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Review: Outpost – “I enjoyed this sparky little horror movie.”

Review: Outpost – “I enjoyed this sparky little horror movie.”

Posted by on Sep 7, 2023 in All, drama, Film, Headline, Reviews, thriller | 0 comments

I enjoyed this sparky little horror movie. It is compact (less than 90 minutes) and fun. But… I’m a horror fan and my enjoyment was on the...

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Review: Once Upon a Time in Uganda – “The delight and dedication are obvious and contagious”

Review: Once Upon a Time in Uganda – “The delight and dedication are obvious and contagious”

Posted by on Aug 31, 2023 in action, All, documentary, Film, Headline, Reviews | 0 comments

“The Beatles of exploding heads.” A cursory look at the headlines about Uganda highlights tragedy, violence, ecocide, and the fact...

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Review: Love Life – “The kind of special movie that reminds us what cinema can do”

Review: Love Life – “The kind of special movie that reminds us what cinema can do”

Posted by on Aug 11, 2023 in All, drama, Film, Headline, Reviews | 0 comments

Love Life is a Japanese relationship drama that incorporates humour, melodrama and a sense of the unpredictability and unknowability that...

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Review: Prisoner’s Daughter – “One of the best films I’ve seen so far this year”

Review: Prisoner’s Daughter – “One of the best films I’ve seen so far this year”

Posted by on Jun 29, 2023 in All, drama, Film, Headline, Reviews | 0 comments

Violence.  A difficult and relevant topic.  Not just physical violence.  We’ve only really begun to understand in the last century the...

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Review: Maggie Moore[s] – “Highly recommended”

Review: Maggie Moore[s] – “Highly recommended”

Posted by on Jun 16, 2023 in All, drama, Film, Reviews, thriller | 0 comments

Maggie Moore[s] is a more melancholy Fargo. At the outset, we’re told that ‘Some of this actually happened…’  Fargo similarly opens with a...

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Review: Beast – “Fun, entertaining, re-watchable, occasionally silly”

Review: Beast – “Fun, entertaining, re-watchable, occasionally silly”

Posted by on Aug 26, 2022 in action, All, drama, Film, Headline, Reviews, thriller | 0 comments

Idris Elba is a star. He’s a fantastic actor, he’s so ludicrously handsome that he could un-curdle milk from 200 paces, and he’s so...

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Review: Summer In The Shade – “You’ll find yourself drawn into the story like a great page-turner of a novel.”

Review: Summer In The Shade – “You’ll find yourself drawn into the story like a great page-turner of a novel.”

Posted by on Jun 14, 2022 in All, drama, Film, Headline, Reviews, thriller | 2 comments

It seems like an increasingly shining age for female filmmakers, and it couldn’t happen soon enough. Internationally, the likes of...

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Review – The Loneliest Whale: The Search For 52 – “Well-told, well-made, and it’s uplifting”

Review – The Loneliest Whale: The Search For 52 – “Well-told, well-made, and it’s uplifting”

Posted by on Mar 30, 2022 in All, documentary, Film, Reviews | 0 comments

Nature documentaries have never shied away from showing upsetting things, but these days, it feels riskier to sit down and watch one. They...

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Review: The Batman – “Scenes of fantastic cinematic spectacle.”

Review: The Batman – “Scenes of fantastic cinematic spectacle.”

Posted by on Feb 28, 2022 in action, All, Comics, drama, Film, Headline, horror, Reviews, sci-fi, thriller | 0 comments

The Batman is back.  Solid, at times stunning, if not as bold as we may have hoped.  Reeves and Pattinson are safe hands to guide the...

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Review: American Night – “Alessio Della Valle deserves credit for the look of his film”

Review: American Night – “Alessio Della Valle deserves credit for the look of his film”

Posted by on Feb 5, 2022 in action, All, drama, Film, Headline, Reviews, thriller | 0 comments

Post-Tarantino.  Pulp Fiction knock-offs.  You know the sort of thing… The Way of the Gun.  Lucky Number Slevin.  Guy Ritchie’s entire...

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