Film review – Mr Jones (2019)
It’s the most unremarkable of names, Jones, yet the journalist of the title is at the centre of an extraordinary...
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Film Review – Parasite (2019)
For all its prestige, winning the Palme D’Or at Cannes is often a mixed blessing that can come close to...
Film Review – Richard Jewell [Second Opinion]
It was an outrage, quite frankly. An innocent man, doing his job and saving countless lives when many more would...
Film Review – Richard Jewell (2020)
Clint Eastwood has made a career – the latter half anyway – directing real-life dramas which radiate urgency and tautness...
Film Review – The Rhythm Section (20200
It's been a long time coming but finally, after a couple of years of strange production problems, the latest film...
Film Review – The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (2020)
For those who have been unfamiliar with the long-gestating passion project of director Terry Gilliam, let’s just say it has...
Film Review – Queen And Slim (2019)
Folk heroes, and the birth of their legends, are a long-standing cinematic favourite. As is the adulation they received in...
Film Review – The Grudge (2020)
Well, here we are again. Another year, another January where many studios and distributors are wrestling with the continued hype...
Film Review – A Hidden Life (2019) [Second Opinion]
In the 32 years between 1973 and 2005, Terence Malick directed only four films, and absolutely nothing in the 20...
Film Review – Bombshell (2019)
It was a watershed moment. An unprecedented, monumental part of modern history that is still to this day sending shockwaves...
Film Review – Bad Boys For Life (2020)
"We have more time behind us than in front of us" utters Marcus Burnett (Martin Lawrence) to his partner Mike...
Film Review – Queen and Slim (2019)
Outlaw couples have always found a home in cinema. From Bonnie and Clyde (dir. Arthur Penn, 1967) to Thelma and...
Film Review – Waves (2019)
It doesn’t happen very often. A film comes along that doesn’t just touch a personal nerve but resonates with just...
Film Review – A Hidden Life (2019)
The mere mention of certain directors – and, indeed, actors – can get those pre-conceptions flowing like you wouldn’t believe....