For the last two years I have had the honour of being invited to the BAFTA awards down in London. This year however, there was a special surprise. We would actually be going inside the Royal Albert Hall to watch the ceremony for the first time instead of retreating to the exclusive Soho House members…
Generous of spirit, co-written with intelligence by original novelist Darryl Ponicsan and director Richard Linklater, who brings a wonderful sense of patience and compassion to the proceedings, last year’s tough-minded and heartfelt drama Last Flag Flying is a sad and reflective piece that’s bolstered by a trio of low-key terrific performances from Steve Carell, Laurence…
Coming off of his original and haunting debut film, Ex Machina, Alex Garland parlayed his newfound status and momentum into a visually rich and emotionally charged film headlined by the wonderful Natalie Portman. Annihilation is a film that aims high, shored up by an eclectic and visceral cast, but its plot is so lowkey that…
Let me start this off by saying I love game nights. Between a few rounds of Cards Against Humanity, Scrabble, and Parcheesi, there’s usually laughs aplenty. I’m also known for hosting a few murder mysteries each year. So when I came across the trailer for Game Night, I couldn’t resist checking out the latest action-comedy…
I was three when the explosion happened. It happened approximately 180 miles from us – the biggest nuclear disaster, the Chernobyl radiation spill. I spent months in the hospital, my health forever affected by the radiation exposure. For years, I felt ‘weak’ and ‘broken,’ wishing that I had magical superpowers to help people. My family…
Black Panther represents the first superhero film of any sort to boast an almost exclusively black cast. A groundbreaking tale set predominately in Africa and a film that addresses key real-world issues such as colonialism, slavery and racism. Black Panther revolves around the African nation of Wakanda. A nation that to the outside world is…
Mark Pellington’s contemplative and emotionally rigorous film Nostalgia is not going to be an easy movie for many people to experience. Told in the aesthetic key of current-phase Terrence Malick (minus all of the wide-angle stedicaming) but feeling tethered to something more universal and tangible, this is a defiantly artistic piece of independent filmmaking, and…
Darkest Hour is a solid movie. It’s a piece that has been designed around the promise of an actor knocking it out of the park as Winston Churchill, and on that level, Gary Oldman’s performance is precisely as good as you’ve been led to believe, and it’s the sort of thing that is very attractive…
A time of year to celebrate with a loved one and what better way to celebrate than to sit down with a nice cosy blanket, a warm drink and some nibbles and watch a romantic flick with the one you love. We take a look at a selection of 10 romantic movies you can watch…
Science fiction fans have been spoilt in recent years with a crop of stone-cold classics to feast their eyes on. We’re going to take a look at just some of them. This is by no means a ‘best of’ list , because there is so much of note out there. Think of it rather…
I still can’t believe this one-sheet was contemplated, discussed, designed, tweaked, approved, printed, and distributed. Someone had to have lost their job over this. And when compared to the film’s other one-sheet that I’ve used in this review you REALLY have to question the artistic motivation for creating this truly shitty-amazing one-sheet for the rather…
The third and final instalment of the Fifty Shades franchise see’s Christian Grey and Anastasia Steele tie the knot. The second the words ‘I do’ are spoken Christian Grey transforms into a cowering beta male for the films two-hour duration. The guy who ties up women for sexual pleasure is metaphorically whipped from start to…
Ben Layten (Thomas Middleditch) an out-of-work recent divorcee who despite his various attempts can’t even kill himself correctly. After another failed suicide Ben learns that he may have almost had a sister when he was younger when his parents were close to adoption before his mother became pregnant with him. This gives Ben a new…
Paddington is a delightful family film. I should know, as I’ve seen it roughly 150 times in the last two months, as our son Owen has become a wee-bit obsessed with the cuddly little bloke. This movie really does have it all for the entire family, as children will adore the titular character, and adults…
This is a very upsetting film, with a lot of troubling issues explored in just under two hours, and while it won’t be an easy-sit for many viewers, Thank You For Your Service is both timely and timeless, a portrait of those who need help but can’t easily attain it for any number of reasons,…
Sidney Lumet’s totally cracking 1986 political drama Power. I feel like my cinema-viewing life has been leading up to this moment. How had I not seen this terrific movie sooner? I’ll resist my temptation to get super obnoxious with this mini-review, but holy sh*t this movie rocks it – hard. You’ve got sleazy mustache Dick…
