A 90-year-old horticulturist, down on his luck takes a job as a Mexican cartel drug mule. The Mule is a film with excellent credentials. Clint Eastwood was thought to have retired as far as the dual role of actor/director goes with 2008’s excellent Gran Torino. Since then he has only appeared as an actor in … Continue reading The Mule
In 1970’s Harlem, two young lovers lives are thrown into turmoil when Fonny (Stephan James) is accused of rape. Tish (KiKi Lane) and her family try to prove his innocence whilst he awaits trial and she is pregnant with his child. Barry Jenkins follow up to his Best Picture winning Moonlight is another stunningly intimate film. … Continue reading If Beale Street Could Talk
A group of six strangers take up the invitation of an escape room with the promise of $10,000 to anyone who can succeed. Up until the last five minutes of this film my thoughts were that it was a relatively interesting, if hugely generic “horror” film. The word horror in inverted commas because it’s not … Continue reading Escape Room
Pete (Mark Wahlberg) and Ellie (Rose Byrne) are a couple who decide to foster three children in the hope of adopting. Instant Family is the Hollywood sanitised version of this process that will make you laugh and cry in equal measure whilst delivering the message that foster parents can make a huge difference to children’s … Continue reading Instant Family
Lee Israel (Melissa McCarthy), an author whose career is in decline is struggling to make ends meet. Given her experience is in biographies and her talent is disappearing into the persona of her subjects she stumbles upon a money making idea. Can she type letters in the prose of famous literary figures and sell them … Continue reading Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Charting the years between 1561 and 1567 between Mary's return to Scotland (she had lived in France for most of her life) and her imprisonment Mary Queen of Scots has a lot to cover. Returning from France already a widow of one marriage, Mary laid claim to both Scotland and England's thrones as a Stewart. … Continue reading Mary Queen of Scots
Following Split, M. Night Shyamalan’s stealth sequel to Unbreakable, Glass is the final piece to his trilogy of superhero’s in the real world. When David Dunn (Bruce Willis) and Kevin Wendell Crumb (James McAvoy) are captured and placed in a mental hospital with Elijah Price (Samuel L. Jackson) it falls to Dr. Ellie Staple (Sarah … Continue reading Glass
Dick Cheney (Christian Bale) went from being kicked out of Yale for partying too hard to being arguably the most powerful man in the world as George W. Bush’s (Sam Rockwell) Vice President. Vice charts this path and attempts to show us how he got there and the impact we all still feel today as … Continue reading Vice
Phillip (Bryan Cranston) is a paraplegic in need of a new caregiver. Dell (Kevin Hart) is an ex-convict on parole who needs to prove he is looking for a job to stay out of prison. Due to an incredibly unbelievable job interview mix up Dell finds himself with the well paid job as Phillip’s live … Continue reading The Upside
In 1988 Gary Hart (Hugh Jackman) was the front runner in the Presidential campaign. A lot can happen in politics in the space of three weeks though when he is embroiled in a sexual scandal. Based on a true story, Jason Reitman’s latest film seems to pose two almost contradictory moral questions but with both … Continue reading The Front Runner
