Film Review – Avengers: Endgame (Spoiler-Free)
This is one of the most difficult reviews that I’ve had to write, for two reasons. Firstly, this is a...
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Film Review – Bel Canto (2018)
Timing is everything. For a movie, it can be the difference between stellar success and crushing failure and for Bel...
Film Review – Red Joan (2018)
The strange thing about life, real life lived by actual people, is that it tends to unfold in a way...
Film Review – Greta (2019)
When Isabelle Huppert presented the 2017 BAFTA for Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema to Curzon, she joked about the inordinate...
Film Review – Steel Country (2018)
Andrew Scott is having a moment – and it’s not the first time. His gloriously mercurial Moriarty in Sherlock garnered...
Film Review – Puppet Master: Littlest Reich (2018)
Recently divorced comic nerd Edgar attends a sinister convention with his new love interest Ashley in order to sell a potentially valuable...
Film Review – At Eternity’s Gate
At Eternity's Gate is the brilliant new film by Julian Schnabel, looking at the final years of artist Vincent Van...
Film Review – Little (2019)
Body swap comedies are nothing new, but they have a decent enough track record when it comes to delivering fun....
Film Review – Mid90’s (2018)
It is with pleasure to state that Jonah Hill’s directorial debut is a success. Good old fashioned American independent stylised...
Film Review – Missing Link (2019)
Do you remember the scene in Planes, Trains and Automobiles when, after spending all night on a flight together and...
Film Review – Pet Sematary (2019)
A rule of thumb, where Stephen King is concerned, seems to be that brevity is the author’s friend. When the...
Film Review – Shazam! (2019)
“Look Up In the Sky - it’s a bird? It’s a plane? It’s… who? What the hell is a Shazam,...
Film Review – The Sisters Brothers (2018)
It’s been a long time coming to the UK. Director Jacques Audiard’s first film in the English language, The Sisters...
Film Review – Dumbo (2019)
Disney’s 1941 animation Dumbo is a lot of things: a psychedelic trauma of underage drunkenness and pink dancing elephants; an...