Movies

All too often when you lose someone close, it’s a catastrophically sudden thing that leave little to no time to deal with either its occurrence or its emotionally chaotic aftermath. You are suddenly cut adrift, unmoored from the certainties of your life, and wish with every part of you that Continue Reading

Blockbusters, especially those bouncing with superhuman dexterity and grace off the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) production line, rarely have tangibly real emotion in abundance. But Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, written and directed by Ryan Coogler (he co-wrote the screenplay with Joe Robert Cole) seems determined to prove that this is Continue Reading

Pick an upbeat word, any upbeat word, and there’s a very good chance the dictionary will say point you straight to Enola Holmes 2. Leaving aside why the good burghers of dictionary-dom would do this, save for the fact that they, like us, have been utterly beguiled by the sparkly Continue Reading

SNAPSHOTIt has been more than ten years since Giselle (Adams) and Robert (Dempsey) wed, but Giselle has grown disillusioned with life in the city, so they move their growing family to the sleepy suburban community of Monroeville in search of a more fairy tale life. Unfortunately, it isn’t the quick Continue Reading

It’s tempting to think of the chaotic world in which we live, and of the people who inhabit it, both current and historic, in starkly binary terms – good and evil, black and white, laudable and not. It helps us make sense of a messy world and it reassures us Continue Reading

One of the great weights that hang, albatross-like, around our necks as we go through life, is that things are supposed to happen a certain way. Somehow our collective consciousness as a society has decided that, whatever the circumstance and no matter how individual the experience, we must all go Continue Reading

Hello end of the year! It’s the traditional period in which movies come at us in numbers so considerable that your only option is to camp at your favourite cinema if you want to see them all. Leaving obvious hygiene issues aside, it means that all too often we’re having Continue Reading

Romantic comedies are one of cinema’s most popular genres for a reason. In a world full of banality and ho-hum-dom, where reality can’t really compete with our once-vibrant expectations of late – if this all seems a little bleak, ennui can strike you even if you’ve had a perfectly lovely Continue Reading