The Mule (2018)
2019-01-28
The confident, quick, unpretentious filmmaking of Clint Eastwood’s late career can result in anything, and quality is not always guaranteed.Continue Reading
Black ’47 (2018)
2019-01-28
“You can almost understand why there’s still so much hatred towards us.” My mother, an English woman, said this toContinue Reading
Mary Queen of Scots (2018)
2019-01-23
So there we have it: all men are bastards. Or as Queen Elizabeth I (Margot Robbie) more eloquently put it:Continue Reading
Happy New Year, Colin Burstead (2018)
2019-01-09
Free Fire (2016), Ben Wheatley’s previous film, is set during an arms deal that goes south quickly and nastily, devolvingContinue Reading
The Favourite (2018)
2019-01-05
Costume dramas are often dry affairs. All pursed lips and starched collars with the occasional heaving breast to counteract theContinue Reading
Bird Box (2018)
2019-01-05
Bar a few contrived plot twists – two strangers who give birth within minutes of one another; and the ultimateContinue Reading
Welcome to Marwen (2018)
2019-01-05
The Robert Zemeckis project of integrating life and animation into a whole world, a world in which the distinction betweenContinue Reading
First Reformed (2018)
2018-12-31
Gripping, emotional and refreshingly invigorating, First Reformed has been hailed by many critics as a directorial comeback for Paul Schrader.Continue Reading
Black Mirror: Bandersnatch (2018)
2018-12-28
Black Mirror has returned! The series we all know and love for making us question our use of technology andContinue Reading
Mary Poppins Returns (2018)
2018-12-21
Disney’s Mary Poppins Returns takes place twenty years after the first film. The Banks children have grown up and theContinue Reading
Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse
2018-12-19
In the spirit of Chumbawamba, Peter Parker gets knocked down, but he gets up again, and nothing and no oneContinue Reading
Roma (2018)
2018-12-19
Alfonso Cuarón’s last two English-language films, Children of Men (2005) and Gravity (2013), reveal him to be an extraordinarily giftedContinue Reading
Stan & Ollie (2018)
2018-12-19
As a comedy it’s more smile-inducing than belly laugh-provoking. As a drama it’s more restrained than gripping. As a result,Continue Reading
The Old Man & The Gun (2018)
2018-12-11
Based on an article written for The New Yorker in 2003 by David Grann, The Old Man And The GunContinue Reading