*** WIN! Two copies of The Lodgers to be won – ends 5 July 2018, UK only *** There are a few parallels with my own upbringing in The Lodgers, a spooky Irish ghost story about teenage twins living in a haunted house they can’t leave. I grew up in a large, dilapidated, haunted house… The Lodgers Read More
It Came From The Desert 3.5 stars
*** WIN: Two DVDs of It Came From The Desert to be won (UK only, ends 5 July 2018) *** As B movies go this is a corker: knowing but not too meta, witty, with schlocky horror tropes tripping over each other. Aliens! Giant bugs! Meteorites! Something dodgy going on back in the 1950s! The only… It Came From The Desert Read More
Family Games 3.5 stars
*** WIN – three Family Games iTunes downloads to be won (UK only, ends 5 July 2018) *** “Wouldn’t it be perfect if it rained” says Sloane to her boyfriend Barrett as a taxi takes them to her dad’s isolated woodland home before his remarriage the next day. Barrett has the good grace to look uncomfortable… Family Games Read More
A Bad Idea Gone Wrong 3.5 stars
*** WIN iTunes codes for A Bad Idea Gone Wrong (UK only, ends 5 July 2018) *** “This is the saddest heist in the long-storied history of crime” says first-time burglar Marlon as he and fellow future felon Leo attempt to escape from a house they’ve broken into and are now unable to leave. That title… A Bad Idea Gone Wrong Read More
Take Rabbit (Short Film) Short Film 4 stars
*** Read my interview with Take Rabbit‘s director, the Oscar- and BAFTA-nominated Peter Peake *** “You gets what you gives” says the Man as he gradually decides to start interacting with the world once more, ending his self-imposed conversational exile. It’s a change brought about in the main by a meeting with a talking Liverpudlian… Take Rabbit (Short Film) Read More
Life And The Art Of Lying (Short Film) Short Film 3 stars
“Fuck you Charlie, fuck you!” screams Mara, a young woman finally able to admit her feelings for Charlie, but who has just been blindsided by a huge secret Charlie has been keeping from her. Our first sympathies are always with Charlie of course, who has found out her cancer has turned, an illness she has… Life And The Art Of Lying (Short Film) Read More
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom 3.5 stars
‘Twas a dark and stormy night… not unlike the one in Jurassic Park. The dilemma facing any Jurassic franchise director is how to add anything new. Like the customers of Clare’s destroyed dino park, we’ve forgotten the first time we saw live dinosaurs; and we too want them bigger, with more teeth. We tut at… Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom Read More
Book Club 3 stars
It’s tempting to treat Book Club as the long-awaited sequel to the Sex In The City movies (Sex In The Suburbs?). Vivian (Jane Fonda) as sex-mad Samantha, Diane (Diane Keaton) as quirky Carrie, Carol (Mary Steenburgen) as the vanilla Charlotte and Sharon (Candice Bergen) as highflying Miranda. Though if they are, the four women have… Book Club Read More
Hangman 2 stars
I love the game Hangman, and play it all the time with my youngest. He only uses two words – POO and BOOBIES – which should speed things up. Though sadly he can’t spell, which makes the game last almost as long as the one in this movie; and though no one dies we do… Hangman Read More
The Happy Prince 4 stars
Rupert Everett’s broken Oscar Wilde is sombrely, slowly riveting as he claims to be making plans to reconcile with his wife while at the same time hurtling towards his own self-destruction. As Oscar remarks to his literary executor, friend and sometime lover Robbie Ross (a believably steady Edwin Thomas): “Why does one run towards ruin? Why… The Happy Prince Read More
Deadpool 2 4 stars
It’s half way through Deadpool 2 and as the body count rises the Fourth Wall is reduced to mere rubble, which means in future all movies will simply be our favourite stars talking directly to us through the screen, or maybe next to us on our sofas. The opening credits to Deadpool 2 are as… Deadpool 2 Read More
2001: A Space Odyssey (Cannes 2018) 5 stars
I’m usually that person saying it’s okay to watch movies any way you can – Netflix, cinema, laptop, mobile phone. Hell, download it to your own eyeball then look for explanations in a recently-discovered ancient cave painting, if it works for you. But 2001: A Space Odyssey is one that, if you get the chance,… 2001: A Space Odyssey (Cannes 2018) Read More
- 1
- 2
- 3
- …
- 31
- Next Page »