Charisma, Velvet and Paisley sounds like a 1970s prog rock album but it was actually my initial notes on Mad To Be Normal, director Robert Mullan’s account of the controversial psychiatrist Ronnie Laing, who believed mental illness should not be treated with drugs and was often simply a way for people to cope with the… Mad To Be Normal Read More
Heathers 4.5 stars
The 80s was a blunt decade, designed to disrupt – oversized, brash and brightly-coloured, where the brave and bullish could succeed. In a time defined by red lipstick, shrinking violets need not apply. Everything is over-oversized in Heathers. It’s even bigger, brasher, brighter and more vicious than the decade it satirises. Unsurprisingly in this live-action,… Heathers Read More
Second Venom Trailer Shows Job-Sharing CAN Work
The new trailer for Venom is out, though probably best not to watch if you’re a germ-obsessed lickophobe. (Otherwise grab your hand sanitiser and check it out below, along with the first trailer in case you missed it.) Venom stars Tom Hardy as journalist Eddie Brock, who is infected with a symbiote. It’s a creature… Second Venom Trailer Shows Job-Sharing CAN Work Read More
Life Far From Sweet In The Trailer for Mike Leigh’s True-Life Tale Peterloo
Director Mike Leigh’s film covers the true-life events that took place in St Peter’s Field, Manchester, in 1819. Radical orator Henry Hunt was speaking to a crowd of around 80,000 people, eager for democratic reform. British government forces charged the demo and tried to arrest Hunt. More cavalry men charged – 15 people were killed… Life Far From Sweet In The Trailer for Mike Leigh’s True-Life Tale Peterloo Read More
Mission Impossible: Fallout 4 stars
Facing off villains, middle age and broken bones, The Man From A.N.K.L.E is back and better than ever. This is (mostly) a total blast from start to finish. It only dips when the plot gets in the way; a plot which is is initially understandable but ends up with so much double-crossing I struggled to… Mission Impossible: Fallout Read More
Hunter Killer Trailer – Avoid The Geostorms, Take Refuge Underwater With Gerard Butler
*** Read my Hunter Killer review & check out my submarine movies section *** Gerard Butler is Joe Glass, a submarine captain who has to find the Russian president who’s been kidnapped during a coup. I’m assuming it’s not their current president, as Vladimir Putin being taken by anyone is highly unlikely, even if he was already simultaneously… Hunter Killer Trailer – Avoid The Geostorms, Take Refuge Underwater With Gerard Butler Read More
Ekaj 3.5 stars
The relationship between the young Ekaj (Jake Mestre) and the older Mecca (Badd Idea) is central to writer-director Cati Gonzalez’s movie. It gives warmth and structure to this story about two young gay Puerto Rican men, struggling to survive in that harshest of environments, New York City. But it’s also one that threatens to become… Ekaj Read More
Precognition 3 stars
A battle rages in a wood, as soldiers on the ground engage in a futile struggle against an airborne assault. It’s a noisy, jarring introduction with screams and explosions. But most striking is writer-director Luke Tedder’s disjointed and disruptive filming of the fighting – leaving us the audience as disoriented as the soldiers being attacked…. Precognition Read More
Beast Of Burden 2 stars
A beast of burden is usually a mule, and that’s actually what pilot Sean Haggerty (Daniel Radcliffe) is; a mule for a violent cartel, running drugs over the Mexican border. He’s also burdened with much more though, and has got himself caught in a mesh of interlocking dangers that are gradually crushing him. Sean is… Beast Of Burden Read More
The Glass trailer has arrived! Insert Shattering / Reflective / Window On The Soul Puns Here
Wow. Glass looks class. Terrifying, shocking, edge-of-seat class. The latest film from M Night Shayamalan, it follows on from last year’s scary Split, and features Sarah Paulson as a psychiatrist specialising in treating people with delusions of grandeur – specifically those who believe themselves to be superheroes. Cut to her in an echoey hall, facing three… The Glass trailer has arrived! Insert Shattering / Reflective / Window On The Soul Puns Here Read More
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again 4 stars
I’ve anointed this a four-star movie, and that’s despite it having no plot, and mostly so-so songs (as so many of the best-known classics were utilised in the first film). So why four out of five? Well in my eyes it’s basically a two-star experience, but I’ve given it a whole extra star for the… Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again Read More
Secret Of Marrowbone 3 stars
“He’ll never leave us. Not even dead” cries Jane (Mia Goth), about their evil father, a vicious brute who will try to kill anyone, even his children. Their terror is palpable, which makes one wonder why their mother took them to the one place he’d look for them outside of England – her childhood home,… Secret Of Marrowbone Read More
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