In the midst of Monos‘s scenes of ritual, fighting and bacchanalia, we get to see a clip from a TV show about the making of gummy bears: soft enough to chew but hard enough to hold their shape. It’s a perfect allegory for its child soldiers. A film that by turns is almost hypnotically somnolent… Monos Read More
The Beach Bum 3.5 stars
A genius at geniality, Moondog, a middle-aged slacker poet with a very rich, very accommodating wife, has the life many people dream of. Most of the time he’s chilling on his boat, surrounded by equally good-natured half-naked women, who lie around smiling cheerily while he bangs away on his scarlet typewriter. (“A Van Gogh with… The Beach Bum Read More
Trick Or Treat 3 stars
I loved the characters in Halloween crime thriller Trick Or Treat, particularly new dad and ex-criminal Greg – who moans so much about the dullness of life with a wife and new baby he doesn’t even let up while driving round with brutal henchman Clarence in a quest to find his ne’er-do-well brother Dan, and… Trick Or Treat Read More
The Addams Family 3 stars
It’s the job of the younger generation to drag us out of our comfort zones, or in the case of the Addams family, discomfort zones. So it’s left to the literally dreadful Wednesday (a gloriously deadpan Chloë Grace Moretz) to take the lead in demonstrating to her family that expecting conformity, even if it’s conformity to… The Addams Family Read More
Terminator: Dark Fate 4 stars
As a teenager in the UK in the 1980s, my four horsemen of the apocalypse were (in no particular order) nuclear annihilation, rabies, spontaneous human combustion and Margaret Thatcher. So when I first saw T2: Judgement Day in 1991, that scene where Sarah Connor watches a nuclear bomb exploding while she screams against the wire fence… Terminator: Dark Fate Read More
INTERVIEW: “Harpoon” director Rob Grant on his bloody brilliant lost-at-sea horror comedy
Writer-director Rob Grant’s viciously funny horror comedy Harpoon, about three “friends” marooned on a drifting yacht with no food or water, explores the toxic relationships between the wealthy Richie, his girlfriend Sasha, and their friend Jonah. With a dispassionate narrator to push the story forward, the film’s characters are both relatable and authors of their own… INTERVIEW: “Harpoon” director Rob Grant on his bloody brilliant lost-at-sea horror comedy Read More
INTERVIEW: “Peanut Butter Falcon” writer-directors Tyler Nilson & Michael Schwartz
Peanut Butter Falcon, the hit indie comedy about Zak, a young man with Down syndrome who breaks out of his restrictive care home for adventures on the road (and rivers) of the American South, has been winning over audiences and earning plaudits since its world premiere at this year’s SXSW film festival. Zak, played by Zack Gottsagen, is a huge wresting… INTERVIEW: “Peanut Butter Falcon” writer-directors Tyler Nilson & Michael Schwartz Read More
Peter Rabbit 2: teaser trailer, and with Bea and Thomas married will there soon be a bunny in the oven?
What am I saying – who could eat a rabbit! (Though I’d love to know if after the first film, sales went stratospheric or completely collapsed. What do we Brits love more, animals or pies?) The first Peter Rabbit film was fine – I even liked James Corden as the titular bunny – though, like… Peter Rabbit 2: teaser trailer, and with Bea and Thomas married will there soon be a bunny in the oven? Read More
Zombieland 4 stars
A contaminated burger infected with mad cow disease has turned into mad person disease which has turned into mad zombie disease, and the United States of America is now the United States of Zombieland. Yet despite the millions of fast-running, virus-ridden, blood-drooling zombies, a few uninfected are managing to scythe out a space for the… Zombieland Read More
JoJo Rabbit (London Film Festival 2019) 4 stars
A young boy in Hitler’s army finds out his mother is hiding a Jewish girl in their home. JoJo Rabbit works nearly all of the time, which for a comedy about the friendship between a small boy in the Hitler Youth and a Jewish girl, and with a buffoonish Hitler as an imaginary father figure, is… JoJo Rabbit (London Film Festival 2019) Read More
Little Monsters (London Film Festival 2019) 3 stars
Little Monsters is a great advert for teacher excellence, if not much of a recruiting tool – as multi-talented kindergarten teacher Miss Caroline has to save her class of small charges as they face down an attempted zombie apocalypse. I say attempted; it does feel a little half-hearted, as the world’s slowest undead hordes stagger round… Little Monsters (London Film Festival 2019) Read More
Shaun The Sheep: Farmageddon 3.5 stars
The joy when writing about Shaun the Sheep movies partly comes from not having to spend time afterwards trying to decipher key quotes that I’ve written down in the dark. No one actually speaks, except to utter the occasional “arghhh!” and “ugh”, and though I’ve often scribbled those exact words in response to other, lesser films,… Shaun The Sheep: Farmageddon Read More
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