Film Review: Instant Family (2018)
Writer-director Sean Anders may have been responsible for the visionary Hot Tub Time Machine, but don’t let that taint your anticipation of his newest…
Film Review: Matangi/Maya/M.I.A. (2018)
‘It’s not the film that I would have made.’ So says Matangi Arulpragasam, known on-stage as M.I.A., after initially watching her friend (or maybe…
Film Review: Pick of the Litter (2018)
Having grown up with two black Labradors, I’ve always been curious as to how a dog takes up a career as a seeing-eye dog….
Review: NT Live: The Madness of George III (2018)
Most familiar to Sherlock fans as Mycroft Holmes, Sherlock’s chiding elder brother, Mark Gatiss has until now been known more as a character actor…
Film Review: Puzzle (2018)
If ever there was to be an award for clearest metaphor, Marc Turtletaub (Little Miss Sunshine) would win it hands down for Puzzle — a…
Film Review: Robin Hood (2018)
As Otto Bathurst‘s Robin Hood begins, Friar Tuck (Tim Minchin) implores us to forget everything we think we know about Robin Hood. It’s an ambitious thought. You…
Film Review: Lean on Pete (2017)
Yorkshireman Andrew Haigh wouldn’t be the obvious person to adapt a novel like Lean on Pete by Willy Vlautin, portraying the trials of a…
Film Review: Drug Stories (2018)
Everyone at one stage or another has been told by someone not to get into narcotics. The effort behind that dissuasion can vary depending…
Film Review: Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018)
Watching with neck craned from the second row, it may be tempting to blame a middling response to Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald…
Film Review: Night School (2018)
Group projects at school were invariably a mess, and the cohort of six writers responsible for the latest Kevin Hart vehicle, Night School, don’t…