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Invasion Planet Earth 2 stars☆☆☆☆☆

4th December 2019 by Sarah Leave a Comment

Invasion Planet Earth

It never rains but it pours as we like to say in weather-obsessed Britain, and that’s certainly true of Invasion Planet Earth. Not literally. This isn’t Geostorm. But our planet, already on the brink of a world war, is faced with an alien invasion. Simon Cox’s feature (he directed, produced and co-wrote the screenplay) has been… Invasion Planet Earth Read More

Filed Under: Featured 3, Film Reviews, Support Indie Film Tagged With: aliens, bereavement, hero, london, war

Mickey And The Bear 4 stars☆☆☆☆☆

12th November 2019 by Sarah Leave a Comment

Mickey And The Bear

Hank, a veteran of the Iraq War, now spend his days looking for ways to dull the pain of PTSD and his painkiller addiction. His daughter Mickey, nearly 18, looks after him, their parent-child relationship turned on its head in too many ways. A coming-of-age drama about trying to escape when others are trying to… Mickey And The Bear Read More

Filed Under: Film Reviews, Support Indie Film Tagged With: bereavement, family, Montana, ptsd, veteran, war

Angel Has Fallen 4 stars☆☆☆☆☆

21st August 2019 by Sarah Leave a Comment

Angel Has Fallen

American movie presidents can only make us wistful nowadays, and in Angel Has Fallen the White House is graced by Morgan Freeman himself, as President Allan Trumbull. Yes there is a god, probably also played by Morgan Freeman. Trumbull has been promoted since London Has Fallen, Mike Banning’s last batshit outing, when taking on hundreds… Angel Has Fallen Read More

Filed Under: Featured 1, Film Reviews Tagged With: Mike Banning, secret service, war

Apocalypse Now – Final Cut 5 stars☆☆☆☆☆

12th August 2019 by Sarah Leave a Comment

Apocalypse Now – Final Cut

War is traditionally described as mostly boredom for its participants with short bursts of gut-wrenching, bloody terror, and this is no exception. Often into that sliver of a gap between the two states fit extremes of behaviour and personality; those people who almost seem to thrive on the chaos. Captain Benjamin Willard (Martin Sheen) and… Apocalypse Now – Final Cut Read More

Filed Under: Film Reviews Tagged With: madness, vietnam, war

Dr Strangelove, back with a 4k restoration and probably Twitter’s longest ever hashtag

7th March 2019 by Sarah Leave a Comment

Dr Strangelove, back with a 4k restoration and probably Twitter’s longest ever hashtag

*** Read my 5-star Dr Strangelove review and my interview with Matt Wells, director of new short film Stanley Kubrick Considers The Bomb *** 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…. Dr Strangelove, back with a 4k restoration and probably Twitter’s longest ever hashtag Read More

Filed Under: Trailers Tagged With: black comedy, dr strangelove, george c scott, kubrick, nuclear bomb, peter sellers, satire, Stanley Kubrick Considers The Bomb, sterling hayden, war

An American Piano (Short Film) Short Film 4 stars☆☆☆☆☆

15th February 2019 by Sarah Leave a Comment

An American Piano (Short Film)

Music, like war, is a great leveller. During World War Two, Youko (Leon Masuda), a little girl living in Japan with plans to train to be a concert pianist, sits at her grand piano playing Chopin. Across the way, an Allied prisoner of war listens and catches her eye. Based on a true story, An… An American Piano (Short Film) Read More

Filed Under: Film Reviews, Support Indie Film Tagged With: Japan, music, piano, prisoner of war, war, ww2

OutLaw King 3.5 stars☆☆☆☆☆

13th November 2018 by Sarah 2 Comments

OutLaw King

This is a traditional account of Robert Bruce’s fightback against the English as the Scottish nobleman claims his country’s crown, taking on Edward I and his son Edward, Prince Of Wales (later Edward II). There are no gimmicks, and watching it on Netflix, it did feel as if TV is a good home for it;… OutLaw King Read More

Filed Under: Film Reviews Tagged With: edward I, edward II, england, Loudoun hill, robert bruce, robert the bruce, scotland, war

Hunter Killer 3.5 stars☆☆☆☆☆

20th October 2018 by Sarah 1 Comment

Hunter Killer

*** Check out my submarine movies section *** One side-effect of the current political situation is that films like Hunter Killer are stuck in that 1990s post-Cold War warm glow where protagonists and presidents are decent people who just happen to have been born on different sides of an arbitrary border. While their real life equivalents are… Hunter Killer Read More

Filed Under: Film Reviews, Submarines Tagged With: america, coup, russia, submarine, war

The Darkest Hour Trailer May Be My Darkest Hour…

13th July 2017 by Sarah 2 Comments

The Darkest Hour Trailer May Be My Darkest Hour…

*** My Darkest Hour review is now live *** …as I used up all my Churchillian superlatives for Brian Cox’s Winston in the recent movie – and Gary Oldman looks like he’s going to be incredible in this. WHAT TO DO, WHAT TO DO. Oh and thanks to this and the “other” Churchill I found out I’ve… The Darkest Hour Trailer May Be My Darkest Hour… Read More

Filed Under: Trailers Tagged With: churchill, coalition government, darkest hour, darkest hour trailer, gary oldman, george vi, joe wright, nazis, war, war film, wartime, winston churchill

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Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, John Wick lover and Gerard Butler apologist. My top 5 films:
1. John Wick: Demonhunter (AKA Constantine)
2. John Wick
3. Mike Banning vs John Wick
4. Mike Banning vs John Wick: Requiem
5. Anything with bonnets

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Stardog & Turbocat 3 stars☆☆☆☆☆

Invasion Planet Earth 2 stars☆☆☆☆☆

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The Third Man 5 stars☆☆☆☆☆

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