As six year old Samuel’s doctor says, “all children see monsters”. Or hear them, under the bed and on the stairs. It’s a response to something they can’t control, and a way of making sense of big events in their lives. Most aren’t stalked through the darkness by a terrifying black hatted figure who wants… The Babadook Read More
Big Hero 6 4.5 stars
I took my two boys to see Big Hero 6 at the kids’ club cinema this weekend and we all loved it. It’s funny, touching, sad, exciting, and beautifully animated. I love films that create a world that is still partly recognisable and San Fransokyo is exactly that. Yes I know Big Hero 6 came out two years ago… Big Hero 6 Read More
A Street Cat Named Bob 3 stars
Based on the international best selling book. The true feel good story of how James Bowen, a busker and recovering drug addict, had his life transformed when he met a stray ginger cat. *** Read my review of the sequel, A Christmas Gift From Bob *** Based on a true story about a young man’s… A Street Cat Named Bob Read More
American Pastoral 2.5 stars
An All-American college star and his beauty queen wife watch their seemingly perfect life fall apart as their daughter joins the turmoil of ’60s America. I don’t often pick up Great American Novels. Mainly because they’re so heavy and I can’t risk putting my back out. They’re like bricks. You could build a new America… American Pastoral Read More
Breakfast Club 3.5 stars
I like to think of Breakfast Club as happening a few hours before Fight Club, a place where everyone gets all the talking they can’t do about Fight Club out of their system, as all anyone seems to do on Breakfast Club – apart from a brief interlude dancing round the study hall to “We… Breakfast Club Read More
Arrival 5 stars
Warning: slightly spoilery. Arrival is challenging yet comforting science fiction and frankly it’s about time. And language – Captain Cook, keen to know the name of the bouncy animal with the pouch, asked a group of Aborigines. Kangaroo they replied, and so it became, though actually kangaroo turned out to simply mean “I don’t know”…. Arrival Read More
Movie 43 1 stars
The worst film ever made. That’s what Movie 43 is known as. Which I think is unfair as it isn’t the very worst film ever made. (I can say that with some authority as I’ve seen Home Alone 4). It is bad though. A collection of 15 shortish sketches, the US version released in cinemas… Movie 43 Read More
Carrie 3 stars
When I first saw the original Carrie (not when it came out in 1976 – I’m not THAT old) – with its horrific tale about puberty and first periods dressed up with the ultimate mean girls and telekinetic fire-starting powers – I completely got it. Puberty is horrible. Teenage periods are horrible. Just remembering it… Carrie Read More
Light Between Oceans 4 stars
Guilt. That’s what they could have called Light Between Oceans, though it wouldn’t have conveyed the light-drenched sunrises that the gorgeous cinematography scatters through this film. And I was already feeling guilty at hardly having reviewed any Fassbender films despite him being officially trademarked as one of the Best Actors of his Generation. I have… Light Between Oceans Read More
Shame 4 stars
The night before watching Shame on TV, I started on Westworld, the HBO series. I loved the set up and the story but after a rather wearying hour of endlessly pert naked actresses of varying levels of famousness it was quite a relief to then see Michael Fassbender in Shame recalibrate the male/female on-screen nudity scales. Yes there… Shame Read More
Hotel Transylvania 3.5 stars
Let’s face it, really all a top notch kids’ movie needs is at least one excellent fart joke, a running time of around 90 minutes and a story where good triumphs over evil. But mainly, an excellent fart joke. Actually I’d happily take these criteria for any movie, whichever age group it’s aimed at. But Hotel Transylvania – the animated… Hotel Transylvania Read More
Trolls 3D 4 stars
If your children aren’t sure about a trip to the cinema to watch Trolls this Halloween half-term, just say these few words to them. No, not “I See Dead People”, but “They Poo Cupcakes”. Look I’m the first to admit I’m the very worst kind of British cynic, dropping what I think are darkly droll bon-mots from the sidelines… Trolls 3D Read More
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