“When I was growing up I would get a favourite race driver and he might be killed two weeks later. So I’d get another favourite race driver. He’d get killed two or three weeks later.” In a film stuffed with “what?!” moments, medic and lifelong motor racing fan Dr Stephen Olvey’s comment really brings home… Rapid Response Read More
The Witches 4 stars
A young boy stumbles onto a witch convention and must stop them, even after he has been turned into a mouse. Its nearly three decades since this film came out. Watching it now – and yes I know that viewing old films through modern eyes can be as problematic as the “issues” that have, in… The Witches Read More
The Witches (kids’ review!) 5 stars
I don’t believe in witches and I don’t believe in ghosts. The Tooth Fairy is real though. People say she uses the children’s teeth to build a castle of teeth but I don’t think that. The witches in this film have horrible toes so they have to wear horrible shoes and they are bald with… The Witches (kids’ review!) Read More
Bait 4.5 stars
Martin is a fisherman without a boat, his brother Steven having re-purposed it as a tourist tripper. With their childhood home now a get-away for London money, Martin is displaced to the estate above the harbour. Despite its tough subject matter, there’s a magic saturating writer-director Mark Jenkin’s film, shot on a vintage 16mm camera… Bait Read More
Falling Inn Love 3 stars
To B&B or not to B&B, that is the question – as American city girl Gabriela wins an actual New Zealand guesthouse in a competition, meeting handsome local builder Jake when she turns up to view her beautiful but ramshackle prize (which at least comes with its own goat, Gilbert). To which I could also… Falling Inn Love Read More
Angel Has Fallen – 1 minute video review Includes Video 4 stars
And this is my final word on the matter! read my full review of Angel Has Fallen Available on DVD / blu-ray / 4k from amazon uk Available on digital from Amazon uk buy on digital or dvd / blue-ray / 4k now from amazon.com
Pain And Glory 5 stars
This is definitely a comment rather than a question, but the fictional film director’s Q&A in Pedro Almodóvar’s delicious Pain And Glory is the most glorious I’ve ever seen. Incapacitated by memories and the drugs he’s taken, 50-something filmmaker Salvador Mallo (a fantastic Antonio Banderas) is tracked down to his kitchen as a cinema full of… Pain And Glory Read More
Olympus Has Fallen 3.5 stars
Olympus Has Fallen came out in 2013, when I had a one-year-old baby and the idea of being held incommunicado without my family in a bomb-proof bunker would have sounded like a dream come true. Sadly, said baby meant I didn’t get to see this in the cinema, his preference being White House Down, I… Olympus Has Fallen Read More
Angel Has Fallen 4 stars
American movie presidents can only make us wistful nowadays, and in Angel Has Fallen the White House is graced by Morgan Freeman himself, as President Allan Trumbull. Yes there is a god, probably also played by Morgan Freeman. Trumbull has been promoted since London Has Fallen, Mike Banning’s last batshit outing, when taking on hundreds… Angel Has Fallen Read More
Aniara 4 stars
Earth is burning, and the answer is to move the surviving population to Mars. The final shuttle ride from the doomed planet blends the humdrum with the remarkable: a mum tries to make her child understand the finality of what they’re doing and wave at their old home (“want to say bye-bye Earth? … you’ll… Aniara Read More
Once Upon A Time In… Hollywood 4 stars
Warning: spoilers ahead, so no moaning please (unless of the art film kind) It’s been called a love letter to Hollywood, though with that title, Tarantino’s ninth movie also plays into our – and Hollywood’s – love of re-booted fairy stories that have lost their original callous brutality and now finish with everyone living happily ever… Once Upon A Time In… Hollywood Read More
Hail Satan? 4.5 stars
Stirring in both senses, Penny Lane’s documentary is an authentic and witty call to arms against an increasingly corrupt and oppressive State. The Salem-based Satanic Temple’s publicity stunts have the power to shock the Religious Right while leaving the rest of us giggling silently. “How do you fuck with Fred Phelps”, asks co-founder Malcolm Jarry. You… Hail Satan? Read More
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