As usual from the 225 Film Club, this year’s shortlist offered up a fabulous mix of funny, moving, intriguing and — of course — entertaining short films. The depth of stories that can be told in a short film, ranging from quarter of an hour down to a short sharp minute, is testament to the… 225 Film Club: winners and shortlisted films reviewed Read More
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Enola Holmes is back in new sequel trailer
Go Big. Go Holmes. Oh sh*t, Sherlock, your sister’s after your job… Yes, despite being a mere teenager, Enola Holmes is opening her own detective agency, like her brother. (People grew up faster then — you could be crawling under a loom at 4.) Here’s the synopsis: Fresh off the triumph of solving her first… Enola Holmes is back in new sequel trailer Read More
WOOOOOOdunnit? Spooky Agatha Christie tale starts filming in time for Halloween…
Hercule Poirot is to return — in a little-known story of seances and ghosts. Maybe this time his famous moustache will start twirling all by itself? Production on 20th Century Studios’ “ Haunting in Venice, an unsettling supernatural-thriller inspired by Agatha Christie’s novel Hallowe’en Party, is set to begin next month. The film will open in… WOOOOOOdunnit? Spooky Agatha Christie tale starts filming in time for Halloween… Read More
See How They Run 3.5 stars
A rookie WPC and her inspector try to solve a murder committed in 1950s London theatreland. I love watching anything Agatha Christie-related: her tightly-plotted mysteries, clues in plain sight yet inexplicably invisible until that last drawing room denouement. And I love to follow her detectives’ methodology as I sit my two sons in the drawing… See How They Run Read More
Clarkson’s Farm (TV series, season 1) 4.5 stars
A Year in the life of Jeremy Clarkson’s Cotswolds farm, which he takes on when his tenant farmer decides to retire. Want to know how to become a millionaire? Start off a billionaire and buy a 1000-acre arable farm in England. Or you could win Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, the very quiz show… Clarkson’s Farm (TV series, season 1) Read More
Chapter 5 recap: Pan(dem)icking
Chapter 1: Tractoring / Chapter 2: Sheeping / Chapter 3: Shopping / Chapter 4: Wilding / Chapter 6: Melting / Chapter 7: Fluffing / Chapter 8: Harvesting (Looking for my review? It’s here.) It’s February 2020. Jeremy is preparing for lambing season, and they’ve built a lambing barn. But soon the news is full of… Chapter 5 recap: Pan(dem)icking Read More
The Reef: Stalked 3 stars
Four women are hunted by a shark while on a seagoing kayaking adventure. Received wisdom is that sharks got a raw deal from Peter Benchley’s novel and Spielberg’s classic movie. Though they’ve now been so thoroughly rehabilitated — personally I trace it back to Viz magazine’s self-explanatory cartoon strip The Pathetic Sharks — it’s hard… The Reef: Stalked Read More
Time to rewind in the Press Play trailer
“If music be the food of love play on”, said Shakespeare’s Duke Orsino in Twelfth Night, trying to listen to so much he’d go off his crush Olivia. He should have put together a selection of favourite, meaningful lute bangers for her and paid the band to stand beneath her window playing them in a… Time to rewind in the Press Play trailer Read More
I feel the need, the need for speed (writing): my Top Gun — Maverick plot summary
So busy muttering “oh my god!” as Maverick’s plane emerged from under one of his pilots during the dogfight training that you missed some of the plot? Maybe, like my 10 year old, you had your hands over your eyes during “the kissing bit”? Check out my plot re-cap below. (If you’re after my five-star… I feel the need, the need for speed (writing): my Top Gun — Maverick plot summary Read More
Top Gun: Maverick 5 stars
Pete “Maverick” Mitchell, now in his 50s, is brought back to teach a new band of Top Gun academy graduates how to run a dangerous mission to destroy a uranium facility. There’s only so many years a man can continue climbing on his emotional support motorbike and racing himself at 80 along a deserted highway…. Top Gun: Maverick Read More
Cop Secret clip & trailer: don’t Messi with Icelandic super cop Bussi
The fast-paced comedy stars Auðunn Blöndal as your usual maverick, hard-drinking, no-nonsense, brutal cop in a tight white vest… but he has a secret: he has a crush on hunky fellow policeman Hörđur (Egill Einarsson). I’m a big fan of workplace crushes, but in this case it distracts him from his job tracking down a… Cop Secret clip & trailer: don’t Messi with Icelandic super cop Bussi Read More
Senior Year: dreams can come true
Age may not have withered Steph, but after 20 comatose years with a high calorie feeding tube it has given her massive boobs. Luckily the cheerleading outfit still fits. Very spoilery, obviously. Check out my thoughts on that Dream Theme, or scroll down for a plot re-cap including the ending (If you’re after my review,… Senior Year: dreams can come true Read More
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