Movies

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

A mixed bag this time, with an animated feature, a thoughtful indie drama and a documentary from an icon of the natural world on the slate. If you look closer, all of them share one very important quality – the need and longing for a better world, something that all Continue Reading

SNAPSHOTThis video examines one of Christopher Nolan’s trademark techniques—the crosscut—by dissecting The Dark Knight, Inception, and Interstellar. (synopsis (c) Lessons From the Screenplay) By any measure, Christopher Nolan is one of the most inventive, clever and enthrallingly immersive filmmakers working today. So who better than Lesson From the Screenplay‘s Michael Continue Reading

It’s cinema, Jim, but not as we know it … COVID-19 has upended everything when it comes to films and cinema-going – cinemas are either shut or they’re open but barely or they’re showing retro retreads and precious few new films and all the old certainties have well and truly Continue Reading

MINOR SPOILERS LIE AHEAD … Twenty nine years is a long time between films for any franchise, and it’s fair to wonder if after waiting all that time, whether Bill & Ted Face the Music may have lost the zest and sweet, sincere hilarity of the first two instalments Bill Continue Reading

If there’s one thing that defines us as a species, it’s a desperate, driving, impelling desire to live … and to do whatever it takes to remain in the land of living when life itself is threatened. It’s a core driver in all kinds of stories but especially in apocalyptic Continue Reading

It is well nigh impossible not to love a movie that features Death aka the Grim Reaper in a dress, Martians that resemble the love children of Ewoks and Cling and Clang from H. R. Pufnstuf and good and bad stoner dude robots of various levels of technological sophistication. Which Continue Reading