Frozen 2 Review

The first Frozen was a massive surprise when it came out. I wasn’t really expecting much from it but it was a really good film and showed the power the animated musical can still have. Frozen was a cultural phenomenon and it would be hard to capture that magic again, but Disney has tried with…

The Report Review

This has been a film I’ve been intrigued by for a while. Writer/director Scott Z Burns has written some interesting scripts in the past, mainly in his work with Steven Soderberg and whilst not all of it has been successful (I personally think The Laundromat was a well intentioned misfire) there are always interesting elements…

The Irishman Review

So Martin Scorcese is one of my favourite directors. Whenever Scorcese does a mafia film you’re bound to get an interesting film, even if not all of them work 100%. With The Irishman, Scorcese is making what seems to be his epic crime drama, covering around 50 years of time, with the 3 1/2 hour…

The Good Liar Review

Bill Condon is one of those directors who’s not well suited for large scale films. Every time he’s made a larger scale, blockbuster film, mainly Twilight: Breaking Dawn and Beauty and the Beast, they haven’t worked. His best films have been more small scale ones, and of those films, the ones Condon has made with…

Midway Review

Roland Emmerich is one of those directors who is better when his films are less serious. Films like Independence Day and White House Down are a lot of fun, but films like Anonymous and Stonewall don’t work at all. So when I heard Emmerich was making a film about the Battle of Midway, I was…

Le Mans ’66 Review

Racing films can be a bit hit or miss with me. For every brilliant piece of filmmaking like Senna or Rush you get other racing films that seem to think that just the idea of racing is enough to create a compelling film. So Le Mans ’66 whilst interesting, especially with James Mangold directing, never…

Sorry We Missed You Review

It’s fair to say that Ken Loach is one of the most visceral and furious directors working today. After initially retiring from filmmaking in 2014, Loach has reinvigorated himself due to the cruelty of the current Conservative government and its austerity regime. Following on from I, Daniel Blake, which tackled the benefits system, Sorry We…

Terminator: Dark Fate Review

The Terminator franchise is a mixed bag, to put it mildly. The first two films are masterpieces of sci-fi, Terminator 3 has some good moments but doesn’t quite work as a whole, I liked Salvation more than most people but it is a mess and Genisys is a complete disaster. So my expectations for Dark…

The Aeronauts Review

This is a film that I have been intrigued by for a while. When I’ve looked at the upcoming film schedule over the past few months, I’ve kept seeing this pop up there but didn’t really know any specific details, aside from it being about balloon travel, until the trailer was released a while ago.…

Doctor Sleep Review

The original The Shining I think is one of the best horror films ever made. The way that Kubrick builds the tension through isolation throughout the film is masterful and there is so much care and detail in every frame of the film. Famously though, Stephen King hated the film at the time due to…