Orson Welles was a prodigious talent who will go down as one of the greatest film makers who ever lived. But also one whose talent was wasted due to his exile from Hollywood. This documentary tries to cover Welles’ attempts to make what would be his final film, ‘The Other Side Of The Wind’ between … Continue reading They’ll Love Me When I’m Dead
Kayla (Chloe Grace Moretz) is a grifter who has just tricked her way into a prestigious job at the Royal Gate Hotel. Can she successfully oversee an extravagant wedding at the hotel or will some cat and mouse hi-jinx scupper everything? Tom & Jerry is a bit of an odd hybrid of a movie in … Continue reading Tom & Jerry: The Movie (2021)
In 2010, Mari Gilbert’s (Amy Ryan) daughter does missing in Long Island, New York. Frustrated by the police inaction she starts her own investigation into the disappearance that results in the police discovering more dead women buried in the region. Lost Girls is based on the novel Lost Girls: An Unsolved American Mystery by Robert … Continue reading Lost Girls
Private Investigator Carson Phillips (John Travolta) is hired by a damsel in distress for a job back in his old stomping ground of Galveston, Texas. A place he left as a disgraced football star under a betting scandal. There he will come into contact with his old flame Jayne (Famke Jansen) and old friends such … Continue reading Eye For An Eye
My original review of 2017's Justice League was not kind. I saw the film twice at the cinema and once on home media and each time my opinion of the film got worse. It was half baked with wasted characters, underwritten lead heroes and villains, had poor CGI and massive tonal issues. These issues in … Continue reading Zack Snyder’s Justice League
Recently widowed grandpa Ed (Robert DeNiro) has to move in with his daughter Sally (Uma Thurman) when he accidentally robs the local supermarket because he can not get to grips with self service check outs. Grandson Peter (Oakes Fegley) is moved from his beloved room to the attic to make space for him and he … Continue reading The War With Grandpa
In 2017, Alex Honnold attempts to become the first person to free solo El Capitan in Yosemite National Park. A 3000 foot granite rock face climbed with no ropes or safety devices. Free Solo is a great film. I can not believe it took me three years to get around to watching this, but thank … Continue reading Free Solo
This documentary focuses on Fox Rich's campaign to get her husband released from prison over the course of twenty years whilst raising her six children. Rob Rich was sentenced to sixty years in prison without the possibility of parole after he robbed a bank with Fox in 1997. Fox herself spent three and a half … Continue reading Time
Charlotte Willmore (Allison Williams) was a cello prodigy at the prestigious Bachoff Academy until her mother was taken ill and she had to return home to care for her. A decade later she is invited by Anton (Steven Weber), the head of the Academy to choose their next prospective student at a competition in Shanghai. … Continue reading The Perfection
Pixie (Olivia Cooke) has a plan to avenge her mother’s death and escape her gangster family by leaving West Ireland for San Francisco. Of course it all goes wrong and she ends up improvising with Frank (Ben Hardy) and Harland (Daryl McCormick) tagging along. Halfway through watching Pixie it struck me that this film reminded … Continue reading Pixie
