Prepare for spoilers [twangs lute, plays Greensleeves in preparation] — or check out my review here. It’s Christmastime, and medieval knight Sir Cole Lyons meets a crone in a snowy forest while hawking. He wants to get her to shelter, and because of his kindness to her she tells him she is going to send… Verrily, thy ending: The Knight Before Christmas Read More
Home Sweet Home Alone recap
Very spoilery, though most of it you’ve probably seen before… (My 2/5 review is here.) Pam and Jeff Mackenzie are selling their family home at an open house viewing day. Their children Abby and Chris don’t know they are moving, but since Jeff lost his IT job they can’t survive in the house on Pam’s… Home Sweet Home Alone recap Read More
Home Sweet Home Alone 2 stars
A young boy is left alone over Christmas, while a couple try to steal back from him a valuable heirloom. I watched this and civilisation did not collapse. Great nations did not fall. Untranslatable ancient scrolls did not crumble to dust. Also, parts of it I actually quite enjoyed. When Home Sweet Home Alone was… Home Sweet Home Alone Read More
Yield To The Night 5 stars
A young woman awaiting her execution for murder looks back on the circumstances that led her there. Very spoilery, if you’ve been trying to avoid them since 1956. “I don’t think you should write about love unless you’re a poet. It sounds silly,” opines doomed convicted murderer Mary Hilton (Diana Dors), of the stream of… Yield To The Night Read More
There’s hope for humanity yet: Finch recap
Very spoilery! If you’re looking for my Finch review, it’s here. Sand, sand, as far as the eye can see… a hero with a very ordinary name… No not that one. I said in my review that Finch is about life going on, one generation handing over the baton to the next when they know… There’s hope for humanity yet: Finch recap Read More
She was always a Spencer!
Very spoilery, of course. If you’re after my Spencer review, it’s here. “Go! Run!” Spencer is about a three-day period one Christmas in the early 1990s. Diana is joining the rest of the royal family at Sandringham (one of the Queen’s houses) in Norfolk; she and Charles are not yet separated. It’s an imaged series… She was always a Spencer! Read More
Spencer 3.5 stars
Princess Diana joins the Royal family for Christmas at Sandringham. I have had an uneasy if entirely one-sided relationship with Princess Diana for nearly 40 years now, ranging from bafflement to astonishment to sympathy. I’m not sure this film really changes things, so used to her reappraisal am I now. In Pablo Larraín’s icily beautiful… Spencer Read More
Finch 4 stars
A man, a robot and a dog form an unlikely family in a dead world. There’s a scene in Finch where lanky robot companion Jeff, wearing a massive parka he’s found on a scavenging trip, stands alone in the rain — while his maker, Finch, stomps off angrily to the RV in which they are… Finch Read More
Moonfall trailer: the Moon is not what we think it is!
Earth in peril: check. Famous landmarks in tatters: check. Looters out in force: check. Desperate “GET TO HIGHER GROUND!” instructions: check (not sure how that works, surely you’re then nearer the actual Moon, which is heading towards you?). Three plucky astronauts, leaving Earth to save it: check. The Moon turning out to be hollow: ch…… Moonfall trailer: the Moon is not what we think it is! Read More
Boxing Day trailer: does true love triumph?
And who is Melvin actually in love with: Lisa or Georgia? We’ll have to wait until 3 December to find that out, though judging by this trailer the movie itself fulfils my strict but simple rules for a fantastic festive film. To stop me going all bah humbug on exhausted moviemakers, they need to provide… Boxing Day trailer: does true love triumph? Read More
Time to welcome the Unwelcome trailer
There are hungry little people in the garden and if they don’t get fed you’ll pay for it… No not my children, but redcaps (goblins!) who apparently won’t cause any bother as long as you do what they demand. Here’s the synopsis: Maya and Jamie escape their urban nightmare to the tranquility of rural Ireland… Time to welcome the Unwelcome trailer Read More
Last Train To Christmas: The Hitman And Her meets A Christmas Carol meets Snowpiercer
Honestly, when I saw this photo I thought we ’80s kids were finally getting the Pepsi and Shirlie biopic we’d been hoping for. But no, that *is* Michael Sheen (The Twilight Saga, The Queen) and Nathalie Emmanuel (Game of Thrones, Fast & Furious 7) who have joined the cast of Last Train to Christmas, a brand new Sky Original film. Brits… Last Train To Christmas: The Hitman And Her meets A Christmas Carol meets Snowpiercer Read More
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