When world-famous author Verity Crawford (Anne Hathaway) is incapacitated by a car accident, her husband and publishers decide to keep the incident a secret and hire the unknown author Lowen Ashleigh (Dakota Johnson) to complete her book series. Initially, Lowen baulks at the idea of writing someone else’s novels, but the pleas from her husband, … Continue reading Verity
Disgraced former Secret Service Agent Lucas Reyes (Josh Hartnett) is given a shot at redemption when a Government Agency finds themselves desperately in need of a highly skilled agent in a location where they are suddenly bereft of them. If Lucas can board a flight from Bangkok to San Francisco, locate a criminal known only … Continue reading Fight or Flight
Cooper (Josh Hartnett) takes his teenage daughter Riley (Ariel Donoghue) to see the biggest Popstar on the planet perform live at a local arena. However the FBI have decided to use the gig as a trap for a serial killer known as “The Butcher” who they believe will be there. M. Night Shyamalan’s latest movie … Continue reading Trap
Last year the television shows that I watched were so insanely good that I created a Top 20 list and had 5 special mentions. This year, with the exception of my favourite 3 shows I am not sure anything would jostle last year's top 10 for position. Which is a shame. Or perhaps I watched … Continue reading 2023 – Year In Review – Television
The story of J. Robert Oppenheimer (Cillian Murphy) known as "the father of the atomic bomb". Christopher Nolan's biopic of Oppenheimer is typically not a straightforward telling of the man's life. In fact it eschews any efforts to tell you about his life prior to being a noteworthy physicist aside from a few scenes where … Continue reading Oppenheimer
Super spy Orson Fortune (Jason Statham) and his team are on a mission to stop an arms dealer selling a dangerous item in Guy Ritchie’s latest. Guy Ritchie is a writer/director with a very particular style that can hit (Lock, Stock…, Snatch, Sherlock, The Man From U.N.C.L.E.) as often as he can miss (Revolver, Swept … Continue reading Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre
Ridley Scott released his debut film The Duellists at the age of 40 in 1977. Since then he has worked at quite a fast pace, averaging more than 1 film every 2 years in his 40 year career. Interestingly only making 1 sequel (to a film he did not make) and 2 prequels, something worth … Continue reading Ridley Scott Retrospective
