Herself Review

This is a film that I wasn’t really expecting to see in the cinema. It was one of the films that was shown virtually at the London Film Festival last year, although I didn’t see it then, and I fully expected it to not show here in Cheltenham. However, it was shown as a Cineworld…

Reminiscence Review

This is a film that I was interested about mainly due to the creative team involved. Despite some issues I had with the second series, I thought that the first series of Westworld was excellent and I was interested to see what co-creator of the show Lisa Joy would do with her first film. That…

People Just Do Nothing: Big in Japan Review

I think it’s worth saying right out of the gate that I’ve not seen a full episode of People Just Do Nothing. I’m familiar with the show having seen a few clips of it, the British Airways safety videos with Asim Chaudhry and Chaudhry’s appearance on Taskmaster. That said, I think that any film should…

Snake Eyes: GI Joe Origins Review

The main craze of GI Joe happened way before my time, but I am a bit familiar with its iconography. I had fun with GI Joe: The Rise of COBRA, it’s not a good film but it had its tongue in its cheek and was mindless entertainment, GI Joe: Retaliation was a pretty bad film…

Free Guy Review

This film ended up being a really pleasant surprise. Watching the trailers I expected this to be a fairly generic comedy that took the tropes of video games to make something pretty generic. However, watching the film, I was struck by it being a pretty sincere and charming look at artificial intelligence. The film is…

Zola Review

The initial thread this film was based on was an aspect of Internet culture that completely passed me by. Whilst I understand that the Twitter thread went viral, I didn’t have a real understanding of what the thread was until I saw the film. This is a case where, sometimes, real life is stranger than…

The Sparks Brothers Review

Now I have to say upfront that I was not familiar with Sparks before this film was announced. The only time I remember hearing one of their songs is when ‘This Town Ain’t Big Enough For the Both of Us’ was used in Kick-Ass, but even then I didn’t know who the band was until…

Jungle Cruise Review

Of the films based on theme park attractions that Disney have made over the past few years, the only one that’s really worked was the first Pirates of the Caribbean film. I do think you can make a good film out of anything but Disney has not had the best track record in this area.…

The Suicide Squad Review

I’ve made it no secret in the past that I’ve not been a fan of the DCEU overall and the first Suicide Squad film is a clear example of why it doesn’t work. That was a film which suffered from some of the worst editing I’ve ever seen in a film, but it’s also a…