1984, Washington D.C. Diana Prince (Gal Gadot) is working at the Smithsonian museum and leading a quiet life with the occasional outing as Wonder Woman. However when Maxwell Lord (Pedro Pascal) steals a seemingly innocuous artefact from her colleague Barbara Minerva (Kristen Wiig) the entire world is at risk.  2017’s Wonder Woman was a breath … Continue reading Wonder Woman 1984

Tom Dolan (Liam Neeson) is the honest thief of the title. When he meets Annie (Kate Walsh) he decides to give up his old ways and turn himself in. Unfortunately corrupt FBI agents Nivens (Jai Courtney) and Hall (Anthony Ramos) have other ideas for the money Tom wants to return. Liam Neeson’s action career renaissance … Continue reading Honest Thief

The final part of the Godfather trilogy is treated to a new cut by director Francis Ford Coppola. Drastically altering the opening and closing of the film and rebalancing the focus to make this a true epilogue to the first two films. Coppola introduces the film by stating that a coda is a concluding passage … Continue reading Mario Puzo’s The Godfather, Coda: “The Death of Michael Corleone”

When a young boy (Jahzir Bruno) is orphaned he is sent to go and live with his grandmother (Octavia Spencer) and together they encounter a coven of witches led by the evil Grand High Witch (Anne Hathaway).  Roald Dahl’s beloved 1983 novel is treated to its second film adaptation and whilst there are some relatively … Continue reading The Witches (2020)

Ava (Jessica Chastain) is an assassin working for a shadowy business. However when her latest job goes wrong she is forced to fight for her life. It is very obvious what is trying to be achieved with this new action thriller. Over the last few years we have seen Liam Neeson turn into an action … Continue reading Ava

It is 1940 and Herman J. Mankiewicz (Gary Oldman) has been sequestered to a ranch in the Mojave desert by Orson Welles (Tom Burke) for the purpose of writing the script to his debut film. As he writes the screenplay for arguably the greatest film ever made Mank recalls the moments in his life that … Continue reading Mank

Chris (Mel Gibson) is starting to lose faith in humanity as he finds less and less people deserving of the gifts he delivers at Christmas time. Billy (Chance Hurstfield) is a neglected twelve year old whose reaction to receiving a lump of coal from Santa is to hire a hitman (Walton Goggins) to kill the … Continue reading Fatman

Kate Pierce (Darby Camp) is now a teenager who is unhappy about the fact that her mother has started dating a new man and they are spending Christmas in sunny Cancun. Exiled elf Belsnickel (Julian Dennison) aims to use Kate's new found cynicism as a way back to the North Pole to destroy Santa Claus. … Continue reading The Christmas Chronicles: Part II

Teenager Charley Brewster discovers that his new neighbour Jerry Dandridge is actually an ancient vampire who preys on the people of his neighbourhood. Can he enlist the help of the "famous" vampire killer Peter Vincent who stars in the tv/stage show Fright Night to vanquish the town of this evil? As part of the Halloween … Continue reading Fright Night (1985) and Fright Night (2011)