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A tag line of the Venom marketing campaign is "The world has enough superheroes", promising that we're going to see something rare: a thrilling origin story of one of Marvel's best comic book villains. Sadly, this film is made by Sony, meaning that another promise has been broken. Tom Hardy, the only reason your girlfriend wants to see this film, plays Eddie Brock, a reporter who really cares too much about homeless people. Obligatory scary corporation, the Life Foundation, somehow jumps to the conclusion that bringing back parasitic aliens from outer space is the answer to all of the world's problems. These aliens are called symbiotes, colour-varied balls of sentient CGI that need to attach to a living host to survive. Following a stressfully dull 40 minutes of nothing happening, Eddie is bonded with the symbiote, Venom. With a preference for biting people's heads off after oddly licking them, Venom is on a body-sharing adventure with Eddie to s...

Chef is an independent comedy-drama written, produced, directed and starring Jon Faverau. It follows Faverau’s character, Carl Casper: A California chef whose creative style of cooking becomes stifled by the manager of his restaurant and an unfolded event. This leads him to go out on his own in a food truck to discover and cook as he pleases.  In a film industry with several blockbusters coming out each month, it becomes easier to get drowned in explosive, wow-factor escapisms that their $100 million (at minimum) budgets try to create. Some of these large-scale endeavours bring interesting narratives to the table, sure but it’s becoming less often we have the opportunity to be drawn into genuine human stories that have their productions based on their characters instead of the special effects. Alongside making you crave every meal you see onscreen, Chef does just that with it's explored themes and joyful spirit. A chef's wondrous creativity at it's best. A...