A record — from fans and band — of Oasis’s two record breaking nights at Knebworth on 10 and 11 August 1996, when over a quarter of a million young music fans from all over the world converged on Knebworth Park in Hertfordshire It’s often remarked upon when watching 20th century concert footage, but the… Oasis Knebworth 1996 Read More
Gunpowder Milkshake 2.5 stars
When a high-risk job goes wrong, hitwoman Sam must choose between serving The Firm and protecting the life of an innocent child, helped by her mother and three lethal librarians. This is another film with an assassins’ underground world hiding in plain sight within ours. Parallel universes bumping up against each other, they are all… Gunpowder Milkshake Read More
The Wonderful: Stories From The Space Station 3.5 stars
The story of the men and women who live inside the International Space Station, their stories played out against the vast, beautiful, bottomless, darkness of the universe. *** Read my interview with featured astronaut Cady Coleman *** There are myriad tiny details about living and working in space that surprise me, though it never occurred… The Wonderful: Stories From The Space Station Read More
The Colony 3 stars
Set in the distant future, a female astronaut, shipwrecked on the long-decimated Earth, must decide the fate of the wasteland’s remaining populace. The Colony kept me watching more for what it didn’t show than what it did. A world that in two generations has reverted to bows and arrows? Earth’s bedraggled surviving populace has potential… The Colony Read More
Copshop 4 stars
On the run from a lethal assassin, a wily con artist devises a scheme to hide out inside a small-town police station-but when the hitman turns up at the precinct, an unsuspecting rookie cop finds herself caught in the crosshairs. It’s all very well working on the assumption that your enemy’s enemy is your friend,… Copshop Read More
When The Screaming Starts 4 stars
A would-be serial killer decides to start a Manson-like murder cult with his girlfriend. Claire, Lady Macbeth to Aidan Mendle’s David Brent, is up front about what she can offer. “If you kill someone we can have sex,” she tells her boyfriend and murderer-in-training. The film-within-a-film being made in horror mockumentary When The Screaming Starts… When The Screaming Starts Read More
The Last Bus 2.5 stars
An elderly man takes his wife’s ashes from Scotland to Cornwall, by bus. Tom Harper, the old man at the centre of The Last Bus, is one of those people who says little while conveying a lot. Part-way through his long journey from John O’Groats to Land’s End he’s staying overnight in a scruffy hotel,… The Last Bus Read More
The Nest 5 stars
An insecure British trader in New York relocates his family back to the UK at the start of the ’80s financial boom. Back in 1987 a Volkswagen Golf advertisement showed a beautiful blonde woman in London striding away in anger from her presumably feckless husband towards her reliable old VW, while literally throwing away the… The Nest Read More
Free Guy 4 stars
A man in a video game finds his existence threatened just as he find out he is not actually real. One of the current “big” ideas about reality and existence is that we are actually living in a simulation. It’s my favourite, a modern twist on the idea of God, or the disinterested watchmaker who… Free Guy Read More
Pig 5 stars
A man’s truffle pig is stolen and he travels into the city to find it. Pig‘s titular pig is an adorable old ham. When she’s happy she snorts like an old man laughing at his own jokes, while the river tumbles and twigs crackle around her; when she’s taken you can hear her shrieking in… Pig Read More
Jungle Cruise 3 stars
An Edwardian scientist and her brother hire a local river captain to transport them along the Amazon in search of a mystical tree which could revolutionise medicine. Curses! Jungle Cruise sails very familiar territory. A lot of Indiana Jones, a hefty helping of Pirates Of The Caribbean, a dollop of Das Boot and a soupçon… Jungle Cruise Read More
Promising Young Woman 4 stars
Everyone said Cassie was a promising young woman… until a mysterious event abruptly derailed her future. But nothing in Cassie’s life is what it appears to be: she’s wickedly smart, tantalizingly cunning, and she’s living a secret double life by night. Writer-director Emerald Fennell seems to be both pushing and then questioning the avenging angel metaphor… Promising Young Woman Read More
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