A young man tries to help his sibling who has been turned into a vampire in modern-day Dublin. Trainspotter-turned-staker Henry might not be John Wick but he did once kill three vampires in a taxi with a sharpened stick, and if that isn’t nearly a pencil I don’t know what is. He’s on a mission… Let The Wrong One In Read More
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Death On The Nile: whocouldhavedunnit and whoactuallydunnit
Spoilers ahoy, me hearty. Who dies? Who killed them? Who probably wanted to kill them but didn’t? The beginning, the ending, the suspects, and… what’s love got to do with it? Scroll down now. (If you’re after my review, it’s here) The beginning… As a young man in 1914, Poirot, a farmer, is in the… Death On The Nile: whocouldhavedunnit and whoactuallydunnit Read More
Last Train To Christmas 3 stars
Nightclub owner Tony Towers, on a train with his fiancée on Christmas Eve 1985, sees how his life might have been if he had made different decisions along the way. The synopsis of Last Train To Christmas made it sound like a mash-up of A Christmas Carol, Snowpiercer, Sliding Doors and The Hitman And Her… Last Train To Christmas Read More
A Castle For Christmas: ending explained (wait, what?)
ENDING EXPLAINED? IN A NETFLIX CHRISTMAS ROMANCE MOVIE? Okay: They realise they’ve been stupid and admit they love each other, The End. The slightly longer version is here: Sophie and Myles finally become a couple thanks to Hamish the dog running off with her shoe when she’s trying on a black taffeta and tartan ball… A Castle For Christmas: ending explained (wait, what?) Read More
She was always a Spencer!
Very spoilery, of course. If you’re after my Spencer review, it’s here. “Go! Run!” Spencer is about a three-day period one Christmas in the early 1990s. Diana is joining the rest of the royal family at Sandringham (one of the Queen’s houses) in Norfolk; she and Charles are not yet separated. It’s an imagined series… She was always a Spencer! Read More
Spencer 3.5 stars
Princess Diana joins the Royal family for Christmas at Sandringham. I have had an uneasy if entirely one-sided relationship with Princess Diana for nearly 40 years now, ranging from bafflement to astonishment to sympathy. I’m not sure this film really changes things, so used to her reappraisal am I now. In Pablo Larraín’s icily beautiful… Spencer Read More
Last Train To Christmas: The Hitman And Her meets A Christmas Carol meets Snowpiercer
*** Read my review and (very spoilery) article here *** Honestly, when I saw this photo I thought we ’80s kids were finally getting the Pepsi and Shirlie biopic we’d been hoping for. But no, that *is* Michael Sheen (The Twilight Saga, The Queen) and Nathalie Emmanuel (Game of Thrones, Fast & Furious 7) who have joined the cast of Last… Last Train To Christmas: The Hitman And Her meets A Christmas Carol meets Snowpiercer Read More
No Time To Die explained
Very spoilery. Yes I cried. Scroll down for the ending, the meaning of Heracles, and a plot recap. (My 4.5/5 review is here.) ******************************************** Well it turned out he did have time to die, albeit after nearly three hours. Bond’s death M has ordered a Royal Navy vessel to launch a missile attack on”Poison Garden… No Time To Die explained Read More
Diana: The Musical 2 stars
Diana’s life from 1982 to 1997, in song. “Has your torture finished,” enquired my 9 year old, an hour and a half into Diana: The Musical. Admittedly he veers to the dramatic — “what is the point of me being here,” he asked, aged 7, when I took him to see the film Cats —… Diana: The Musical Read More
Deerskin 4 stars
Georges is a man who has one ambition – to possess the finest jacket in the world at the expense of all others. It may be 100% deerskin but Georges’s new jacket is also the G.O.A.T., an item of clothing so perfect he’s prepared to spend his (and his wife’s!) life savings on it: 7,500… Deerskin Read More
The Green Knight 4 stars
Gawain, King Arthur’s headstrong nephew, embarks on a daring quest to confront the eponymous Green Knight, a gigantic stranger and tester of men. The Green Knight is about the making of legends, though by the end it looks very much as if a chivalric knight is just a sacrificial victim. It’s certainly relevant to us… The Green Knight 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
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