Movies

Let’s hear it for streaming platforms when it comes to watching films in the time of COVID. While my preference is always to see films on the big screen in the darkness and escape of a movie theatre, the reality is that even where cinemas are open and operating, getting Continue Reading

One of the great enduring joys of any movie or TV show that comes from Aardman Animations is the cheekiness and sense of fun that infuses every last frame. Movies like Chicken Run (2000), Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005) and Arthur Christmas (2011), and now, of Continue Reading

There are, so we are told, only so many story types in circulation. Which means, of course, that even when you try to be blisteringly original, you are usually, no matter how hard to try or how much imagination you bring to the narrative table, repeating much of which has Continue Reading

SNAPSHOTIn the vein of hits such as Wreck-It-Ralph, Free Guy will follow a background character who discovers he lives in a video game and works to prevent the makers of the game from shutting it down with the help of an avatar. (synopsis courtesy Coming Soon) If there was a Continue Reading

Netflix, it will not surprise you to learn, has another cleverly exuberant hit on its streaming hands. The new kids on the watercooler block is Enola Holmes, based on Nancy Springer’s series of delightful books, a film that’s all about the younger sister of Sherlock Holmes (Millie Bobby Brown) who Continue Reading

For a species that has been around for a good 300,000 years or so in various evolutionary iterations, humanity has an astonishingly short attention span and an almost alarming inability to see beyond the immediate. You could argue that entirely the opposite is the case, using as your examples the Continue Reading

The rom-com is dead! Long live the rom-com! As genres go, romantic comedies have been deemed to have lost all signs of life more times than a heartsick man or woman has rushed to the airport at the last minute in a blind, desperate panic, eager to tell their one Continue Reading

It is a rare and wonderful thing indeed to walk away from a film feeling as if the world is a little brighter for having seen it. But that is precisely what happens to you as take in the convention-busting delights of Enola Holmes, newly-arrived on Netflix and based on Continue Reading