REVIEW: Bombshell (2020)
Following in the footsteps of Adam McKay’s mixed bag efforts into the realms of political takedown cinema, Jay Roach steps up to the plate. As a filmmaker with similarly comedic roots – Roach helmed all 3 Austin Powers films as well as Meet the Parents…
REVIEW: The Wave (2019)
Gille Klabin’s The Wave. Where to begin? Justin Long plays Frank, an introverted lawyer playing by a set of rules he perceives to be a means to survive, rather than a means to enjoy life. With a long awaited promotion seemingly about to come his…
REVIEW: Weathering With You (2020)
Like the legendary Hayao Miyazaki and the films of Studio Ghibli, director Makoto Shinkai now generates a huge amount of interest for his projects based on just his name alone. His previous film, Your Name became the highest-grossing anime film of all time taking a…
REVIEW: Seberg (2020)
The story of Jean Seberg is perhaps one of Hollywood’s most tragic, and not often told stories. The American born actress who became the face of French New Wave cinema thanks to her role in Jean-Luc Godard’s 1960 film Breathless, later became one of the…
REVIEW: Bad Boys For Life (2020)
I am an enormous fan of the first Bad Boys (1995) movie. The action, comedy and kinetic vibrancy of the movie were so frenetically executed, when watching as a youngster I just couldn’t get enough and as an adult, through nostalgic eyes, I love it…
REVIEW: Waves (2020)
In Waves, a family unit is its own delicate ecosystem, and any imbalance can have massive ripple effects. Tyler (Kelvin Harrison Jr in his second and more explosive star-making lead role this year) is a high school wrestler with a lot on his plate. His…
REVIEW: The Courier (2020)
This 2019 action film is directed by Zackary Adler and stars Olga Kurylenko, Gary Oldman, Amit Shah, Alicia Agneson, Greg Orvis and Dermot Mulroney. When a key witness, Nick Murch (Shah), is targeted for assassination by crime boss Ezekiel Mannings (Oldman) to spare him being…
REVIEW: The Gentlemen (2020)
Setting aside the pleasantries of the Disney world for a street more familiar, Guy Ritchie returns to his lock stocked roots. The Gentlemen is Ritchie’s loud and proud venture back into cockney crime capers. Alongside Ritchie, he brings with him an interesting casting sheet sure…
REVIEW: Little Women (2019)
Whenever there’s a new adaptation of a classic novel, the grumblings are always the same. Do we really need another version of this? Hasn’t the story been told to exhaustion already? But beloved novels like Little Women occupy a special place in the hearts of…
REVIEW: 1917 (2019)
World War One is not as well-known or depicted widely in popular culture in the US as much as the UK. Up until the No Man’s Land scene in Wonder Woman (2017), it was mainly World War Two that has been given the big-budget film…
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