The 80s were a crazy decade – awesome music, terrible politics. (Possibly the latter helped cause the former.) In Blinded By The Light it’s 1987 and Mrs Thatcher is in power, while record players and Walkmans hum with Wham! and Bananarama (when it comes to the 80s, if you never tried to wind a cassette… Blinded By The Light trailer: Bruce lights the way in 80s Luton Read More
John Wick 3: Parabellum – 1 minute video review Includes Video 4.5 stars
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Angel Has Fallen first trailer and MORGAN FREEMAN IS PRESIDENT!
*** My Angel Has Fallen review is now live *** So you can all sleep easy in your beds tonight, apart from the bit where someone sends a fleet of drones to kill him. With Mike “I’m thirsty as fuck!” Banning (Gerard Butler), accused of being behind the assassination attempt on President Allan Trumbull, the Secret… Angel Has Fallen first trailer and MORGAN FREEMAN IS PRESIDENT! Read More
INTERVIEW: Stephen Koepfer, Sambo expert on John Wick: Parabellum
“The notion that Wick is a Sambo guy is super cool. Sambo players around the globe should be jazzed about that!” Stephen Koepfer The John Wick franchise is known for its creation of an underground world of assassins and fighters, an off-kilter parallel universe that carries on around us, occasionally bumping our lives. John Wick 3, as well… INTERVIEW: Stephen Koepfer, Sambo expert on John Wick: Parabellum Read More
Carmine Street Guitars 4 stars
There’s a funny moment in the documentary Carmine Street Guitars when there’s an attempt to set up the realtor selling the six million-dollar building next door as the bad guy, but it’s very brief. Properietor and legendary guitar maker Rick Kelly is frosty and monosyllabic with the salesman, but anyway is much more interested in whether… Carmine Street Guitars Read More
Let’s go to Sweden, they said, it’ll be lovely, they said… The second Midsommar trailer is here!
*** Read my 3.5/5 review of Midsommar now *** UPDATE 4 June 2019: A24, always on top of their marketing, have produced a fake festival ticket for Midsommar – check it below. Beware blondes in white dresses with strange dance moves! Frankly my ex-boyfriends could’ve told you that, but if you need more evidence then… Let’s go to Sweden, they said, it’ll be lovely, they said… The second Midsommar trailer is here! Read More
Pulsar (Short Film) Short Film 3.5 stars
Jonah (David Gyasi), an intergalactic peacekeeper, has refused his latest assignment – to help the people of the warlike planet Ninevah, which is under threat. Yes this is a retelling of the Bible story Jonah And The Whale, in which Jonah refused God’s instruction to take his message to the godless city of Ninevah and… Pulsar (Short Film) Read More
Arctic 4 stars
A man stranded in the Arctic after a plane crash must decide whether to remain in the relative safety of his makeshift camp or to embark on a deadly trek through the unknown. We don’t even see Overgård’s small plane crash into the icy arctic wilderness. If anyone was with him they’re dead now (I’m… Arctic Read More
John Wick 3: Parabellum 4.5 stars
Si vis pacem, para bellum – if you want peace, prepare for war – is the Latin maxim from which this film’s title comes, quoted by Continental Hotel manager Winston (Ian McShane). This is indeed a climactic battle, if sometimes a proxy one, between two ageing institutions – the High Table, a ruling elite that… John Wick 3: Parabellum Read More
“Judy” teaser: Renée Zellweger is in a rainbow world
*** 8 July 2019, UPDATE: watch the new Judy trailer now *** Renée Zellweger certainly looks the part in this first teaser for Judy, the Just Garland biopic coming out at. And she’s a terrific singer too – it is Renée singing Somewhere Over The Rainbow, the soundtrack to this first glimpse. The film is set… “Judy” teaser: Renée Zellweger is in a rainbow world Read More
IT: Chapter 2 trailer and the Losers Club is back in Derry: “no one who dies here ever really dies”
*** My It Chapter Two review is now live *** 19 July 2019 UPDATE: Watch the second and final trailer now Now that I’ve seen the first trailer for It: Chapter 2, I’m now both looking forward to 6 September, when the film is released, and hoping it never comes. It’s taken me several hours to get… IT: Chapter 2 trailer and the Losers Club is back in Derry: “no one who dies here ever really dies” Read More
“You’re the writers and I think it’s your fault” – You tell em, ‘Em!
Actually it’s Katherine Newbury – doyenne of a late night chat show with its glory days behind it – who blames her, er, tools. With ratings down, Katherine (Emma Thompson) is told her job is on the line and she’ll be out if she can’t turn things around. Her all-male, all-white, all-privileged Writing Room are,… “You’re the writers and I think it’s your fault” – You tell em, ‘Em! Read More
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