Film Review – The Angry Birds Movie 2 (2019)
Turning a globally successful game into a movie isn’t necessarily a natural move. Recent years have been littered with films...
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Film Review – Horrible Histories: The Movie – Rotten Romans (2019)
This one might be a case of unreasonably high expectations. The Horrible Histories TV show, loosely inspired by Terry Deary’s...
Film Review – Horrible Histories:The Movie – Rotten Romans (2019)
It was only a matter of time. The Horrible Histories bandwagon started with the books, moved onto TV, won BAFTAs,...
Film Review – The Current War (2019)
Flick a switch and on comes the light, the TV, any electrical item you care to name. We don’t give...
Film Review – The Lion King (2019)
In the jungle - the mightiest and most beautiful of jungles - the lion sleeps tonight. Covered in golden fur,...
Film Review – Midsommar (2019)
Get ready to be triggered by twisted taboos and frolic woozily in the distorted rays of the warped prism that...
Film Review – Stuber (2019)
There is perhaps nothing more frustrating in the film world than a movie that should be so much better than...
Film Review – Annabelle Comes Home (2019)
Dolls are scary, we're told. This intrepid writer doesn't fall into that category (though put a snake in front of...
2019 Edinburgh Film Festival Review – Gwen (2019)
William McGregor's Gwen is a staggeringly impressive debut delivers nerve-shredding Gothic dread centring on a rural Welsh community in the...
Film Review – Midsommar (2019)
Well, sure, that's one way to dump your arsehole of a boyfriend I suppose but would a simple phone call...
Film Review – Spider-Man:Far From Home (2019)
The world has changed. For those who witnessed the traumatic effects of The Snap and the subsequent events, the MCU...
2019 Edinburgh Film Festival Review – The Dead Don’t Die (2019)
Jim Jarmusch successfully took on vampire mythology in Only Lovers Left Alive – a lush and lethargic exploration of the...
Film Review – Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019)
When Marvel announced that Avengers: Endgame was not actually the end to Phase 3, and that Spider-Man: Far From Home...
Film Review – In Fabric (2018)
For anyone who has ever worked a day or two in retail (this ageing reviewer has endured over a decade...