For much of Glass‘s running time, it feels as if director M Night Shyamalan is sticking two fingers up to everyone who looks down on superhero movies, those who love them, and possibly film critics too. He has a lot of fun while doing it: in a story about comics and what makes a superman,… Glass Read More
Funny Cow 4 stars
In the 1970s the Northern working men’s club circuit was both a launchpad for an entertainment career and a dismal corner where acts went to die. If they even had the energy to do that. And in Funny Cow, as well as comics, singers and ventriloquists, we’re treated to a performance by the world’s most… Funny Cow Read More
Thor: Ragnarok 3D 4 stars
If, like me, you don’t know your avenger from your enemy, don’t worry. Thor: Ragnarok is full of useful exposition that’s wittily done. In fact the whole film is awash with gags. You could call its humour Shakespearean, as slapstick punctures the bumptuousness and self-aggrandisement of the film’s heroes and anti-heroes, and if that isn’t… Thor: Ragnarok 3D Read More
Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie 4 stars
This is a film all about the strength of laughter, friendship, and knicker elastic – the ties that bind us and the binds that stop our underwear from falling down round our ankles. George and Harold go to a miserably joyless establishment called Jerome Horwitz Elementary School where children are so unhappy they climb into lockers at the… Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie Read More