Elvis… Elvis Presley, that is… in case you were thinking this was a biopic about Mr Costello, aka Declan McManus. However, this Baz Luhrmann spectacle doesn’t begin with the famous singer, but in 1997, when …
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Elvis… Elvis Presley, that is… in case you were thinking this was a biopic about Mr Costello, aka Declan McManus. However, this Baz Luhrmann spectacle doesn’t begin with the famous singer, but in 1997, when …
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Jurassic World: Dominion brings the second dinosaur trilogy to a finale… until they bring them back yet again, for unfathomable real-world reasons. After all, look at the Star Wars movies – three good films, then …
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George Michael: Freedom Uncut was a few minutes in before I realised it was very familiar… I knew it was a documentary he co-directed, himself, in 2016, year, unaware at the time that it would …
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Top Gun: Maverick is now in cinemas after many false starts, and right off the bat it has the feels, firstly with one thing I spotted, but many won’t. This sequel to 1986’s Top Gun …
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Everything Everywhere All At Once is not really an easy film to describe, but can be if I was to just say “because Multiverse”, and if you’re familiar with this concept. Opening with a scene …
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Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness is the second of ol’ BenCum’s outings in his own movie – even though he seems to have turned up in countless others – but I’ll start with …
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Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore follows on from 2018’s The Crimes of Grindelwald, and it was originally intended that there would be five films, and they’d be released two years apart from the last. …
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The Batman is yet another reboot for one of DC Comics’ major characters, and when director Matt Reeves took it on, I did wonder whether it was necessary, since it’s only 10 years since Christopher …
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Moonfall sees director Roland Emmerich back on the big screen, blowing stuff up, as he has done many times over with the likes of Midway, Independence Day and 2012. This outing first goes back to …
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BFI London Film Festival 2021 Part 2: Here we go. As promised, the follow-up to the first part of our extensive overview of LFF 2021 focuses on some outstanding directorial debuts, documentaries and a couple …
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