A few months after 9/11, Mohamedou Ould Slahi (Tahar Rahim) is arrested by the authorities in his country and handed to the American authorities. Years later he is still being held at Guantanamo Bay without charge and civil rights lawyer Nancy Hollander (Jodie Foster) takes on his case. The Mauritanian is a really solid and … Continue reading The Mauritanian
Abe Applebaum (Adam Brody) used to be a famous kid detective. Now, aged thirty-two he is still finding lost cats in between getting drunk and feeling sorry for himself. That is until naive sixteen year old Caroline (Sophie Nelisse) hires him to find out who murdered her boyfriend. The debut feature film from writer/director Evan … Continue reading The Kid Detective
On 2nd October 2018, Jamal Khashoggi, a Saudi journalist in exile in Turkey entered the Saudi consulate in order to obtain certificates that would allow him to marry his fiancée Hatice Cengiz. He was never seen again. Bryan Fogel’s documentary about Khashoggi’s state sponsored assassination is framed to some extent like a thriller. The details … Continue reading The Dissident
Legendary filmmaker Jake Hannaford (John Huston) is in the process of trying to complete his experimental movie The Other Side Of The Wind. On his birthday in an effort to secure more funding for the film he has a party populated by many people from fans, hangers on, industry members and prospective financiers. The Other … Continue reading The Other Side Of The Wind
On the cusp of World War II British Intelligence officer Thomas Miller (Eddie Izzard) takes a role as a teacher in the Augusta Victoria college for German girls in Bexhill-on-Sea. Intelligence have concerns that the school is a double for German spy activity and believe the girls could be valuable prisoners, if war were to … Continue reading Six Minutes To Midnight
Orson Welles was a prodigious talent who will go down as one of the greatest film makers who ever lived. But also one whose talent was wasted due to his exile from Hollywood. This documentary tries to cover Welles’ attempts to make what would be his final film, ‘The Other Side Of The Wind’ between … Continue reading They’ll Love Me When I’m Dead
Kayla (Chloe Grace Moretz) is a grifter who has just tricked her way into a prestigious job at the Royal Gate Hotel. Can she successfully oversee an extravagant wedding at the hotel or will some cat and mouse hi-jinx scupper everything? Tom & Jerry is a bit of an odd hybrid of a movie in … Continue reading Tom & Jerry: The Movie (2021)
In 2010, Mari Gilbert’s (Amy Ryan) daughter does missing in Long Island, New York. Frustrated by the police inaction she starts her own investigation into the disappearance that results in the police discovering more dead women buried in the region. Lost Girls is based on the novel Lost Girls: An Unsolved American Mystery by Robert … Continue reading Lost Girls
Private Investigator Carson Phillips (John Travolta) is hired by a damsel in distress for a job back in his old stomping ground of Galveston, Texas. A place he left as a disgraced football star under a betting scandal. There he will come into contact with his old flame Jayne (Famke Jansen) and old friends such … Continue reading Eye For An Eye
My original review of 2017's Justice League was not kind. I saw the film twice at the cinema and once on home media and each time my opinion of the film got worse. It was half baked with wasted characters, underwritten lead heroes and villains, had poor CGI and massive tonal issues. These issues in … Continue reading Zack Snyder’s Justice League
