The Queen’s Gambit centres around child chess prodigy Beth and, yes, the main star of this is Anya Taylor-Joy (Split), but in the first episode, she appears only at the start in a brief scene …
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The Queen’s Gambit centres around child chess prodigy Beth and, yes, the main star of this is Anya Taylor-Joy (Split), but in the first episode, she appears only at the start in a brief scene …
Continue readingJoker (Joaquin Phoenix), aka Arthur Fleck, tells himself to ‘put on a happy face’, but as he admits at one point, he’s never been happy for his entire life. But that’s the tears of a …
Continue readingDark Waters stars Mark Ruffalo as corporate defence lawyer Robert Bilott, who takes on an environmental lawsuit against a chemical company which exposes a lengthy history of pollution. It comes from those behind Spotlight, and …
Continue readingThe Kitchen…. Hell’s Kitchen, that is, and the wives of New York gangsters in Hell’s Kitchen, in the 1970s, continue to operate their husbands’ rackets after they’re locked up in prison. As with Can You …
Continue readingVice opens on Sept 11th, 2001, as Dick Cheney (Christian Bale, above) is rushed into the Presidential Emergency Operations Centre, so he’s kept out of harm’s way, and then goes back to the start, in …
Continue readingVice tells the story of Dick Cheney, the most powerful Vice President in history, and how his policies changed the world as we know it. The film comes from writer/director Adam McKay (The Big Short), …
Continue readingWildlife has a second trailer now online and the film is released in the UK on November 9th. Check out the new trailer below: Dom RobinsonReviewer of movies, videogames and music since 1994. Aortic valve …
Continue readingRed Sparrow brings us Jennifer Lawrence as Dominika Egorova, an expert ballet dancer. Have you suffered a trip or fall at work? Could you claim compensation? Call Claims Direct now, since that’s what befalls this …
Continue readingWoman Walks Ahead is one of those period movies that looks like it could’ve been made with an eye towards the Oscars and BAFTAs, but completely missed the mark by being interminably dull. The story …
Continue readingThe Killing of a Sacred Deer is one of those films where I just didn’t *get* the title and the trailer at first, but as soon as I saw it was made by Yorgos Lanthimos, …
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