A young woman and her friends enjoying a boat trip off Hawaii are attacked by a vicious Great White, that seems to be hunting for fun rather than to survive. Shark movies are like buses. You wait ages, consoling yourself with giant crocodiles, reconstituted dinosaurs and blue hedgehogs, and then three come along in succession:… Maneater Read More
The Reef: Stalked 3 stars
Four women are hunted by a shark while on a seagoing kayaking adventure. Received wisdom is that sharks got a raw deal from Peter Benchley’s novel and Spielberg’s classic movie. Though they’ve now been so thoroughly rehabilitated — personally I trace it back to Viz magazine’s self-explanatory cartoon strip The Pathetic Sharks — it’s hard… The Reef: Stalked Read More
Persuasion 2 stars
In 19th century England, an unmarried woman whose aristocratic family are falling on (relatively) hard times reconnects with an old flame. Much has been made of the shallow updating in this newest adaptation of Persuasion. When renting out their ancestral home, the cash-strapped Elliots worry that leaving behind the household ledgers leaves them open to… Persuasion Read More
Jurassic World: Dominion 2.5 stars
Four years after the destruction of Isla Nublar, dinosaurs now live and hunt alongside humans all over the world. If there’s one thing we learnt from Jurassic Park, surely it’s don’t mix living things from different eras. Yet here we are, in the third Jurassic World instalment, with Ellie Sattler, Alan Grant and Ian Malcolm… Jurassic World: Dominion Read More
Top Gun: Maverick 5 stars
Pete “Maverick” Mitchell, now in his 50s, is brought back to teach a new band of Top Gun academy graduates how to run a dangerous mission to destroy a uranium facility. There’s only so many years a man can continue climbing on his emotional support motorbike and racing himself at 80 along a deserted highway…. Top Gun: Maverick Read More
Senior Year 3 stars
A cheerleader wakes up from a 20 year coma and goes back to school. What the slut! Going from desperate Insta Likes-chaser to putting the woke into woke-up, Stephanie (Rebel Wilson) has quite the journey after being roused from her two-decade coma, even though she never leaves her home town. This is a fairytale of… Senior Year Read More
Operation Mincemeat 4 stars
The true story of how a small team of Brits aimed to deceive Hitler over the Allies’ plans for Sicily. There is always artistic licence in films based on true stories, though I was gratified to discover that Operation Mincemeat‘s London coroner Bentley Purchase, who sounds like an early ’00s indie band, was indeed a… Operation Mincemeat Read More
Let The Wrong One In 3.5 stars
A young man tries to help his sibling who has been turned into a vampire in modern-day Dublin. Trainspotter-turned-staker Henry might not be John Wick but he did once kill three vampires in a taxi with a sharpened stick, and if that isn’t nearly a pencil I don’t know what is. He’s on a mission… Let The Wrong One In Read More
Deep Water 2.5 stars
A wealthy married man becomes the chief suspect in the deaths of his wife’s lovers. I had many questions after watching Deep Water (twice!), including why don’t these wealthy people have a dishwasher. In fact why don’t any rich Americans in movies have a dishwasher. There are other, more important unanswered questions in this sometimes… Deep Water Read More
Moonfall 3 stars
The Moon is out of orbit, and heading on a collision course with Earth. There is one pet in Moonfall, but it is never in real peril. Otherwise Roland Emmerich’s old-fashioned, entertainingly silly sci-fi blockbuster ticks many of the genre’s boxes: an underdog no one listens to, government conspiracies, iconic buildings washed hundreds of miles… Moonfall Read More
Silent Night 3.5 stars
Family and friends meet for one last Christmas, before the world ends. Coming in at a pacy hour and 30 minutes – a length many can only dream of when it comes to family Christmas dinners that feel like the end of the world — Silent Night bounces along until almost the end; beautiful, bitterly… Silent Night Read More
Last Train To Christmas 3 stars
Nightclub owner Tony Towers, on a train with his fiancée on Christmas Eve 1985, sees how his life might have been if he had made different decisions along the way. The synopsis of Last Train To Christmas made it sound like a mash-up of A Christmas Carol, Snowpiercer, Sliding Doors and The Hitman And Her… Last Train To Christmas Read More
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