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
GATLOPP: Hell Of A Game 3 stars
Four friends start playing a mysterious board game without reading the rules — rules that state they must have a winner by sunrise or they will all have to play in hell for eternity. An all-night drinking game. A “mistake wall”, papered with polaroids of meet-ups they’d rather forget. A lot of secrets. Actually that’s… GATLOPP: Hell Of A Game 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
H20h no! The Film Club watches Black Water: Abyss 2 stars
All film club write-ups are very spoilery. Also don’t worry if you don’t know the difference between a crocodile and an alligator, you find out two paragraphs in. It’s nearly a year since I’ve written about a film club watch, though Liz and I have continued determinedly viewing a narrow variety of low-budget horrors. And… H20h no! The Film Club watches Black Water: Abyss Read More
Why Didn’t They Ask Evans? (TV mini series) 4 stars
Childhood friends in a small Welsh village investigate the unexplained death of a man found at the bottom of a cliff. I started re-reading the novel when I heard this was coming out, because I wanted an escape from the world’s current problems, though it didn’t quite pan out like that. Agatha Christie’s 1934 whodunnit… Why Didn’t They Ask Evans? (TV mini series) Read More
Sonic The Hedgehog 2 3 stars
Dr Robotnik is back, and coming for Sonic the weekend he’s home alone… “I don’t want to die like this! It’s derivative!” So says Dr Robotnik (Jim Carrey), as he and his temporary partner in crime are being chased down the stone tunnels of an ancient temple by a giant spike-covered ball, while other centuries-old… Sonic The Hedgehog 2 Read More
Pursuit Of A Jigsaw (short film) Short Film 4 stars
A terrifying social satire that delves into the current state of America, the human psyche and relationships. Ahh, marriage. The joyous melding of two lives. It sounds lovely, but judging by Sam Mizrahi-Powell’s short-but-effective horror film Pursuit Of The Jigsaw would look extremely disturbing, if we saw the physical reality. Mizrahi-Powell calls his award winning… Pursuit Of A Jigsaw (short film) 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
Reed’s Point 2 stars
Sarah and Alex, injured in a crash a year before, head back to the same woods to look for answers. Ugly mug monsters. Humans with rock hard heads living according to the lyrics of ’90s band Chumbawamba’s hit Tubthumper: “I get knocked down, but I get up again”. Woods teeming with dodgy locals. Reed’s Point… Reed’s Point Read More
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