BFI Flare Festival 2025: Every time the BFI Flare Festival comes around, it feels bigger and bolder, and plunges into all sorts of genres with just their LGBTQIA+ flavour linking them. This year’s schedule was …
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BFI Flare Festival 2025: Every time the BFI Flare Festival comes around, it feels bigger and bolder, and plunges into all sorts of genres with just their LGBTQIA+ flavour linking them. This year’s schedule was …
Continue readingDen of Thieves 2: Pantera is the long-awaited follow-up to 2018’s Den of Thieves, an absolutely storming cop thriller with Gerard Butler (Plane) in one of his finest roles to date. Hence, I was so …
Continue readingThe Story And The Engine is the fifth episode of Season 2… or, perhaps Series 15 or Series 45. Oh, where to begin with this one? Doctor Who is massively tanking in the ratings, and …
Continue readingFinal Destination: Bloodlines got an early screening at my local Cineworld for those who went to watch a double-bill with the original 2000 film, simply titled, Final Destination, approximately a week before the official release. …
Continue readingNonnas is a gentle comedy/drama, based upon the life story of Jody Scaravella, but here with Vince Vaughn as the similarly-named Joe Scaravella. From being a young kid, he’s always been obsessed with the food …
Continue readingThe Trial is a new one-off drama for Channel 5, which opens with the explanatory text:“When a minor is arrested for a serious crime, parents can be charged as accessories, if unable to show a …
Continue readingThunderbolts* opens with a decent enough scene with Yelena Belova (Florence Pugh – We Live In Time), since after the actress physically jumped off the Merdeka 118 building in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia – and on …
Continue readingAnother Simple Favor (aka Another Simple Favour, in any territory that can spell) comes seven years after A Simple Favour, and after all this time, I’m not sure who was clamouring for a sequel, but …
Continue readingMalpractice Series 2 opens with the harrassed Dr James Ford (Tom Hughes – The Game (2015)) on-call, but is being rushed into doing a mental health assessment on one patient where the police have had …
Continue readingFake is another import from Down Under, where women glow and men plunder… As magazine writer Birdie Bell (Asher Keddie – The Lost Flowers Of Alice Hart) heads to her first date in ages, the …
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