobald

The enigmatic director’s long-gestating passion project Voyage of Time finally has a release date.

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