PLAYING WITH FIRE – 2.5 stars
Credit: Paramount – out now For the most part, this family film plays by the numbers, which will be enough for the kids to enjoy it. But with a pedestrian script and a poor [...]
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FILM OF THE MONTH: THE GENTLEMEN – 4 stars
Credit: Entertainment in Film – out now Writer/Director Guy Richie returns to the genre where he made his name, with this brash, loud and very un-PC action comedy [...]
DVD / Blu-ray Review : ROBOCOP – 5 stars (out 25th Nov)
Credit: Arrow Video Paul Verhoeven’s seminal masterpiece gets a lavish special edition from those clever souls at Arrow Video. We all know the plot, which finds recently [...]
DVD/Blu-ray Review : SPIDER-MAN: FAR FROM HOME – 3.5 stars (out 11th Nov)
Credit: Sony/Marvel The dust has barely settled on the events of Avengers: Endgame, and now we rejoin the MCU for the aftermath through Sony’s Spider-Verse. With everyone [...]
BLU-RAY OF THE MONTH: THE BEFORE TRILOGY CRITERION COLLECTION – 5 stars (out now)
Credit: Sony Pictures/Criterion This gorgeous boxset has been out for a while in the US, but thankfully we’ve now got a release of Richard Linklater’s greatest [...]
DVD Review : YESTERDAY – 3 stars (out 4th Nov)
Credit: Universal Yesterday features the dream team pairing of writer Richard Curtis and Danny Boyle. The plot involves a strange electrical blackout that engulfs the world [...]
Film Review – DRIVEN – 3.5 stars (out 8th Nov)
Credit: Vertigo Releasing The iconic, world famous car that featured in the Back to the Future movies was created by John DeLorean. This infamous figure finally gets a film [...]
Film Review – THE REPORT – 4 stars (out 15th Nov)
Credit: Curzon Adam Driver makes a strong case for an Oscar nomination in this hard-hitting real-life drama. He plays Daniel Jones, a driven Senate staff member, who is [...]
Film Review – BRITTANY RUNS A MARATHON – 3 stars (out now)
Credit: Republic Film Jillian Bell stars as Brittany, a 30-something party girl who doesn’t take care of herself. When she grows disillusioned by her predicament, she [...]
Film Review – THE IRISHMAN – 4 stars (out 8th Nov)
Credit: Netflix This is the big one. Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Joe Pesci & Martin Scorsese re-team up for this eagerly anticipated crime-drama that will debut on Netflix [...]