Grace (Mackenzie Davis) is sent to the past to protect Dani (Natalia Reyes) from a new line of terminators called a Rev-9 and finds help from some familiar faces. Dark Fate is a return to form for the Terminator franchise and this in part feels due to the return of two of the key creative … Continue reading Terminator: Dark Fate

In 2003 the US and Britain were seeking approval for a war on Iraq from the U.N. At this time a memo was circulated at GCHQ requesting an intensification on surveillance of U.N. Delegates that Katherine Gunn (Keira Knightley), a translator within the agency considered to be a request for blackmail information. After leaking the … Continue reading Official Secrets

Returning to Zombieland ten years on from the original film we find some old friends who have found that just moving from place to place isn’t enough. Wichita (Emma Stone) has commitment issues, Columbus (Jesse Eisenberg) wants to find a home, Little Rock (Abigail Breslin) wants to find love and people her own age and … Continue reading Zombieland: Double Tap

When Maleficent’s (Angelina Jolie) god daughter Aurora (Elle Fanning) becomes engaged to Prince Philip (Harris Dickinson) his mother Queen Ingrith (Michelle Pfeiffer) sees it as an opportunity to resolve the differences between humans and fey peoples. I’ll start with the good aspects of Disney’s sequel to 2014’s Maleficent. Firstly my children loved it and ultimately … Continue reading Maleficent: Mistress of Evil

Henry Brogan (Will Smith) is an expert sniper who has given his entire life to government work. But when his most recent job doesn’t go entirely to plan he asks to retire. Unfortunately the agency he works for have other ideas and send a younger operative to assassinate him. The younger operative unbeknownst to Henry … Continue reading Gemini Man

Frank ‘The Irishman’ Sheeran tells us the story of his life from the old peoples home where he is living out his last days. Over the course of 60 years he tells the account of how he returned from the war to be a delivery driver, made friends with people in the Italian mob, became … Continue reading The Irishman

Bobby and his friend Akkun go into the mountains after they finish school for the summer. Whilst there they come across an amusement park that they were unaware of and are invited to play Violence Voyager, a game where you fight robots trying to destroy the human race with only water pistols as weapons. As … Continue reading Violence Voyager

The poster tag line describes it as a film based on a hundred true stories but I am quite sure it will be like none you have seen before. Post 9/11 the FBI are desperate for convictions relating to terrorism. So much so that they actively use informants to trap less than dangerous delusional types … Continue reading The Day Shall Come

Joker is a character study of Arthur Fleck (Joaquin Phoenix). A man who lives with his mother, suffers from a disability that makes him laugh involuntarily and who idolises late night television presenter Murray Franklin (Robert DeNiro). This is an exceptionally good film that has two huge caveats that I feel I need to come to … Continue reading Joker

Based on the Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Donna Tartt The Goldfinch tells the story of Theodore Decker as a teenager and an adult. At the age of 13 whilst visiting an art museum his mother is killed in a terrorist explosion. In the wreckage Theodore has a dazed interaction with a fellow victim that … Continue reading The Goldfinch