Review: Booksmart – “Laughs and life lessons”
For those of us who left high school during the gross-out, testosterone fest of American Pie it would have been fantastic to have seen...
Read MoreSteven SpielBLOG: Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Steven Spielberg is a home-wrecker. Literally. In Sugarland Express, the foster parents of Baby Brandon have their home invaded and their...
Read MoreReview: Aladdin – “Slick and charming dancing-in-your-seat and impossible-not-to-sing-a-long-to romantic action-adventure”
A live-action update of the 1992 animated Disney classic, the new Aladdin is written by John August (Go), directed by Guy Ritchie (Snatch)...
Read MoreReview: Destroyer – “Powerful, unusual and haunting”
Directed by Karyn Kusama Starring Nicole Kidman, Sebastian Stan, Toby Kebbell, Tatiana Maslany, Scott McNairy, Jade Pettyjohn The...
Read MoreSteven SpielBLOG: Jaws
Jaws was shown on ITV 8 October 1981, its UK television premiere. A Saturday. I was 9 years old. 23 million others watched it the same...
Read MoreReview – John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum – “There is a certain point when you will genuinely think that a dog is going to shoot somebody”
Written by Derek Kolstad (John Wick and John Wick 2) and directed by Chad Stahelski (both John Wick’s and apparently a new Highlander),...
Read MoreReview: Blue – “Shocking and disturbing contrasted with remarkable beauty and wonder”
“Wherever you live on our planet, you are connected to the sea.” This powerful and thoughtful documentary by Karina Holden (Magical Land...
Read MoreSteven SpielBLOG: The Sugarland Express
In the early seventies, a debut movie was released of a young filmmaker. Based on a true story, it told the slim tale of two naive young...
Read MoreReview: The Hustle – “Utterly dull”
The Hustle had such potential: a gender flip take on an old story that’s all about women using the way men underestimate them to con said...
Read MoreReview: Pokémon Detective Pikachu – “One of the best videogame movies ever”
Pokémon: Detective Pikachu is written by Dan Hernandez and Benji Samit (The Tick) and directed by Rob Letterman (Goosebumps). The film...
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