Doctor Strange [IMAX 3D]

Iron Man origin story + Cyriak music video = Another feather for Marvel's crowded cap and a glorious excuse to explore multi-dimensional insanity in future episodes.

Going Clear: Scientology And The Prison Of Belief

A series of interviews that attempts to understand something which seems just a little bit crazy and in the process of doing so discovers that it is.

My Scientology Movie

Louis Theroux makes a movie about making a movie about Scientologists who are making a movie about Louis Theroux making a movie about making a movie about Scientologists.

The Greasy Strangler

It's so rare to see a film as compellingly unique as this. The closest comparison I can draw is that it's a bit like a Russ Meyer horror movie with less tits but that doesn't come anywhere close to describing the astonishing levels of insanity, hilarity and stomach churning disgust generated by this absolute gem.

May

An excellent central performance by Angela Bettis gets battered about by what looks to be some quite extensive script re-editing.

Smiley

I actually really liked the reverse Candyman idea at the centre of this. Good thing I did otherwise there would've been no hope of me making it through the rest of this limp toss.

Free Fire

Six films in and Wheatley shows absolutely no signs of slowing down in the excellence stakes. This one is far more straight up than the others but ably compensates with a bunch of cracking performances, consistently deft humour and a fuck-tonne of bullets.

The Ghoul

A dizzying swirl of shifting narrative and insidous weirdness. Loved it, but then this kind of thing is so far up my street it goes all the way round the globe and ends up back at the beginning of my street. That clever bit of praise works much better once you've seen the film, go watch it now.

Without Name

A loathsome twat takes a massive quantity of hallucinogens and as his ego melts away he discovers that even when divorced of his concious self he's still a loathsome twat.

Phantasm [Remastered]

I've watched so many horror films that there's not many considered classics that I haven't seen by now. This is one of them, I can easily see how it gained its classic status and now there's even fewer left to watch.

The Void

Good ideas stolen from other people's much better movies slapped together in haphazard fashion. I did like the chap with the messy face who kept headbutting a metal pole jutting out of a wall though.

Trespass Against Us

An attempt to take a sympathetic look at an often demonised sector of society. Surprisingly subtle for a Chemical Brothers music video director and contains by far the best vernacular you'll find in the cinema this year.

Nocturnal Animals

A superb trio of narratives entwined into a rope of seething hatred. Sometimes it's hatred for the lives being led, sometimes it's hatred of the people involved in those lives or in the case of Michael Shannon it's a compulsively watchable hatred of fucking everything.

Last Girl Standing

Attempts to distance itself from shitty slasher movies by examining the aftermath of a campsite massacre and the psychological fallout endured by the only survivor. Until a hamfisted attempt at a twist that is, at which point it uncomfortably wedges an entire shitty slasher movie into the final ten minutes.

After.Life

Needs a serious re-editing to get even remotely close to what it's trying to achieve.