In 1998 The Big Lebowski introduced us to the extravagant Jesus Quintana played by John Turturro, a rival bowler clad in purple who licked his bowling ball and was a sex offender. In 2019 Turturro created a spin off film starring Quintana and most peculiarly it is also a remake of a controversial 1974 film called … Continue reading The Jesus Rolls
In 2019, 31 years after World War 3 destroyed Tokyo it has been rebuilt and renamed Neo Tokyo. Rival biker gangs fight in the streets whilst widespread protests against the government take place. When a young teenage biker gang led by Kaneda attacks a rival gang they find themselves in the destroyed section of Tokyo … Continue reading Akira
Maud (Morfydd Clark) is a nurse who has recently discovered God and moved into private palliative care. When she is assigned to the care of ex dancer Amanda (Jennifer Ehle) who has stage IV lymphoma cancer she starts to believe it is her calling to save her patients soul. Saint Maud is a difficult film … Continue reading Saint Maud
Ivan (voiced by Sam Rockwell) is a gorilla who is the star attraction at a failing circus in a shopping mall. When circus impresario Mack (Bryan Cranston) introduces a new act in an effort to save the circus it sets off a chain of events that will change Ivan’s life forever. The One and Only … Continue reading The One And Only Ivan
When Davie (Conor Berie) breaks his leg playing football he rethinks his chances of being a professional footballer and decides to become a music promoter. With his friends Scot (Sean Connor) and John (Grant Robert Keelan) providing support he enters the murky underworld of Dundee to finance his dreams. Schemers is based on the real … Continue reading Schemers
Enola Holmes (Millie Bobby Brown) is the teenage sister of Sherlock (Henry Cavill) and Mycroft Holmes (Sam Claflin). When her mother Eudoria (Helena Bonham Carter) goes missing she has to use her sleuthing skills to outwit her brothers in an attempt to find her and in doing so finds herself embroiled in a plot surrounding … Continue reading Enola Holmes
It has been twenty-nine years since Bill (Alex Winter) and Ted’s (Keanu Reeves) bogus journey and unfortunately they still have not written the song to unite the world. Instead they are playing gigs at open mic nights and family weddings. But when Rufus’ (George Carlin) daughter Kelly (Kristen Schaal) arrives from the future they embark … Continue reading Bill & Ted Face The Music
Lucy (Geraldine Viswanathan) falls upon the idea of creating a gallery where people can leave mementos of past relationships following the crushing collapse of her first grown up love affair. It is worth opening right from the beginning that this is a joyous, funny and uplifting romantic comedy and in the main this seems to … Continue reading The Broken Hearts Gallery
A day in the life of Leo (Javier Bardem) and his daughter, Molly (Elle Fanning) as she tries to shepherd her ailing father around Brooklyn to visit the dentist and the optician. Leo is suffering from dementia and as he flits in and out of the real world we see what are memories or alternate … Continue reading The Roads Not Taken
A young Chinese woman disguises herself as a man in order to save her father from being drafted into the imperial army. Disney’s latest live action remake is the latest film to fall foul of the coronavirus pandemic. Originally slated to be released earlier in the year just before world cinemas were closed it had … Continue reading Mulan (2020)
