Rebecca is a new version of the 1940s Hitchcock movie (okay, technically, the 1938 Daphne du Maurier novel), and I wouldn’t have thought of Ben Wheatley as someone making a remake of such a film, …
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Rebecca is a new version of the 1940s Hitchcock movie (okay, technically, the 1938 Daphne du Maurier novel), and I wouldn’t have thought of Ben Wheatley as someone making a remake of such a film, …
Continue readingMary Queen Of Scots begins with the premise: “Mary Queen Of Scots was born a Catholic. As Protestants fight to control Scotland, the infant Mary is sent to Catholic France. At 15, she marries the …
Continue readingKing Of Thieves is strange in its existence. 2017 brought us The Hatton Garden Job, a movie about the titular bank heist where old men robbed the bank over the Easter weekend of 2015, the …
Continue readingEntebbe is also known as 7 Days In Entebbe, since the film was given two titles due to events spending that amount of time in that Ugandan airport after terrorists hijack the Air France Flight …
Continue readingDarkest Hour gives Gary Oldman a turn as Prime Minister Winston Churchill, after Brian Cox’s Churchill last year, but with Oldman as the man at the time of the Dunkirk evacuations, so incredibly portrayed last …
Continue readingBaby Driver is another of those heist films where the protagonist has to complete just one more job, and he’s out… and you’ll just know that there’s no escape, since why would a bad-guy boss …
Continue readingBaby Driver is another of those heist films where the protagonist has to complete just one more job, and he’s out… and you’ll just know that there’s no escape, since why would a bad-guy boss …
Continue readingBridget Jones’ Baby – let’s get this right from the start. For me, that’s the title, NOT “Bridget Jones’s Baby”. Who puts the extra, redundant ‘s’ in these things? Probably the same people who say …
Continue readingThe Progman centres around investigative Sunday Times sports writer David Walsh (Chris O’Dowd) covering the Tour de France, getting suspicious about Lance Armstrong’s (Ben Foster) team because they’re winning tour after tour, but Armstrong can’t …
Continue readingEverest is the tale of how Ted Moult built up his famous double-glazing company… Well, at least that’s what I was led to believe… (not really). As of 1992, it had become a business for …
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