*** Read my review of Last Christmas *** “You have thrown away your life, working in some silly Christmas shop!” THERE’S NO SUCH THING AS A SILLY CHRISTMAS SHOP, MISTER! I should know, I managed a Christmas department for two years, wearing musical reindeer antlers which only played Rudolph The Red Nose Reindeer on repeat… Cheesier than Waitrose’s festive deli counter, the “Last Christmas” trailer is here! Read More
Alternate Endings: Six New Ways to Die in America 3.5 stars
A funeral industry expert in the US predicts significant numbers of closures of traditional funeral homes over the next few years – in the death business, it’s adapt or die. Funerals, like weddings, sure aren’t like they used to be. From tubs of Irish earth so expats can be buried in a part of their… Alternate Endings: Six New Ways to Die in America Read More
Apocalypse Now – Final Cut 5 stars
War is traditionally described as mostly boredom for its participants with short bursts of gut-wrenching, bloody terror, and this is no exception. Often into that sliver of a gap between the two states fit extremes of behaviour and personality; those people who almost seem to thrive on the chaos. Captain Benjamin Willard (Martin Sheen) and… Apocalypse Now – Final Cut Read More
Blinded By The Light 3 stars
By 1987 Mrs Thatcher had been in power for eight years and believe me it felt like a whole lot longer than that at the time. As if things could get any worse, Curiosity Killed the Cat, Tiffany and Debbie Gibson were mounting assaults on the UK charts. I’d tried to block all of those… Blinded By The Light Read More
Notorious (4k re-release) 4.5 stars
Alfred Hitchcock’s Notorious (rereleased by the BFI in a stunning 4K restoration) pairs Cary Grant with Ingrid Bergman in a nail-biting thriller where an investigation into South American Nazi enclaves becomes entangled with the messiness of human relationships – as both the chilly Devlin and urbane Nazi Alex Sebastian fall in love with Alicia, the German-American daughter of… Notorious (4k re-release) Read More
Charming 2.5 stars
Charming positions heroine Lenore as being misguided for demanding great riches as payment for taking Prince Philippe safely through his Run The Gauntlet challenge – I prefer to see her as an independent working woman who knows the value of her skills. She even – spoiler – gives all her money away at the end…. Charming Read More
Benjamin 4 stars
A second film, like a second album, is fraught with problems, but it also offers a rich seam of jokes, especially around the double edged sword that early success brings. “Ideally I’d have just made that film and died”, young filmmaker Benjamin tells his publicist, Billie about his first movie. “Is that not a good answer…?”… Benjamin Read More
It: Chapter 2 featurette released
*** My 3-star It Chapter Two review is now live *** “Pennywise has a craving for the Losers… he’s missed them”. It’s just a month until the world’s scariest clown – when, let’s face it, all clowns are scary – is back on our screens, and a new featurette has been released to whet our appetites… It: Chapter 2 featurette released Read More
The Nightingale (Sundance London) 3 stars
It’s an easy get-out, to anoint a movie “a hard watch”, but Jennifer Kent’s period revenge thriller The Nightingale is just that. I went in with no other information beyond this being a follow up to The Babadook, a horror film about a menaced, powerless child but really about loneliness and grief. This is, in… The Nightingale (Sundance London) Read More
Leo Da Vinci: Mission Mona Lisa 2.5 stars
Da Vinci died 500 years ago this year, and I can imagine plenty of children googling him after this, to check out the original Renaissance Man’s full invention inventory. You’ll probably find them surfacing hours later, an expert in ball bearings and 16th century robots. I had no idea he’d invented a diving suit (tested… Leo Da Vinci: Mission Mona Lisa Read More
Charlie Says 3 stars
Charlie says a lot in this film, most of it absolute rubbish. Mary Harron’s movie isn’t about Charles Manson though, but about three women, Leslie Van Houten, Patricia Krenwinkel and Susan Atkins, imprisoned for horrific murders committed at his behest: their reactions to him, and to each other. There’s almost a love triangle going on… Charlie Says Read More
The Lion King (2019) 3 stars
Why is it that fluffy animals with human emotions in movies don’t affect me, yet I’ll happily admit to weeping buckets when Wilson the non-sentient volleyball drifted off across the sea from Tom Hanks’s raft in Castaway? I don’t even like sport. (And sorry for spoilering that for you. It’s okay though, he makes another… The Lion King (2019) Read More
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