Argylle is the latest movie from Matthew Vaughn. Vaughn has turned out some great movies, Kick-Ass, Layer Cake, Kingsman, all great fun. The idea of Argylle is interesting: A reclusive author who writes espionage novels about a secret agent and a global spy syndicate realizes the plot of the new

Some movies stick in a person’s brain like a spiny egg. One such movie aired on network television in the early 1980s and distracted kids from Pac-Man for at least two hours…with commercial breaks, of course. This movie was an Alien knock-off titled The Intruder Within. The golden age of

Pretty much everyone watching Shogun so far is digging it. The lavish spectacular needs you to lean in, pay attention, and actively watch it. No dual screening. Lose the thread of the subtitles and you’ll be adrift. Do that, and you are rewarded. Shogun is based on the 1975 historical

With a rare couple of hours to myself, and quite up to date with my TV viewing, I found myself on the couch with a gap in my schedule and nothing to fill it. A lazy trawl through what was available and I stumbled across a movie, starting in just

SPUMC may be failing before our eyes, but that didn’t stop somebody else from having exactly the same idea. “Hey,” they said, “Marvel seems to be doing well with their whole Cinematic Universe… it can’t be too hard! We have all these other Marvel characters, can we just… you know.