Film Review – SECRET CINEMA: STRANGER THINGS – 3.5 stars
Credit: Secret Cinema – out now Granted, this isn’t traditional cinema, but Secret Cinema’s first foray into live interactive TV is an event worth experiencing. The [...]
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Movie scene selection by Jason Palmer as featured in the North London Local Magazines: Muswell Flyer – Highgate Handbook – Crouch End Connection
Film Review – STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER – 3.5 stars
Credit: Disney – out now After 42 years we are told that this is the end of the road for the space saga that we all know and love. I’m not entirely sure that this will be [...]
Film Review – JUMANJI: THE NEXT LEVEL – 3 stars
Credit: Sony – out now This family adventure does the basics right, adds-in some great new characters and the fun-factor has meticulously been preserved from the last film. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]