I can think of worse ways to spend a morning with a pair of handcuffs, but only if you’ve just been arrested. Fifty Shades Freed is pretty bad. Worse than Fifty Shades Darker, which, while not great film-making, at least had a sense of humour (both deliberate and unintentional). Dakota Johnson is a good comic… Fifty Shades Freed Read More
I, Tonya – 1 Minute Video Review Includes Video 4.5 stars
Shoutout to anyone else old enough not to have said “Tonya who?” when they first heard about this movie. (And yes, I am wearing a frilly leotard in her honour). Click here for the full I, Tonya review
Black Panther 4.5 stars
A popular prince returning home to claim his throne after the death of a much-loved monarch is a chance to use the resultant outpouring of goodwill, and sheer spectacle, to bring a country closer together. But it’s also a time of disruption, when nations are most vulnerable; as CIA man Everett Ross points out later,… Black Panther Read More
Den Of Thieves – 1 Minute Video Review Includes Video 4 stars
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Lady Bird – 1 Minute Video Review Includes Video 3 stars
This is my first video review since getting Daisy the puppy (yes named for John Wick), so if there’s any whining, for once it’s not me. Click here for the full Lady Bird review
Oddsockeaters 3 stars
In the interests of full disclosure, I should admit to a prior interest here. I love socks, new socks anyway, and there are few things more pleasurable (that I can put in a review of a family film) than putting on a new pair of soft stretchy socks, to be enjoyed only once before they… Oddsockeaters Read More
New Trailer For “The Third Murder”: Not So Much A Whodunnit As A HeSaysHeDidIt
*** My review of The Third Murder is now live *** The Third Murder follows a top lawyer who defends a murder-robbery suspect previously jailed for another murder decades previously. The man admits his guilt to this new crime, and faces the death penalty, but soon the lawyer starts to wonder if his client is… New Trailer For “The Third Murder”: Not So Much A Whodunnit As A HeSaysHeDidIt Read More
I, Tonya 4.5 stars
“Why CAN’T it just be about the skating?” replies Tonya Harding to a judge when they respond to her accusations of deliberately low marking with “Tonya, it’s never been entirely about the skating… you just refuse to play along”. It’s hardly her fault that she was born poor though, with an abusive parent who creates in… I, Tonya Read More
Lady Bird 3 stars
Maybe it’s my age – perhaps there’s a point at which one stops identifying with the irritating daughter and starts nodding along sagely with the irritating mum – but Lady Bird isn’t a film that grabbed me. Naturally, being a woman, after all the acclaim it’s received I finished watching it thinking “is it me?… Lady Bird Read More
Severance Pay (NSFL: Not Suitable For Lunchtime)
I’m not a fan of people having bits chopped off onscreen even if they’re really evil, in which case chop off all the bits, just do it in another room. But I’ve noticed a trend in movies that takes giving someone the finger to a whole new level. Yes, digit-docking is a thing. You can see… Severance Pay (NSFL: Not Suitable For Lunchtime) Read More
Den’s After Diamonds in Den Of Thieves 2
There’s going to be a Den Of Thieves sequel and I couldn’t be more excited (apart from for John Wick: Chapter 3, obviously). And I have SO many questions: – Will they push those Robin Hood puns as far as they can go, even though <SPOILER!> poor old Ray Merrimen is no more? – Will… Den’s After Diamonds in Den Of Thieves 2 Read More
The Shape Of Water 5 stars
This is an ode to gods and monsters, and fittingly it is set in the early 1960s – when America has become used to strange creatures on screen, warning us of our failings as a species, or terrifying us into submission. And with so many B-movies allegories for East-West relations, it’s also appropriate that The… The Shape Of Water Read More
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