The Midnight Sky (2020)
2021-01-06
George Clooney stars and directs in this retelling of Mark L. Smith’s science fiction novel ‘Good Morning, Midnight’. The post-apocalypticContinue Reading
The Lighthouse (2019)
2020-02-01
Following on from the critical success of The Witch (2015), director Robert Eggers has already cemented himself as director worthContinue Reading
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019)
2019-12-22
JJ Abrams returns with Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. In true finale fashion, this film sees Finn and ReyContinue Reading
I Lost My Body (2019)
2019-12-17
Through train rails and tin cans, snowflakes and frozen lakes, we follow a severed hand on its quest to findContinue Reading
Yesterday (2019)
2019-06-23
The idea of a world without The Beatles is a concept of something that might come from a Twilight ZoneContinue Reading
Dumbo (2019)
2019-04-03
Magic dust is thin on the ground in Tim Burton’s liberal but low-key take on Walt Disney’s 1941 classic DumboContinue Reading
Mary Poppins Returns (2018)
2018-12-21
Disney’s Mary Poppins Returns takes place twenty years after the first film. The Banks children have grown up and theContinue Reading
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018)
2018-11-16
With sequels and prequels, of which Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald is both, being the second of five prequelsContinue Reading
Anna and the Apocalypse (2018)
2018-11-04
In the introduction to an exclusive screening of Anna And The Apocalypse at the Hippodrome in Bo’ness, director John McPhailContinue Reading
Wildling (2018)
2018-04-24
I wanna tell you a story. No, not the title of Max Bygrave’s autobiography, but the opening to Fritz Böhm’s directorialContinue Reading
The Shape of Water (2018)
2018-02-16
“Shit cleaner” and “piss wiper” Elisa Esposito (Sally Hawkins) is speechless. Not just because she lost her voice box atContinue Reading
Winchester (2018)
2018-02-08
This is Winchester with a silent h. For the plot is as creaky as the floorboards. The set and cinematographyContinue Reading
Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)
2018-01-09
As the disappointed bishop said to the under-performing actress: “You didn’t blow me away.” The ending, in particular, as flatContinue Reading
A Ghost Story (2017)
2017-12-20
A Ghost Story was a very risky concept to imagine. David Lowery must have had nightmares about pitching his passion projectContinue Reading