Whitney comes around one year after 2017’s Whitney: Can I Be Me? which was a fascinating documentary about the lady, but even though I didn’t particularly care for her music, I’m always fascinated in a documentary to see what makes people in the public eye tick. The opening with Whitney Houston singing How Will I […]
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Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald is out now, following on from 2016’s Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them, and despite having two years to get round to watching any of the Harry Potter movies for the first time, since then, I still haven’t seen a single one. D’oh. At the time of posting […]
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Siberia is 105 minutes long which, on average, makes for the best length for a movie – not too short, and not way too long like most Hollywood fare of late, but can it make for the best film when this is one in which Hollywood heavyweight Keanu Reeves (John Wick) isn’t taking it to […]
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Leave No Trace centres around Will (Ben Foster) and his teenage daughter, Tom (Thomasin Harcourt McKenzie), who have been living off the grid in a huge park where they largely keep out of the way of society, although sometimes they do hide in plain sight, such as a trip on the Portland tram, or going […]
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They Shall Not Grow Old is a new film commissioned for the 100th anniversary of the First World War, known at the time as The Great War, with the plan to take original footage from the war and the words of the soldiers from back then and create a narrative based around it. Of course, […]
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Sicario 2: Soldado was a film for which I didn’t even know was planned, until the first teaser came out, so I was certainly looking forward to this, as the first movie was great. Plus, given the weather, I was tempted to ask the cinema to turn off the air-conditioning, so it would actually FEEL […]
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They Live Special Edition is one of four John Carpenterclassics being re-released in late 2018, on Blu-ray, 4K Blu-ray and DVD, and this is the second of the four I haven’t seen before. The late, great Rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrowdy Roddy Piper takes the lead as day-labourer John Nada, who susses out that there’s a lot of weird […]
Bohemian Rhapsody – Mamma Mia! Mamma Mia? NO! Bohemian Rhapsody! This new film brings us Queen from their beginning in 1970, through the song on which the film’s title is derived (which was mostly slammed by critics at the time), and up to and including their 1985 Live Aid concert. If you’re looking for a […]
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King of Crime (aka Milk and Honey) is a film I was looking forward to once I heard it starred The Bill stalwart, Mark Wingett (above), aka Jim Carver. Alas, no sooner had it begun than there were problems Dom RobinsonReviewer of movies, videogames and music since 1994. Aortic valve operation survivor from the same […]
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The Fog Special Edition is one of four John Carpenter classics being re-released in late 2018, on Blu-ray, 4K Blu-ray and DVD, and this is one of the four I haven’t seen before. Beginning with a creepy old sea captain (John Houseman) telling a creepy story just before midnight, about a mysterious fog which caused […]
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