Film Review: Instant Family (2018)
Written by Angus Tonkin Originally published 9 January 2019 Writer-director Sean Anders may have been responsible for the visionary Hot Tub Time Machine, but…
Film Review: Matangi/Maya/M.I.A. (2018)
Written by Angus Tonkin Originally published 9 January 2019 ‘It’s not the film that I would have made.’ So says Matangi Arulpragasam, known on-stage…
Film Review: Pick of the Litter (2018)
Written by Angus Tonkin Originally published 8 January 2019 Having grown up with two black Labradors, I’ve always been curious as to how a…
Review: NT Live: The Madness of George III (2018)
Written by Angus Tonkin Originally published 10 December 2018 Most familiar to Sherlock fans as Mycroft Holmes, Sherlock’s chiding elder brother, Mark Gatiss has…
Film Review: Puzzle (2018)
Written by Angus Tonkin Originally published 27 November 2018 If ever there was to be an award for clearest metaphor, Marc Turtletaub (Little Miss Sunshine)…
Film Review: Robin Hood (2018)
Written by Angus Tonkin Originally published 26 November 2018 As Otto Bathurst‘s Robin Hood begins, Friar Tuck (Tim Minchin) implores us to forget everything we think we…
Film Review: Lean on Pete (2017)
Written by Angus Tonkin Originally published 26 November 2018 Yorkshireman Andrew Haigh wouldn’t be the obvious person to adapt a novel like Lean on…
Film Review: Drug Stories (2018)
Written by Angus Tonkin Originally published 26 November 2018 Everyone at one stage or another has been told by someone not to get into…
Film Review: Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018)
Written by Angus Tonkin Originally published 14 November 2018 Watching with neck craned from the second row, it may be tempting to blame a…
Film Review: Night School (2018)
Written by Angus Tonkin Originally published 27 September 2018 Group projects at school were invariably a mess, and the cohort of six writers responsible…