“When you’ve got brothers singing, it’s like an instrument that nobody else can buy.” Noel Gallagher But first put Thursday, 3 December in your diary, as that’s when The Bee Gees: How Can you Mend A Broken Heart – the first feature-length documentary about the legendary band who wrote more than 1,000 songs, created twenty number… Bee Gees documentary to hit UK cinemas for one night only – check out the teaser trailer now (and then download their entire back catalogue…) Read More
BLOG: Oh Keanu, some buzzes are just bad
Like murder hornets. Or vibrators when the battery is dying. And now… this. 2020 has brought us some terrors. That asteroid. A sinkhole full of rats. The Mummy some “experts” were planning on opening. Trump! THE PANDEMIC! It’s been a bad, bad year. And now what little solace I had – looking at new pictures… BLOG: Oh Keanu, some buzzes are just bad Read More
BLOG: The Songbird trailer that’s getting people tweeting
What movies does one watch during a pandemic? Brilliant classics? Dumb comedies? Brilliant comedies? Films about, um, pandemics? There has been a lot of chatter this week on social media about upcoming thriller Songbird, a romantic thriller made during the pandemic and envisaging a world in a few years’ time where the COVID situation has… BLOG: The Songbird trailer that’s getting people tweeting Read More
Songbird trailer offers a glimpse of a terrifying future, but is it too soon?
Two trailers have been getting attention for all the wrong reasons this week: Stardust, a movie about David Bowie that apparently doesn’t even feature his songs, and Songbird, a “romantic thriller” filmed during, and about, our current pandemic. I haven’t watched the Stardust trailer (what are we meant to do, sing the songs ourselves?) I… Songbird trailer offers a glimpse of a terrifying future, but is it too soon? Read More
INTERVIEW: writer-director Natalie Erika James on her inter-generational horror story Relic
“The idea that these memories could be within this never-ending sinister space, a labyrinth-like space, that was really the first image and the starting point.” Relic director and co-writer Natalie Erika James Natalie Erika James’s bold and shocking horror Relic takes place in an outwardly serene and beautiful family home in Australia, a home that inside… INTERVIEW: writer-director Natalie Erika James on her inter-generational horror story Relic Read More
The Witches: Halloween activity sheets to download now
To trick or not to treat? That is the question. In the UK, people are suggesting taking children around the locality and giving them sweets for every pumpkin they see. (No one so far has suggested telling their kids the pumpkins are what they’ll turn into at midnight if they knock on people’s doors, but… The Witches: Halloween activity sheets to download now Read More
Competition time! Win a blu-ray of critically acclaimed movie Monsoon, starring Henry Golding
I‘ve got one blu-ray to give away in this very easy-to-enter competition. (UK only.) Directed by Hong Khaou (Lilting), MONSOON is a visual and emotional tour de force with a tender performance from Henry Golding (Crazy Rich Asians, The Gentlemen). The film is a rich and poignant exploration of the struggle for identity in a… Competition time! Win a blu-ray of critically acclaimed movie Monsoon, starring Henry Golding Read More
BLOG: epic trolling as the film club watches Beowulf & Grendel
This is by no means the first fantasy starring Gerard Butler that I’ve enjoyed but I think it’s the first I’ve seen on screen. My Good-Bad Film Club mate Liz adores Game of Thrones, and Beowulf & Grendel – which came out in 2005 – is surely its precursor. I’m always behind the zeitgeist and… BLOG: epic trolling as the film club watches Beowulf & Grendel Read More
The Secret Garden 2.5 stars
An orphaned girl discovers a magical garden hidden at her strict uncle’s estate. I was underwhelmed by The Secret Garden but not the secret garden. The film feels soulless, its magic and reality uneasy (flower)bedfellows; while the garden is a gorgeously tangled, artfully curated wilderness housing everything a child, kept captive by an adult world… The Secret Garden Read More
Rebecca: fitting up and fitting in
Warning: very spoilery, though I have at least made my peace with Maxim’s hideous mustard suit, which gets not a single mention (my review, of the film and his vile suit, is here): As housekeeper at Manderley, Mrs Danvers hovers between below stairs and upstairs, not fully fitting in with either. Her job means what… Rebecca: fitting up and fitting in Read More
Small plane survival thriller Horizon Line lands next month – check out the new trailer
Horizon Line looks very tense, pretty gripping and quite batshit, though the filmmakers have missed a trick not having a cute dog in there with them too. Two exes are flying to a wedding in a small plane when the pilot dies, and they have to get themselves back to safety – which seems to… Small plane survival thriller Horizon Line lands next month – check out the new trailer Read More
Rebecca (2020) 3.5 stars
A young newlywed arrives at her husband’s imposing family estate on a windswept English coast and finds herself battling the shadow of his first wife. For obvious reasons, when reading books / watching movies as I’ve got older I’ve found myself no longer identifying with the sweet ingenue and recognising more of myself in the… Rebecca (2020) Read More
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