A single nuclear missile from an unknown source is detected heading towards the United States of America, triggering a race against time to determine who is responsible and how to respond. A House of Dynamite portrays the same twenty minutes of tension from three different perspectives, essentially creating three overlaying short films. “Inclination is Flattening” … Continue reading A House Of Dynamite
Investigative journalist Laura Blacklock (Keira Knightley) has just filed the copy for one of her most harrowing articles yet. Can she recharge with a simple human interest story that also involves spending three days on a luxury yacht? Not when she witnesses the woman in cabin 10 fall overboard only to be told there was … Continue reading The Woman In Cabin 10
Lainy Newton (Amy Schumer) believes that her boyfriend is about to propose to her but instead his indecent proposal is going to send her on a spiral that will somehow result in her pretending that she is pregnant. Of course this will happen to coincide with her meeting the real man of her dreams Josh … Continue reading Kinda Pregnant
In 1938, Sutton Hoo, Suffolk, Landowner Edith Pretty (Carey Mulligan) hires self-taught archeologist Basil Brown (Ralph Fiennes) to excavate large burial mounds on her rural estate. The Dig is a rather superb film with two genuinely interesting plot lines. The first is a race against time that is placed straight in front of us. Edith … Continue reading The Dig
The Thursday Murder Club is a group of four pensioners who live at Cooper’s Chase Retirement home that get together in their spare time to solve cold cases. But when the owner of Cooper’s Chase is struck down at his home they have a real life case to solve. The Thursday Murder Club is based … Continue reading The Thursday Murder Club
Happy Gilmore (Adam Sandler) comes out of retirement to try and win enough money to send his daughter Vienna (Sunny Sandler) to a prestigious ballet school. A lot has happened to Happy since we saw him twenty-nine years ago in the original Happy Gilmore movie. Success on the golf course, five children, the tragic death … Continue reading Happy Gilmore 2
Hard-bitten cop Walker (Tom Hardy) tries to track down the son of an important politician before the Triads and a group of corrupt cops get their hands on him. Havoc is unfortunately a rather large misfire from Welsh writer/director Gareth Evans who brought us the rather exceptional The Raid and The Raid 2. Unless that … Continue reading Havoc
1978, Los Angeles. Aspiring actress Sheryl Bradshaw (Anna Kendrick) has been in Tinseltown for two years and has not yet made her breakthrough. So her agent puts her on the hit TV show “The Dating Game” in order to get her face out there. Unbeknownst to anyone though, Batchelor Number Three is serial killer Rodney … Continue reading Woman Of The Hour
In my opinion Ryan Gosling is one of the best actors of his generation. Which just so happens to be my generation, which for some peculiar reason makes me follow his career with great intrigue. My goal here will be to tell you what I think his ten best movies are. And you may ask, … Continue reading Ten Of The Best… Ryan Gosling
Orphaned teenager Michelle (Millie Bobby Brown) sets out on a search for her long lost brother with a robot named Cosmo (Alan Tudyk). They form a tenuous alliance with a smuggler named Keats (Chris Pratt) and his robot friend Herman (Anthony Mackie) before setting out into a dangerous desert wasteland. Set in an alternate version … Continue reading The Electric State
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