DIRECTOR: Jamila Wignot CAST: Alvin Ailey, Bill T. Jones, Judith Jamison, George Faison RUNNING TIME: 82 mins CERTIFICATE: 12A BASICALLY…: The life and career of influential dance choreographer Alvin Ailey… NOW FOR THE REVIEW… You may know some of his famous dance...
The Tragedy of Macbeth (Review #2) – Is This A Masterpiece Which I See Before Me?
DIRECTOR: Joel Coen CAST: Denzel Washington, Frances McDormand, Corey Hawkins, Brendan Gleeson, Harry Melling, Bertie Carvel, Alex Hassell, Kathryn Hunter, Moses Ingram, Ralph Ineson, Sean Patrick Thomas, Stephen Root, Brian Thompson, Richard Short RUNNING TIME: 105...
Licorice Pizza (Review) – PTA’s Finest Film In Years
DIRECTOR: Paul Thomas Anderson CAST: Alana Haim, Cooper Hoffman, Sean Penn, Tom Waits, Bradley Cooper, Benny Safdie, Emma Dumont, Maya Rudolph, Skyler Gisondo, Mary Elizabeth Ellis, Joseph Cross, Nate Mann, John C. Reilly, Christine Ebersole, Ray Chase, John Michael...
The Electrical Life of Louis Wain (Review) – An Art Biopic For Cat People
DIRECTOR: Will Sharpe CAST: Benedict Cumberbatch, Claire Foy, Andrea Riseborough, Toby Jones, Jamie Demetriou, Aimee Lou Wood, Hayley Squires, Stacy Martin, Julian Barratt, Sharon Rooney, Adeel Akhtar, Asim Chaudhry, Sophia Di Martino, Olivier Richters, Olivia Colman,...
BEST OF 2021: #5-1
Top five time, and it all kicks off with… 5 – THE REASON I JUMP Hindsight can be a glorious thing, and in this case it has allowed me to realise that I was perhaps a little too generous with my A+ grades this year. Not that the films which were awarded the website’s...
BEST OF 2021: #10-6
Cracking into our Top 10 of the year has never been easier, as we’re starting with… 10 – DUNE Succeeding where the likes of David Lynch and Alejandro Jodorowsky have failed, Denis Villeneuve brought Frank Herbert’s epic sci-fi tome to life in the only way that was...
BEST OF 2021: #15-11
The worst of the worst is finally behind us (in terms of films, we mean), leaving us to finally focus on some of the brightest spots of the year! But first, a roundup of honourable mentions (in no particular order): Pig King Richard Titane The Mitchells vs. The...
The King’s Man (Review) – Has The Franchise Run Out Of Steam?
DIRECTOR: Matthew Vaughn CAST: Ralph Fiennes, Gemma Arterton, Rhys Ifans, Matthew Goode, Tom Hollander, Harris Dickinson, Daniel Brühl, Djimon Hounsou, Charles Dance, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Neil Jackson, Stanley Tucci, Joel Basman, Alison Steadman, Robert Aramayo,...
WORST OF 2021: #5-1
We’re finally into our bottom five – let’s just get this over with… 5 – INFINITE As bad as Thunder Force is, it’s exactly what you’d expect from a Melissa McCarthy-Ben Falcone movie. However, Infinite ends up ranking lower than even that on this list, for it is...
WORST OF 2021: #10-6
We’ve now reached our Bottom 10, and we’re starting off with… 10 – THE ADDAMS FAMILY 2 Although the 2019 animated reboot of Charles Addams’ iconic creepy, kooky et al family wasn’t an especially great movie, it at least felt like a movie. Not so much its rushed,...