TRON: Ares opens, not with a narration from the ever-missing Flynn (Jeff Bridges – Hell Or High Water), but an intro in the form of a clip from a 1982 TV interview which didn’t happen …
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TRON: Ares opens, not with a narration from the ever-missing Flynn (Jeff Bridges – Hell Or High Water), but an intro in the form of a clip from a 1982 TV interview which didn’t happen …
Continue readingThe Gorge is a huge, gaping chasm in the middle of somewhere classified, that even those who have to work there don’t know where they are. Lithuanian-born Drasa (Anya Taylor-Joy – Furiosa: A Mad Max …
Continue readingQueer sees Daniel Craig leaving James Bond behind, and taking a trip to Mexico to make like The Flintstones and have a gay old time! This William S Burroughs adaptation opens with an unexpectedly welcome …
Continue readingChallengers brings us interracial mixed-race couples, just like every single advert on TV, these days – even though in reality, they only make up around 13% of actual couples. To the plot, and the film …
Continue readingShogun is a new version of the 1975 James Clavell novel, and I do remember seeing some of the 1980 TV adaptation with Richard Chamberlain, but then I was far too young to appreciate a …
Continue readingTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem sees the ‘heroes in a half-shell’ returning to the big screen, even though they haven’t been a draw to anyone for quite some time. However, upon seeing the trailer, …
Continue readingEmpire of Light takes us back to 1980, and to the Empire Cinema in Margate (normally the Dreamland Margate cinema), which we first see in 1980, the year of which I could tell because they’re …
Continue readingMank…Herman J Mankiewicz, played by Gary Oldman, is a man whose scriptwriting work often went uncredited, but back in 1940, at the age of just 24, Orson Welles was given a contract by then-struggling RKO …
Continue readingBird Box places us in a world which is going to hell in a handcart for absoltutely seemingly no reason whatsoever, and it has led to everyone being in crisis mode, similar to A Quiet …
Continue readingCrocodile is the third episode of Black Mirror Series 4 and, initially, centres on Mia (Andrea Riseborough) and Rob’s (Andrew Gower) car accident, which leads to a situation they’d rather forget, and which they’d rather …
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