EIFF 2019 Review – Liberté: A Call to Spy – “A remarkable film”
Directed by Lydia Dean Pilcher Starring Sarah Megan Thomas, Stana Katic, Radhika Apte, Linus Roache, Rossif Sutherland, Andrew Richardson...
Read MoreReview: Toy Story 4 – “Funny and excitingly weird”
The gang of sentient playthings that everyone loves are back after a nine-year hiatus that has still not been long enough to get over the...
Read MoreSpielBLOG – Twilight Zone: The Movie – A Steven Spielberg Retrospective
In the 1980s, the TV spin-off movie was relatively rare. Star Trek: The Motion Picture and its sequel The Wrath of Khan had been...
Read MoreEIFF 2019 Review – Memory: The Origins of Alien – “An exploration of the myriad of people involved in the gestation of this now-iconic film”
Hard to believe, but here we are in the last third of June and that means Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF) time. My first...
Read MoreReview: Child’s Play – “Mark Hamill is brilliant”
The new take on 80s slasher Child’s Play is directed by Norwegian Lars Klevberg (Polaroid) from a script written by Tyler Burton Smith...
Read MoreReview: We The Animals – “Cinematic art at its purest”
There couldn’t have been a better time to release We The Animals than Pride month. The world needs more queer stories that feel relatable...
Read MoreReview – Men In Black: International – “Enjoyable but forgettable”
Men In Black. I always like the concept of that shadowy figure who would turn up after a UFO sighting and menacingly tell the witness to...
Read MoreSpielBLOG: E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial – A Steven Spielberg Retrospective
I don’t cry watching movies. I weep. Sometimes inconsolably. Certain classic movies can press my buttons in a way that isn’t...
Read MoreSpielBLOG: Raiders of the Lost Ark – A Steven Spielberg Retrospective
Raiders of the Lost Ark was the first Steven Spielberg film I saw on the big screen, at The Astra Cinema, Barrow-in-Furness in July 1981....
Read MoreReview – X-Men: Dark Phoenix – “Fails to soar, but isn’t a car crash either”
I refute your hypothesis that X-MEN: DARK PHOENIX is a car crash. The opening scene, with an actual car crash? Sure. But in amongst the...
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