Weird Science is one of my all-time favourite ’80s comedies, and one of many times when the late-great writer/direcor John Hughes hit all the right notes, even though I didn’t realised until now that this was based on a comic book (like every other film made today!), most likely because the comic book’s writers were […]
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Sixteen Candles is one of those John Hughes ’80s comedies I saw at the time, but haven’t seen in a long time, and I never knew there was an extended version before this disc was announced for release. It’s Samantha’s (Molly Ringwald) 16th birthday, and everyone’s forgotten. Or have they? Maybe. Either way, it’s also […]
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The Shape Of Water centres around a weird water-dwelling creature which, on first encounter, almost thuds through the container it’s within, giving every unspecting Tom, Dick or Harriet a fright. Elisa Esposito (Sally Hawkins) and Zelda D Fuller (Octavia Spencer) are the facility’s resident cleaners, the former being a mute and the most curious about […]
Posted in Cinema films, Movies, Reviews Tags: Alexandre Desplat, Allegra Fulton, Clyde Whitham, Dan Lett, David Hewlett, Doug Jones, Dru Viergever, Guillermo del Toro, J Miles Dale, Jayden Greig, John Kapelos, Lauren Lee Smith, Madison Ferguson, Martin Roach, Marvin Kaye, Michael Shannon, Michael Stuhlbarg, Morgan Kelly, Nick Searcy, Nigel Bennett, Octavia Spencer, Richard Jenkins, Sally Hawkins, Stewart Arnott, The Shape of Water, Vanessa Taylor, Wendy Lyon No Comments »The Shape of Water comes from the mind of director Guillermo del Toro, giving us an other-worldly fairy tale, set against the backdrop of Cold War era America circa 1963. And now, there’s a Red Band Trailer… which usually means it’s NSFW, aka Not Safe For Work. In the hidden high-security government laboratory where she […]
The Shape of Water comes from the mind of director Guillermo del Toro, giving us an other-worldly fairy tale, set against the backdrop of Cold War era America circa 1963. In the hidden high-security government laboratory where she works, lonely Elisa (Sally Hawkins) is trapped in a life of silence and isolation. Her life is […]
