What small child wouldn’t like to be able to talk to animals? It’s got to be more interesting than listening to parents wittering on about “the olden days” (ie 1995). Princess Emmy is what we should probably call a Horse Chatterer, a tween princess whose best friend is a horse called Ceasar. There are 24… Princess Emmy Read More
Princess Emmy (kids’ review!) 2.5 stars
In Princess Emmy she has a gift because she can talk to her horses. Her favourite horse is called Ceasar. I talk to my cat but she doesn’t understand that many words. In the film Princess Emmy lives in a castle with her family. Her cousin Gizana is mean to her. She comes to stay because they… Princess Emmy (kids’ review!) Read More
Alternate Endings: Six New Ways to Die in America 3.5 stars
A funeral industry expert in the US predicts significant numbers of closures of traditional funeral homes over the next few years – in the death business, it’s adapt or die. Funerals, like weddings, sure aren’t like they used to be. From tubs of Irish earth so expats can be buried in a part of their… Alternate Endings: Six New Ways to Die in America Read More
Apocalypse Now – Final Cut 5 stars
War is traditionally described as mostly boredom for its participants with short bursts of gut-wrenching, bloody terror, and this is no exception. Often into that sliver of a gap between the two states fit extremes of behaviour and personality; those people who almost seem to thrive on the chaos. Captain Benjamin Willard (Martin Sheen) and… Apocalypse Now – Final Cut Read More
Blinded By The Light 3 stars
By 1987 Mrs Thatcher had been in power for eight years and believe me it felt like a whole lot longer than that at the time. As if things could get any worse, Curiosity Killed the Cat, Tiffany and Debbie Gibson were mounting assaults on the UK charts. I’d tried to block all of those… Blinded By The Light Read More
The Angry Birds Movie 2 3.5 stars
It was with a degree of trepidation that this sometimes angry bird plus 2 fledglings sat down to watch Angry Birds Movie 2. I’ve never played the game, or seen the first film. Neither of my children wanted to see it. Well, if I was wearing a marzipan hat I’d eat it now (no hardship,… The Angry Birds Movie 2 Read More
Notorious (4k re-release) 4.5 stars
Alfred Hitchcock’s Notorious (rereleased by the BFI in a stunning 4K restoration) pairs Cary Grant with Ingrid Bergman in a nail-biting thriller where an investigation into South American Nazi enclaves becomes entangled with the messiness of human relationships – as both the chilly Devlin and urbane Nazi Alex Sebastian fall in love with Alicia, the German-American daughter of… Notorious (4k re-release) Read More
Charming 2.5 stars
Charming positions heroine Lenore as being misguided for demanding great riches as payment for taking Prince Philippe safely through his Run The Gauntlet challenge – I prefer to see her as an independent working woman who knows the value of her skills. She even – spoiler – gives all her money away at the end…. Charming Read More
Charming (kids’ review!) 4 stars
At the end of Charming they have a true love kiss. Ugh. Luckily it’s not in real life. I didn’t want to watch Charming as I thought it would be boring but I liked it. Prince Charming (Wilmer Valderrama) has a curse on him from Nemeny Neverwish (Nia Vardalos) so women fall in love with… Charming (kids’ review!) Read More
Benjamin 4 stars
A second film, like a second album, is fraught with problems, but it also offers a rich seam of jokes, especially around the double edged sword that early success brings. “Ideally I’d have just made that film and died”, young filmmaker Benjamin tells his publicist, Billie about his first movie. “Is that not a good answer…?”… Benjamin Read More
Angry Birds Movie 2 (kids’ review!) 5 stars
*** Read my mum’s 3.5/5 review here *** Today I went to see The Angry Birds Movie 2 with my mum and brother. I really didn’t want to go. I didn’t think it would be any good as I used to like Angry Birds but don’t any more but… IT WAS SUPER GOOD. At the… Angry Birds Movie 2 (kids’ review!) Read More
The Nightingale (Sundance London) 3 stars
It’s an easy get-out, to anoint a movie “a hard watch”, but Jennifer Kent’s period revenge thriller The Nightingale is just that. I went in with no other information beyond this being a follow up to The Babadook, a horror film about a menaced, powerless child but really about loneliness and grief. This is, in… The Nightingale (Sundance London) Read More
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