‘Smile be happy‘, you will be if your the CEO of Warner Bros Pictures. Todd Phillips Joker may not be your ‘average comic book movie’. Nor does it have to be or need CGI or spandex characters to deliver. As I write this review, the film has just picked up two Oscars…Best Actor, Best Score.… Read More Film Review – Joker (2019)
This coming Wednesday 26th February , 2020 Glasgow Film Festival will open its doors. The 16th edition of the festival will take place across 12 days. We can expect World premieres, 10 European premieres, 102 UK premieres and 39 Scottish premieres. Over 380 movies will be shown at this years festival which can be very… Read More Must See Films At 2020 Glasgow Film Festival
When James Wan released Insidious, he reinvigorated a very tired horror genre. Going back to basics to get maximum return, something you could do to any genre. Joe Penna‘s Arctic follows those rules in the Survival thriller genre. They do it in the most minimal, effective , sophisticated way. Mads Mikkelsen stars as our stranded… Read More Film Review – Arctic (2019)
Sometimes It’s good going into a film knowing very little about it with low expectations. In Pablo Trapero’s last film, The Clan (2015)it was a bizarre, engrossing tale about a Bourgeois family tipping it’s toes into the evils that money brings. The ending took us all surprise (in a good way), expecting the unexpected. We… Read More Film Review – The Quietude (2018)
Who would want to be an Politician? Apart from those who openly exploit the ‘expenses’ loophole, a political career seems a toxic career choice. Jason Reitman‘s The Front Runner focuses one one of the so called ‘Good Guys’ of American Politics, Gary Hart. The young pretender who had the keys of the White House in… Read More Film Review – The Front Runner (2019)
I remember a friend said to me one time “only women get affected emotionally in relationships”. How wrong she was, it effects men and women. In Taiwanese based director Ho Wi Ding‘s Cities Of Last Things, a noir-esque triptych follows one man’s life in reverse chronological order. A reflective film that reminds is decisions we… Read More Film Review – Cities Of Last Things (2018)
For Five years we’ve impatiently on David Robert Mitchell‘s follow up to It Follows . Now Under The Silver Lake has arrived, it may not tick all the boxes to be an instant cult classic, but it’s on the way to be one. This is one film you can file as a marmite film. Many… Read More Film Review – Under The Silver Lake (2018 )
Cinema loves creepy kids and through out film history, the cannon of eerie siblings wanting your every whim. In Lee Cronin’s The Hole In The Ground it will challenge you to ask yourself one question. Is that your child next to you? Are you sure?! The past few years its been quiet a resurgence for the horror genre.… Read More Film Review -The Hole In The Ground (2019)
When it comes to historical moments in our history, we seem to talk more about that event than the people involved in it. In First Man, the focus does shift to them, Neil Armstrong the first man to walk on the moon. A story that’s not so much that one small step for man he… Read More Film Review – First Man (2018)
Every generation ‘stars are born’ or in the words of Jackson Maine ‘Talent Is Everywhere’, he would be correct. Last October, Bradley Cooper had a lot to say when he made his directorial feature debut, A Star Is Born, when it was released in the cinema, now you can own it. When the film was… Read More Film Review – A Star Is Born (2018)
