Michael Myers continues to terrorise the small town of Haddonfield as Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) recuperates in hospital. Directly picking up from where Halloween (2018) left off Halloween Kills feels like a mostly superfluous middle movie in this new trilogy that intends to finish next year with ‘Halloween Ends’. The plot is pretty much … Continue reading Halloween Kills
This animated sequel follows the Addams Family on a road trip across America as Wednesday wonders whether she truly fits in with her family whilst some unscrupulous villains chase them. Following my daughter’s absolute love of the 2019 The Addams Family this was always going to be an opening weekend cinema trip. And whilst she … Continue reading The Addams Family 2
Bond (Daniel Craig) is retired and living in Jamaica until Felix Leiter (Jeffery Wright) convinces him to do one last job. A job that will lead him to a dangerous madman with a desire to eradicate people on a mass scale. Daniel Craig’s fifth and final Bond film is finally here. After several high profile … Continue reading No Time To Die
Young Anthony Soprano (William Ludwig and James Gandolfini) is growing up in Newark, New Jersey and his life is shaped by the uncle he idolises, Dickie Moltisanti (Alessandro Nicola). This is the story of how Dickie struggles to manage his private life and criminal profession whilst influencing the man young Anthony would become. Set roughly … Continue reading The Many Saints Of Newark: A Sopranos Story
In the far future the universe is ruled by powerful houses overseen by an emperor. When the emperor (Jose Ferrer) believes House Atreides Duke Leto (Jurgen Prochnow) is becoming too powerful and well liked he hatches a plot with their sworn enemies House Harkonnen to destroy them. In the resulting chaos Leto’s son Paul (Kyle … Continue reading Dune (1984)
Allison (Aubrey Plaza) is a film maker with writers block. As a way to find a way through it she heads to a rural retreat hosted by Gabe (Christopher Abbott) and his wife Blair (Sarah Gadon). Emotional games between the three ensue. At the halfway point of the film the three characters all take on … Continue reading Black Bear
The Green Knight is a retelling of the 14th century chivalric romance “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight” by an unknown author. Gawain (Dev Patel) is the nephew of King Arthur (Sean Harris) and Queen Guinevere (Kate Dickie). His mother is the witch Morgan La Fay (Sarita Choudhary). He longs to be a Knight of the … Continue reading The Green Knight
Madison Mitchell (Annabelle Wallis) begins to have waking nightmares of horrific and grisly murders. The only thing that can make matters worse is that these are not dreams but visions of actual events as they are happening. Opening with video footage from within a mental hospital in 1993, we bare witness to an experiment gone … Continue reading Malignant
Alex (Malcolm McDowell) and his droogs Pete (Michael Tarn), Georgie (James Marcus) and Dim (Warren Clarke) like nothing less than spending their nights committing some ultra violence. After Alex murders one of their victims he is sentenced to fourteen years in prison so he volunteers for a revolutionary treatment that could see him a free … Continue reading A Clockwork Orange
Ageing former movie star Vic Edwards (Burt Reynolds) is facing into the facts that his glory days are behind him and he is in the twilight of his years. An invite to a small film festival where he will be honoured with a lifetime achievement award allows him to return to the place of his … Continue reading The Last Movie Star
