The true story of how Ruth Bader Ginsberg (Felicity Jones) toppled the laws that discriminated on the basis of sex leading to more equal legal footing between men and women. On the basis of sex is a quintessential against the odds biopic. Traversing through a number of years in the life of a famous figure … Continue reading On The Basis Of Sex
When school boy Alex (Louis Ashbourne Serkis) stumbles upon Excalibur in a building site whilst escaping from some bullies it sets him on a path to save the world. The Kid Who Would be King is the sort of film that sits perfectly alongside the likes of The Goonies. It’s about a group of imaginative … Continue reading The Kid Who Would Be King
Best friends Jen (Jackie van Beek) and Mel (Madeleine Sami) offer a public service for the right price. Stuck in a bad relationship and too scared to break it off yourself? Jen and Mel will irreparably break that relationship for you. This breezy New Zealand comedy arrives on Netflix using executive producer Taika Waititi’s name … Continue reading The Breaker Upperers
The final chapter in an animated trilogy spanning 9 years features Hiccup (Jay Baruchel) and Toothless facing a danger that forces them to seek The Hidden World. A mythical place where dragons are thought to originate and perhaps the only safe place left for them when a new threat in the form of dragon hunter … Continue reading How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
Jared (Lucas Hedges) is forced to attend gay conversion therapy by his father who is a devout Baptist preacher. Based on a memoir by Garrard Conley, Boy Erased is Joel Edgerton’s second feature film as writer/director/star following the promising thriller The Gift. I found Boy Erased to be a bit of a conundrum whilst watching … Continue reading Boy Erased
In the year 2563, cybernetics doctor Dyson Ido (Christoph Waltz) finds the remains of a cyborg with a human brain whilst searching for scrap. Repairing her and giving her a new body he names her Alita (Rosa Salazar). Unable to remember her previous life she seeks to learn about the dilapidated Iron City she finds … Continue reading Alita: Battle Angel
When Wyldstyle (Elizabeth Banks) and some of the other heroes from the original film are kidnapped by General Mayhem (Brooklyn Nine-Nine’s Stephanie Beatriz), Emmet (Chris Pratt) must travel to the Sistar System to rescue them. Just like Incredibles 2, the Lego Movie sequel picks up exactly where the original left off with Duplo arriving in … Continue reading The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part
A 90-year-old horticulturist, down on his luck takes a job as a Mexican cartel drug mule. The Mule is a film with excellent credentials. Clint Eastwood was thought to have retired as far as the dual role of actor/director goes with 2008’s excellent Gran Torino. Since then he has only appeared as an actor in … Continue reading The Mule
In 1970’s Harlem, two young lovers lives are thrown into turmoil when Fonny (Stephan James) is accused of rape. Tish (KiKi Lane) and her family try to prove his innocence whilst he awaits trial and she is pregnant with his child. Barry Jenkins follow up to his Best Picture winning Moonlight is another stunningly intimate film. … Continue reading If Beale Street Could Talk
A group of six strangers take up the invitation of an escape room with the promise of $10,000 to anyone who can succeed. Up until the last five minutes of this film my thoughts were that it was a relatively interesting, if hugely generic “horror” film. The word horror in inverted commas because it’s not … Continue reading Escape Room
