Whitney: Can I Be Me is one of those documentaries about an individual where I wasn’t particular enamoured with their output, but I was fascinated with how their rise and fall played out. There’s no …
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Whitney: Can I Be Me is one of those documentaries about an individual where I wasn’t particular enamoured with their output, but I was fascinated with how their rise and fall played out. There’s no …
Continue readingThe Endless Summer is documentary filmmaker Bruce Brown’s movie about the search for the perfect wave, and how the ultimate achievement is to get covered by the wave, as if you’re riding through a tube. …
Continue readingTheir Finest – based on the novel, Their Finest Hour And A Half – in case you wondered why the title didn’t make a huge heap of sense and was wildly ambiguous – centres around …
Continue readingClash has nothing to do with the popular London band during the ’70s and ’80s, but is more a clash of cultures and beliefs, and shows quite a rarity in filmmaking in that the entirety …
Continue readingThe Hunt centres around Lucas (Mads Mikkelsen), a middle-aged man who’s divorced and hardly sees his son and who could really use a break in life, but at least he has some good friends and …
Continue readingAtomic Blonde kicks off with a bang as MI6 agent James Gasciogne (Sam Hargrave) and evil KGB agent Yuri Bakhtin (Jóhannes Jóhannesson) have words, leading to the former coming off worse in shocking circumstances and …
Continue readingThe Handmaiden is a film from Park Chan-wook, whose Oldboy has been on my never-ending to-watch list for some time, but now my Park cherry has been popped with this 1930s-set tale of well-to-do Japanese …
Continue readingPower Rangers or… Go! Go! Power Rangerrrrrrs! Yes, that’s the original theme and it pops up very briefly around 3/4 of the way through this overlong trawl into Rebootsville. In fact, there is something good …
Continue readingDreamscape is an early ’80s movies I thought I didn’t catch first time round, even on VHS – although I realised I did see it on DVD in 2001, where it had a bit of …
Continue readingElectric Dreams proves that whether you’re in the ’80s or the ’10s, computers can frequently be a complete pain in the arse. Described, onscreen by a computer, this movie is described as “a fairytale for …
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