The Revenant refers to a person who has returned, and supposedly from the dead. In this case, it’s Hugh Glass (no, not Hugh Jass), portrayed by Leonardo DiCaprio. As we’re introduced to this frontiersman in …
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The Revenant refers to a person who has returned, and supposedly from the dead. In this case, it’s Hugh Glass (no, not Hugh Jass), portrayed by Leonardo DiCaprio. As we’re introduced to this frontiersman in …
Continue readingThe X-Files is returning to TV screens soon, with David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson as Fox Mulder and Dana Scully, and, for all its success, I never actually got into it back in the day. …
Continue readingThis weekend there are six new films out for you to choose from: gritty early 19th Century true-life drama in The Revenant, a return of a boxing legend in Creed, BAFTA-nominated drama in Room, fighting …
Continue readingThe Witch is set in New England, 1630, where William (Ralph Ineson – Prey, The Office, and a million voiceovers) and Katherine (Kate Dickie – Prometheus, Filth) lead a devout Christian life, homesteading on the …
Continue readingMoney Monster is the title of the financial network TV show hosted by Lee Gates (George Clooney), a bombastic TV personality whose made the programme incredibly popular. It’s made him the money Wizard of Wall …
Continue readingThe Finest Hours is a new Disney drama set in February 1952, when one of the worst storms to ever hit the East Coast struck New England, damaging an oil tanker off the coast of …
Continue readingHail Caesar! is the forthcoming movie from the Coen Brothers, and the billing has a simple premise of: A Hollywood fixer in the 1950s works to keep the studio’s stars in line. That fixer is …
Continue readingInsurgent begins with the kids from Fame – all running and smiling after escaping the evil Jeanine (Kate Winslet) – going to Amity to hide out for a while, but all is not plain sailing, …
Continue readingFifty Shades Of Grey is the film I never saw at the cinema, based on the book I never read. But then I don’t read books, anyway. And I didn’t go to see it at …
Continue readingLove 3D begins with the onscreen announcements: “The theater management warns you” and then the screen changes to “Put your glasses on. ‘Love’ will start in a few seconds”. But then surely if you’re watching …
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