Film Review – Jackpot! (2024)
Who wouldn’t want to win big on the lottery? Rhetorical question. But put yourself in 2030’s California, the setting for...
Who wouldn’t want to win big on the lottery? Rhetorical question. But put yourself in 2030’s California, the setting for...
For over 20 years, Nora Ephron was the darling of romantic movies. The list of favourites trips off the...
After a decidedly wobbly start, adaptations of video games have been on the up, both in terms of quality...
It touches everybody – at a distance and more personally – yet death remains the last taboo, something we...
The inspirational teacher. It’s a movie standard: Dead Poets’ Society, To Sir With Love, even School Of Rock all come...
It’s an idea packed with cuteness. A small boy, little more than a toddler, creates the world around him by...
“I’m going to kill myself.” The startling opening line of Janet Planet is guaranteed to make the audience sit up...
Back in 1996, director Jan De Bont brought us Twister, a fast n fierce blockbuster that turned out to be...
The face is familiar, the name perhaps not so much. June Squibb, scene stealing queen of supporting roles from Nebraska...
It’s seven years since the previous Despicable Me film. Not that it seems like it. And that’s down to the...
It was a different world fifty five years ago. Mobile phones? Home computers? What were those? Movies were in colour,...
It was a project so close to the hearts of co-directors Sally El Hosaini and James Krishna Floyd that developing...
“Everybody just wants what they can’t have.” What – or, rather, who - Asian drag queen Aysha wants is sat...
If a sequel which genuinely lives up to the original is a big ask, then a threequel is the cinematic...