A young woman with a past she wants to keep hidden becomes the live-in housemaid for a wealthy family. Fellow Generation Xers sinking back into their multiplex seats to watch The Housemaid might think they’ve been transported back to the heady movie days of the late ’80s and ’90s; Paul Feig’s long hot thriller is… The Housemaid Read More
Greenland 2: Migration trailer
Five years on, the Garritys look for a new home, this time above ground. Is it really five years since the world was all but destroyed by Comet Clarke in Greenland? I didn’t quite believe it, so I looked back at my review, and even if I hadn’t taken in the date at the top… Greenland 2: Migration trailer Read More
Tinsel Town pics to get you in the Christmas spirit
And no it is not “too soon”. I do love a festive romcom, especially one set in a quaint English village full of characters from every social class, all living in lovely cottages that would cost at least three-quarters of a million, where the local status quo is disturbed by the arrival of… horror… AN… Tinsel Town pics to get you in the Christmas spirit Read More
The Naked Gun 4.5 stars
LA Police Squad scion Frank Drebin Jnr takes on an evil tech billionaire and falls in love with the sister of a murder victim. While my friends and I watched this new Naked Gun in a haze of nostalgic goodwill, I can’t see how those generations born since the original movies won’t adore it too…. The Naked Gun Read More
The Roses 3 stars
A British couple living in America find themselves at violent loggerheads when one career plummets while the other goes stratospheric. As a long-married couple look to be approaching the end of the marital road, neither will budge enough for them both to move on. Will they blow up their marriage or will it be til… The Roses Read More
Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy 4 stars
Bridget, now widowed, gets back in the dating game – and finds a much younger man. Bridget is back, and she has become, dare I say it, slightly more sophisticated. Where once she slurped blue soup now she quaffs blue cocktails; and she has gained a beautiful Hampstead house, possibly accidentally swapped for her hairbrush…. Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy Read More
Alien: Romulus 4 stars
A young woman and her android brother battle xenomorphs in an abandoned research station. Seven films into this franchise, Alien: Romulus manages to be both terrifying and comforting; the audience revisiting their haunted childhood home, relieved to be tucked up in their old bed even if it does levitate. There is no comfort for our… Alien: Romulus Read More
Monty Python & The Holy Grail 5 stars
King Arthur sets out on a quest to find the Holy Grail. Doing for bunnies what Benchley and Spielberg did for Great Whites, and demolishing fourth walls with the glee of a cowboy builder, the Pythons’ second big screen outing is a hoot, a meandering delight that also firmly skewers the genial pointlessness of quests… Monty Python & The Holy Grail Read More