Growing up in the 80s, when I wasn’t crimping my hair and listening to Duran Duran berating me for being “about as easy as a nuclear war”*, I was worrying about surviving one. I still am! But while the world’s heading towards its doom right now, stop digging that fallout shelter for a minute –… Dr Strangelove, back with a 4k restoration and probably Twitter’s longest ever hashtag Read More
Sorry To Bother You (London Film Festival) 4 stars
With so many of us well-boiled frogs now, the only way to demonstrate how crazily evil our world has become is to take the metaphors and make them concrete. That’s what Boots Riley has done with his blunt satire Sorry To Bother You. In this alternative reality which isn’t that alternative, America has continued the… Sorry To Bother You (London Film Festival) Read More
Heathers 4.5 stars
The 80s was a blunt decade, designed to disrupt – oversized, brash and brightly-coloured, where the brave and bullish could succeed. In a time defined by red lipstick, shrinking violets need not apply. Everything is over-oversized in Heathers. It’s even bigger, brasher, brighter and more vicious than the decade it satirises. Unsurprisingly in this live-action,… Heathers Read More
Sorry Not Sorry: The “Sorry To Bother You” Trailer
*** Read my Sorry To Bother You Review *** Not sorry as this film looks like a hoot. And even if it’s not, any movie that manages to mix sci-fi and telemarketing deserves a watch. In fact if you don’t see it when it comes out, I may have to cold-call you under the pretext… Sorry Not Sorry: The “Sorry To Bother You” Trailer Read More