In The Line Of Duty is a new cop thriller, which is simply called “Line of Duty” in the US, but…. y’know, the famous BBC series? This movie is certainly a world away from that, and cop Frank Penny (Midway‘s Aaron Eckhart, above) is so old-school that he still watches TV in his kitchen on […]
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The Wolf’s Call had a trailer which made this look like it could be as gripping as 1994’s incredible Crimson Tide, but did it? It centres around submariner Chanteraide (Frank‘s François Civil – above), aka Socks, who has the ‘golden ear’ and can detect an evil submarine at 50 paces… or something like that. Basically, […]
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Star Wars Episode IX: The Rise Of Skywalker is out now and brings not only this new trilogy of films to a close, but also the entire nonet of films (yes, that’s the word for a collection of nine things, and yes, I had to look it up). Okay, I could’ve just said ‘The Entire […]
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Angel Has Fallen is now out on Blu-ray, and I’ve updated my cinema review to include a look at the extras, which is later on in this review. The film follows on from 2013’s Olympus Has Fallen, which I thought was brilliant, and 2016’s London Has Fallen, which I found to be even better, so […]
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The Courier is one of those films that goes straight to home release/streaming, despite having big hitters in the cast like Olga Kurylenko (Quantum of Solace) and Gary Oldman (Darkest Hour), but as well as those two leads, one thing that drew me to this is that it’s an 18-certificate release in a world where […]
BFI 63rd London Film Festival Part 2 Review: Hope you enjoyed reading about the towering masterpieces and headline releases at the 2019 London Film Festival in Part 1 of our customary annual round-up. Now in Part 2 we look at the very best of the rest – some in detail, some in brief – plus […]
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BFI 63rd London Film Festival Part 1: What a cornucopia of delights in this year’s London Film Festival. Rather remarkably there’s been a genuine move to get more female filmmakers than ever before showcased – and into all the awards shortlists too. And there are big name directors including Martin Scorsese, Noah Baumbach and Michael […]
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The Irishman centres around former mob hitman Frank Sheeran (Robert De Niro) as is starts off in a care home, where he’s talking to someone about his life, but who? Even now I’ve watched the film, I’m not entirely sure… He talks about “painting houses” when he’s actually referring to whacking guys, in a film […]
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QT8: The First Eight (aka 21 Years: Quentin Tarantino) takes a look at the first eight films directed by Quentin Tarantino, a man who started off with a perfect trilogy of Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction and Jackie Brown. Reservoir Dogs, despite borrowing the stand-off ending from City On Fire, showed how Tarantino had an incredible […]
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London Korean Film Festival 2019: Epic, intimate, diverse and diverting, this year’s festival has Helen M Jerome in raptures. What an extraordinary year it’s been for Korean film in general, including Bong Joon-ho winning hearts, minds, awards and audiences with his latest global hit, Parasite. But there’s also a much wider, deeper pool of talent […]
