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

The 5th film (and possibly final) in the Rambo franchise sees Sylvester Stallone in a plot line that feels borrowed from a Taken movie. When his niece goes missing in Mexico looking for her absent father John Rambo uses his special skills to find her. I have always found the Rambo sequels an odd affair. … Continue reading Rambo: Last Blood

Grace (Samara Weaving) is marrying into the incredibly rich Le Domas family and she is soon to find out how eccentric they are too. On her wedding night she is told that all new family members must play a game and when she draws “Hide and Seek” what she doesn’t realise is that the loser … Continue reading Ready Or Not

Hells Kitchen, 1978. The husbands of Kathy (Melissa McCarthy), Ruby (Tiffany Haddish) and Claire (Elizabeth Moss) are sent to prison for armed robbery and when the Irish mob don’t provide for them they decide to continue on in their husbands roles and earn for themselves. The Kitchen has an initially interesting concept that fails to … Continue reading The Kitchen