The Death of Stalin (2017)
2017-11-06
“I know the drill: smile, shake hands, try not to say ‘c**t’.” No, not Prince Philip backstage at the Royal VarietyContinue Reading
The House (2017)
2017-07-16
Lyrics from the opening and closing tracks of director Andrew Jay Cohen and his writing partner Brendan O’Brien’s The HouseContinue Reading
My Life As A Courgette (2017)
2017-07-16
An hour-long animation with a PG certificate. I know what you’re thinking: talking fish, feel-good songs and they all livedContinue Reading
Snatched (2017)
2017-05-30
Quite why Goldie Hawn chose to break her fifteen year absence from the big screen with Snatched is beyond me.Continue Reading
Colossal (2017)
2017-05-23
Never has the acronym WTF been more appropriate. To paraphrase a lyric from The Human League’s sole UK number oneContinue Reading
Whisky Galore (2017)
2017-05-07
To think that Peter McDougall, the writer of hard-hitting sectarian dramas such as Just Another Saturday and Just A Boy’sContinue Reading
Their Finest (2017)
2017-04-28
Fictional screenwriter Tom Buckley (Sam Claflin) said of film: it is real life with all the boring bits cut out.Continue Reading
Decline and Fall (BBC TV Mini-Series 2017)
2017-04-22
Decline and Fall is a deliciously quirky series that was like no other I have ever seen. Every eccentric secondContinue Reading
Free Fire (2016)
2017-04-06
An Irishman, a Bostonian and a man with “what the f**k is that accent?” walk into a warehouse to conductContinue Reading
Sing (2016)
2017-04-03
A heartwarming movie about triumph of dreams over adversity…which just so happens to be set in a world of anthropomorphicContinue Reading
Hunt For The Wilderpeople (2016)
2017-03-21
New Zealander Taika Waititi, who ten years after his 2004 Oscar-nominated short Two Cars, One Night co-created the hilarious vampireContinue Reading
The Time of Their Lives (2017)
2017-03-16
The similarities between Pauline Collins’ characters in Shirley Valentine and The Time Of Their Lives are obvious. Both the titularContinue Reading
20th Century Women (2016)
2017-02-25
Forget Kevin, we need to talk about Jamie (Lucas Jade Zumann). Or rather his concerned mum Dorothea (Annette Bening) does.Continue Reading
A Man Called Ove (2015)
2017-02-24
A few days ago during a rally in Florida, President Trump raised a few eyebrows with yet another alternative truth. “You lookContinue Reading