Thunder Force brings together Melissa McCarthy and Octavia Spencer as superheroes… yeah, exactly. Early on, we learn how, in March 1983, cosmic rays struck the Earth, etc. and affected a ton of people who became …
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Thunder Force brings together Melissa McCarthy and Octavia Spencer as superheroes… yeah, exactly. Early on, we learn how, in March 1983, cosmic rays struck the Earth, etc. and affected a ton of people who became …
Continue readingBFI Flare Festival 2021 by Helen M Jerome: I’ve attended the main BFI London Film Festival in person – and virtually – for a couple of decades, but this is the very first time I’ve …
Continue readingSound of Metal stars Riz Ahmed (above) as Ruben, a former drug addict who’s drummer in a heavy metal band and is starting to go deaf due to the excessive volume he’s had to deal …
Continue readingGodzilla Vs Kong is the fourth film in this series following the awful, rebooted 2014 Godzilla movie, 2017’s reasonable Kong: Skull Island, and 2019’s meh Godzilla: King of the Monsters. On the plus side, at …
Continue readingThe Mauritanian is a true life drama which begins in November 2001, two months after 9/11, where the titular character, Mohamedou Ould Slahi (Tahar Rahim – The Serpent), is arrested, but as we first see …
Continue readingTom and Jerry: The Movie: I grew up with a big love for this cat-and-mouse pairing in cartoons back in the ’80s, some of which were even originally made in 2.55:1 Cinemascope, but badly cropped …
Continue readingAmmonite is set in the 1840s, and centres around standoffish fossil hunter Mary Anning (Kate Winslet – in the forthcoming Mare Of Easttown), who’s taking huge, fossilised rocks off the beach, starting with a titular …
Continue readingSix Minutes To Midnight is set as we head towards the summer of 1939, after which, World War II will be on the way. Thomas Miller (Eddie Izzard – The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance) …
Continue readingSAS: Red Notice begins with a bunch of baddies known as The Black Swans – Grace Lewis (Ruby Rose – Resident Evil: The Final Chapter), brother Oliver (Owain Yeoman) and Dad William (Tom Wilkinson – …
Continue readingSentinelle is so-called because it follows Operation Sentinel, an anti-terrorist unit who patrol sensitive areas of Paris in 2015, and the lead is female, namely, Klara (Olga Kurylenko – Momentum, Quantum of Solace). She struggles …
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