Movies

Remakes are interesting creations. The first question you have to ask yourself when you watch one, is did it need to be made in the first place, especially if, in the instance of The Guilty, starring Jake Gyllenhaal as disgraced police officer Joe Baylor, it is widely agreed that the Continue Reading

SNAPSHOTAn introduction to the Eternals, a race of immortal beings who lived on Earth and shaped its history and civilizations. After an unexpected tragedy following the events of Avengers: Endgame, the Eternals—an immortal alien race created by the Celestials who have secretly lived on Earth for over 7,000 years—reunite to Continue Reading

Finding yourself is not an easy undertaking. It doesn’t seem like that necessarily when we’re growing up; we just accept all the slings and arrows of journeying through childhood into adulthood as just the way life is but the truth is, looking back, it takes its toll. Quite how much Continue Reading

There’s a gloriously good key scene in Free Guy which nails precisely what this joyously manic film is all about. After a series of wake-up shots, where Guy (Ryan Reynolds in garrulously vulnerable form) has woken up at the same time in the exact same way with hallmarks of the Continue Reading

Life is, when you stop long enough to think about it, a series of transitions. We don’t necessarily view them that way since much of life is one hurried leap from one moment to another but with hindsight firmly engaged and a rare second to fall into introspection, you can Continue Reading

One of the great tropes of romantic comedies, indeed any love worth its red-toned, Cupid-heavy salt, is the headily appealing idea that opposites attract. There’s something inherently beguiling about the notion that two quite disparate people can find enough common ground on which to build a romance for the ages, Continue Reading

When you love someone’s creation with the unvarnished innocence and enthusiasm of childhood, and yes, this can persist well into adulthood since it retains for perpetuity the shape and ardour with which it was formed, it’s hard to conceive of its creator as someone with raw, troubled humanity, in other Continue Reading