Brawl in Cell Block 99 is a violent prison drama starting Vince Vaughn and… hang on… Vince Vaughn?! If you’d asked me who’s the ‘man least likely to’ star as a shaven-headed (possibly neo-Nazi, but …
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Brawl in Cell Block 99 is a violent prison drama starting Vince Vaughn and… hang on… Vince Vaughn?! If you’d asked me who’s the ‘man least likely to’ star as a shaven-headed (possibly neo-Nazi, but …
Continue readingBFI 61st London Film Festival Part 3 brings us all the documentaries, plus the 2017 DVDfever Film Awards! No matter the quantity and quality of high-profile feature films spread across the London Film Festival, you …
Continue readingBFI 61st London Film Festival Part 2: What a time for international filmmaking – and particularly European movies from our near neighbours, Spain, Italy and France, plus Hungary, Austria and Poland. Vive la difference! So …
Continue readingBFI 61st London Film Festival Part 1: Let me take you by the hand and lead you towards the films that are streets ahead of the rest, the ones you’ll need to track down, and …
Continue readingRough Night, when I saw the Red Band (i.e. sweary) Trailer (at the bottom of this review), looked like a series of rough ideas that should’ve been thrown in the toilet rather than turned into …
Continue readingDunkirk tells the story of the evacuation of Dunkirk, which was code-named Operation Dynamo – although that wasn’t named in this film, and showed the extrication of our soldiers from Dunkirk’s beaches and harbour in …
Continue readingBright is a new Netflix movie set in an alternate present. Have you had a trip or fall at work? Cop Daryl Ward (Will Smith) has, and it’s the fault of an orc, so it’s …
Continue readingAva (Noée Abita) is a girl of 13 years of age, who has just learned that her sight is failing. Sure, this happens to all of us, but not at that age, and it’s happening …
Continue readingStar Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi treads a very well-worn path: The First Order want to obliterate the Resistance out of existence, and the Resistance don’t really want that, and have to fight back. …
Continue readingCarrie is out now in a special Limited Edition Blu-ray release, and opens with a particular scene in a girl’s locker room which you definitely wouldn’t see today (which wasn’t in that form for the …
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