London Korean Film Festival 2022: Now back to being fully and resoundingly in-person, the London Korean Film Festival can build on its reputation as a highlight of the cinematic year. Wonderfully curated to within an …
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London Korean Film Festival 2022: Now back to being fully and resoundingly in-person, the London Korean Film Festival can build on its reputation as a highlight of the cinematic year. Wonderfully curated to within an …
Continue readingBoiling Point takes in a Christmas-time service at a busy restaurant which deals with posh nosh, and on Mad Friday, which is the Friday before the big day. One point of interest for me, is …
Continue readingThe Menu is a new dark comedy set in a restaurant where the Chef, played by Ralph Fiennes (The Dig), is more Gordon Ramsay than Gordon Ramsay! Tyler (Nicholas Hoult – Those Who Wish Me …
Continue reading“‘Like A Virgin’ is all about a girl who digs a guy with a big dick.” Those are the first words you hear in Reservoir Dogs, but isn’t this supposed to be an ultra-violent heist …
Continue readingSpirited is a new Apple TV+ Christmas movie which begins with a Ms. Blansky (Rose Byrne in a cameo) being given short shrift by the Grim Reaper, given her recent behaviour in the neighbourhood. However, …
Continue readingBlack Panther 2: Panth Harder… I mean, Black Panther 2: Wakanda Forever. It’s a bit of a lazy subtitle, since it’s just their occasional chant, but presumably they wanted to put that in to show …
Continue readingBrian and Charles centres around two unlikely leads, as the former (played by co-writer David Earl) creates a robot following a bout of depression during the winter, because he needs a companion. I can understand …
Continue readingWEIRD: The Al Yankovic Story centres around, as you’d expect, ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic, someone I mostly remember from the ’80s, with his song “Eat It“, spoofing Michael Jackson’s Beat It, that had come out not …
Continue readingLiving centres around a man known only by his surname for the majority of the film, Williams, played by Bill Nighy (The World’s End), and set in 1953, where every businessman wears bowler hats, all …
Continue readingCauseway centres around Lynsey (Jennifer Lawrence – Don’t Look Up), a former US soldier in Afghanistan, who’s trying to adjust to life in ‘Civvy Street’, but as a result of an injury suffered in the …
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