“If you must blink, do it now,” Kubo warns the audience in the first seconds of Kubo and the Two Strings. One of the truest lines to ever open an animated movie as the latest offering from Laika (the stop-motion studio behind C...

It can be very difficult to judge a film on its own merits, especially when it is a story that has been retold several times, and when one of those times was one of the most heavily awarded films in the history of cinema, it ha...

Hell or High Water succeeding in conning me, an innocent bystander, within the first five minutes of the film. As the screen lights up, viewers are immediately catapulted into a high-speed, ski-masked getaway – settling in for ...