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In these troubled times the world is suffering from a pandemic, whilst within the UK the prospect of Scottish independence is on the rise. Due to these factors now seems like a great time to revisit the B-Movie homage Doomsday. In 2008 Scotland suffers from an outbreak of the deadly Reaper Virus. To protect the […]
A Street Cat Named Bob was a big hit in the UK. It was a touching story about how a man saved a stray cat and that cat helped him overcome his drug addiction. The pair return for a Christmas themed sequel. Following the events of the first film James Bowen (Luke Treadaway) still busks […]
Wonder Woman 1984 is the last major blockbuster to be released in 2020. Considering how horrible a year 2020 has been the second Wonder Woman cinematic adventure is a nice well to close the year for film fans. In 1984 Diana Prince (Gal Gadot) works as an anthropologist at the Smithsonian Institute and does superheroics […]
On the surface, Robert Eggers’ The Lighthouse is a story about two lighthouse keepers driven to insanity. However, nothing is at seems in this film. Like Eggers’ first film The Witch, The Lighthouse is a period piece. Set in the late 1890s, the film’s two main characters, Thomas Wake (Willem Dafoe) and Thomas Howard (Robert […]
Since the pandemic has struck the film distribution model has been disrupted. Many companies have tried and failed to make a profit from the Premium Video-on-Demand. Warner Brothers have made the radical decision to release all their 2021 scheduled films in cinemas and HBO Max at the same time. Reactions to Warner Brothers’ has been […]
Kieran Freemantle and Jean discuss the past, present, and future of the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise.
Wander Darkly is a conundrum of a film. A deep dive into the fracturing of a relationship, there’s a lot to like about it: strong leading performances from Sienna Miller and Diego Luna as the central couple along with interesting directorial choices from writer-director Tara Miele that lend the film a surrealist tinge that keeps […]
White Lie is a drama that has been well received by critics and was selected as one of the Top Ten Canadian Films at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival. Katie Arneson (Kacey Rohl) is a university student who has been faking she has cancer. Even her girlfriend, Jenn (Amber Anderson) believes she’s ill. Katie […]
Bad Times at the El Royale was Drew Goddard’s homage to film noir and ensemble casts. What he created was a film about people with deep, dark secrets coalescing at a single location. The El Royale Hotel is literally on the border of California and Nevada. On one faithful day in 1969, five people with […]
Kieran Freemantle and Jean Henegan discuss the Nostalgia Boom that is currently dominating Hollywood.