In the short film Visualization eyes are both a tantalising and upsetting glimpse into the conflicts and struggles of an artist’s mind and an unnerving indication of a doctor’s malevolence. Or is that just how her patients see her? Written and directed by filmmaker Abdolrahman Sarraei, there’s a very 1960s sensibility to Vizualisation, from the… Visualization (short film) Read More
Follow The Dead 3 stars
A family of idle Millennials has to decide how to respond to an outbreak of zombies. I’ve watched so many zombie movies now I’m rather hardened, and my first thought when a character in Follow The Dead was bitten on the ankle was “FGS just cut his leg off already!” Well technically I didn’t think… Follow The Dead Read More
Plane 4 stars
When a passenger plane crashes onto a rebel-held island, the plan’s captain must team up with an accused killer to rescue the passengers and get them to safety. “Redemption can only be found in the most unusual places,” says Louis Gaspare (a spare and charismatic Mike Colter) to Captain Brodie Torrance (Gerard Butler, also charismatic… Plane Read More
Netflix and chill: the film club discusses The Pale Blue Eye 3 stars
We’ve reconvened the film club for Poe, poetry and The Pale Blue Eye. Was it worthy or cornea? Did it hit an (optic) nerve? (As usual, film club watches are super-spoilery.) After yet another Good Bad Film Club hiatus (it takes us eight months scrolling the streamers to decide on a movie) Liz and I… Netflix and chill: the film club discusses The Pale Blue Eye Read More
See How They Run 3.5 stars
A rookie WPC and her inspector try to solve a murder committed in 1950s London theatreland. I love watching anything Agatha Christie-related: her tightly-plotted mysteries, clues in plain sight yet inexplicably invisible until that last drawing room denouement. And I love to follow her detectives’ methodology as I sit my two sons in the drawing… See How They Run Read More
Maneater 2 stars
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
Clarkson’s Farm (TV series, season 1) 4.5 stars
A Year in the life of Jeremy Clarkson’s Cotswolds farm, which he takes on when his tenant farmer decides to retire. Want to know how to become a millionaire? Start off a billionaire and buy a 1000-acre arable farm in England. Or you could win Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, the very quiz show… Clarkson’s Farm (TV series, season 1) 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
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
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