Film Review – xXx: Return Of Xander Cage (2017)
Vin Diesel, he of the muscles and the vacant smile, has returned, cap in hand, to the XXX series apparently...
Film Reviews
Film Review – Hunters Lodge
Hunters Lodge is a 2016 psychological thriller about a war veteran who visits a remote island lodge for a funeral...
Film Review – Lion (2017)
Beautifully told true story not saturated with over sentimental cliches although that does not mean you won't need tissues to...
Revisiting Scorsese’s Goodfellas (1990)
With Martin Scorsese’s new religious epic Silence in cinemas nationwide this January, the BFI in association with Warner Bros Pictures...
DVD Review – Onus (2016)
Left Films has done it again! They have given us a lot of amazing films in 2016 and this (being...
Film Review – Jackie (2017)
Natalie Portman delivers a performance packed with devastating nuance in the aesthetically magnificent Jackie from Chilean filmmaker Pablo Larrain (The...
Film Review -Manchester By The Sea
Eloquence and authenticity might not be what you’d expect from a man who apparently cut his teeth on the irreverent...
Blu-ray Review – Rintaro’s Metropolis
With Rintaro’s towering animated epic, Metropolis (2001), getting a long-awaited Blu-Ray release in the UK, there is no better time...
Film Review – La La Land (2017)
The sparkling opening moments of an all singing all dancing production number amidst Los Angeles highway gridlock instantly captures your...
Film Review – Underworld: Blood Wars (2017)
After thirteen years and five films the only unsurprising thing is that excellent British talent Kate Beckinsale still looks superior...
“La La Land” – Damien Chazelle
I will never not find the prospect of a musical most off-putting. The music and the film only ever seem...
DVD Review – Hell Or High Water (2016)
Complex, harsh, contemporary western packs a punch, a brilliantly intense look at brotherhood and what lengths someone would go to...
DVD Review – ‘Julieta’ – Pedro Almódovar
Julieta the film and Julieta the woman are as close as one could get to being a single entity. I...
Film Review – “Silence” – Martin Scorsese
A real hair-shirt of a movie. There are but two images in this movie – landscapes of stupendous exaltation, and...