Film Review: The Dark Tower (2017)
The Dark Tower is not a movie where you can leave your brain at the door and be bombarded with special effects spectacle. It…
Film Review: Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children (2016)
Young Adult fiction has been mined ruthlessly by Hollywood with varying levels of success. For every Harry Potter, there’s a Percy Jackson. Some are…
Film Review: The Ladykillers (1955)
What’s not to love about an Ealing comedy? There’s great actors, clever storylines and just a little farce thrown in for good measure. The…
Film Review: Eddie the Eagle (2016)
Eddie Edwards (Taron Edgerton) competed in the 1988 winter olympics, the first British ski jumper since the 1920s. Eddie the Eagle is is his…
Film Review: Eye in the Sky (2015)
It’s a rare movie that features the military doing something besides blowing shit up for the sake of it. It’s also rare to see a…
Film Review: The Lady in the Van (2015)
Media has a tendency to be predictable, safe fare. For all your superhero flicks and CGI End Of World scenarios, you always know by…
Film Review: The Winter’s Tale – Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company (2015)
The only criticism one could make of the script for The Winter’s Tale is that in the age of 140 character tweets, it’s a bit on…
Film Review: The Program (2015)
Lance Armstrong confessed to having cheated to win the Tour de France. This is his story. Based upon the book, Seven Deadly Sins: My pursuit of…
Film Review: Man Up (2015)
A cynic might point out that Man Up bears more than a passing resemblance to other British romantic comedies. But this would be to ignore…
Film Review: Learning to Drive (2014)
Learning to Drive, despite marketing to the contrary, is a light drama, a story which explores the lives of Wendy Shields (Patricia Clarkson) as…