What Men Want looks like the laziest possible ‘reworking’ of Mel Gibson’s so-so What Women Want, because all it does it swap genders. At least it credits the original writer, Nancy Myers, but who was crying out for a remake? No-one, and especially in a film with an all-black cast, where black women talk in […]
Black Museum is the fifth episode of Black Mirror Series 4 and is a place for the most bizarre exhibits you’ll ever see, but while it used to be popular, the place is set in the desert, times are lean, and eccentric proprietor Rolo Haynes (Douglas Hodge) is not getting the numbers coming in that […]
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Never Go Back is the second Jack Reacher novel, written by Lee Child, to be adapted for the big screen, and after being less than impressed when I got Jack Reacher round the first time, I went back for more… and I shouldn’t have gone. It does start off well, though, in a scene trailered […]
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Straight Outta Compton is a film I very much wanted to see at the cinema, but before I did, I learned there was a Director’s Cut due out on Blu-ray in due course. For purists, this Blu-ray contains both the Director’s Cut and Theatrical versions. Beginning in 1986, we’re introduced war on drugs in the […]
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