The Disaster Artist (2017)
2017-12-08
At one point in this zany retelling of the worst film in the world, The Room by man of mysteryContinue Reading
Battle of the Sexes (2017)
2017-11-29
“Someday,” says camp fashion designer Ted Tinling (Alan Cumming) to closeted tennis player Billie Jean King (Emma Stone), “we willContinue Reading
Suburbicon (2017)
2017-11-28
It’s Sunday in Suburbicon and we’ve got all the time in the world. So says Margaret (Julianne Moore) to herContinue Reading
Call Me by Your Name (2017)
2017-11-16
Off the back of Moonlight’s (or was it La La Land? Ha ha…..) success at last years Oscars, it’s almostContinue Reading
The Florida Project (2017)
2017-11-16
If single mother on-the-slide Halley (Bria Vinaite) is the Titanic, then her resilient daughter on-the-rise Moonee (Brooklynn Prince) is the bandContinue Reading
Murder on the Orient Express (2017)
2017-11-09
Not being an Agatha Christie aficionado, and having missed previous screen adaptations including the much-lauded 1974 movie starring Albert Finney,Continue Reading
Jigsaw (2017)
2017-11-08
To dismiss the eighth instalment of the Saw movie franchise with a withering “move along, nothing new to see here”Continue Reading
The Death of Stalin (2017)
2017-11-06
“I know the drill: smile, shake hands, try not to say ‘c**t’.” No, not Prince Philip backstage at the Royal VarietyContinue Reading
Breathe (2017)
2017-10-29
Hot on the heels (or rather wheelchair treads) of Eddie Redmayne’s Oscar-winning turn in The Theory Of Everything, based uponContinue Reading
The Snowman (2017)
2017-10-27
Given the critical mauling received by The Snowman, my rhyming synopsis and withering opening was prepared in advance: “Film withContinue Reading
Botoks (2017)
2017-10-27
If the plot of Polish writer and director Patryk Vega’s latest film Botoks is, as the opening credits suggest, “basedContinue Reading
Dunkirk (2017)
2017-08-22
Silence and brevity. Two words never used to describe the Second World War, particularly Operation Dynamo in which over 300,000Continue Reading
War for the Planet of the Apes (2017)
2017-07-25
“This wall is madness. It won’t save him any more than it will save you.” No, not a soundbite fromContinue Reading
The Beguiled (2017)
2017-07-25
“Edwina,” says the eponymous head of the Miss Martha Farnsworth Seminary for Young Ladies (Nicole Kidman) to her obedient teacher (KirstenContinue Reading