*** click down for two film clips, the trailer and images *** The Nostromo, the towing ship pulling a mining refinery, takes its name from the title of a novel by Joseph Conrad. In the book, Nostromo the man is a tool of the rich, which neatly sums up how the company sees Ripley, Dallas, Kane, Lambert and… Alien (4k Restoration: 2019) Read More
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Hobbs & Shaw furious but team up fast in new trailer
UPDATE 4 Feb 2019: check out the new Hobbs & Shaw images, released today – plus scroll down for last night’s Super Bowl teaser It may sound like a posh shoe shop on Marylebone High Street but Hobbs & Shaw is actually the first standalone spin off from the hugely successful ($5 billion so far) Fast &… Hobbs & Shaw furious but team up fast in new trailer Read More
A Star Is Born (1976) 3 stars
*** Looking for the 2018 version? Check out my review here *** The 1976 version of A Star Is Born is gloriously over the top, lurid, and both self-obsessed and superficial in its obsessions. But so am I, so it’s no surprise I am now developing rather a liking for it. This is the third movie… A Star Is Born (1976) Read More
Blade Runner 2049 4 stars
This is a bleak future, both burning and frozen. Roger Deakins’ cinematography is extraordinary: the sky is by turns orange with a red sun; white, as pretty snow falls onto monolithic buildings; or black as that mind-drumming rain returns to drench brightly-lit tower block windows. Inside, everything is functional. Outside, giant adverts featuring naked women… Blade Runner 2049 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
Madame Web 2 stars
A paramedic whose mom was in the Amazon researching spiders right before she died has to save three teenage girls from a man intent on killing them But for an editorial swerve, Madame Web could have been Hamlet. By which I mean cursed with a line that has the audience on such tenterhooks waiting for… Madame Web Read More
Class and the ending of Saltburn
Actually Saltburn will always endure, despite modern day Oliver stating “It’s the end of everything” as he reminisces about the morning Felix’s body is discovered. Whoever its owner, it will simply remain. See below for more on why Oliver turning out to be middle class is such a blow for the Cattons, and click down… Class and the ending of Saltburn Read More
The Boys In The Boat ending: down the last straight
Is it really a spoiler article if the film has been promoted as the true story of the USA rowing eight winning the gold medal in the 1936 Olympics — but here’s the “in case you missed it” stuff, picking up just before they take part in the Poughkeepsie Regatta… (If you’re after my review,… The Boys In The Boat ending: down the last straight Read More
Whodunnit or woohoodunnit? A Haunting In Venice explained
So the killer was calling from inside the house… Scroll down for the victims, the murderer, the blackmailer(s), the connivers and the conspirators. I’ve bolded the key information if you just want to scan. (My review is here.) There are three murders in the building: of Alicia Drake (which takes place well before our visit);… Whodunnit or woohoodunnit? A Haunting In Venice explained Read More
Follow The Dead 3 stars
A family of idle Millennials has to decide how to respond to an outbreak of zombies. *** UPDATE! Follow The Dead is now available on Apple TV in Ireland *** 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… Follow The Dead Read More
“Feet wet!” Dipping our toes into Plane: its leading men, crew and those passengers
Planes are mostly safe but occasionally bad things can happen to ordinary people. I once landed back in London from a holiday in Sardinia only to hear the man in front say to his wife, as we exited Club Class filled with noisy families who had upgraded to escape other noisy families, “that was worse… “Feet wet!” Dipping our toes into Plane: its leading men, crew and those passengers Read More
Plane recap: no flying blind…
What happened to the passengers? What happened to the captain? And more importantly, what happened to that big bag of cash? Very spoilery. (If your looking for my 4-star review, it’s here. Or check out my article “Feet wet!” Dipping our toes into Plane) It’s New Year’s Eve and Captain Brodie Torrance is running late… Plane recap: no flying blind… Read More
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