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I will admit I came pretty late to the Schitt’s Creek party, but I cannot tell you how glad I am that I arrived before the show ends its six season run next year. As a recent convert to the genius of Daniel Levy and this thoroughly delightful and wonderful world of misfits he has […]
Spider-man: Far From Home is the first MCU film to be released after Avengers: Endgame – and the implication those events have on the film franchise. Seeing that Endgame ended on such a high Spider-man: Far From Home had a lot to live up to. Spider-man: Far From Home picks up eight months after Avengers: Endgame where The Avengers successfully reverse ‘The Blip.’ Peter […]
Yesterday is a film that has gathered some of the biggest talents in British entertainment. It was produced by Working Title Films, directed by Academy Award winner Danny Boyle, written by Richard Curtis, and centred on the music of The Beatles. Jack Malik (Himesh Patel) is a struggling musician who is prepared to give it up after one […]
I Love My Mum is the second feature-length film from Camelot Films. This comedy had a bigger budget but was problematic on a writing level. Ron and Oleg (Tommy French and Kierston Wareing) are mother and son who have an incredibly dysfunctional relationship. After one argument too many the pair end up crashing into a shipping container and […]
Informer was a BBC miniseries described as a character-driven thriller which lasted for six episodes. Raza (Nabhaan Rizwan) is young British-Pakistani whose is is forced to infiltrate a terrorist cell by Gabe Waters (Paddy Considine), a detective for the Met’s Counter Terrorism unit. Gabe promises Raza that his mother would get a British passport if he’s successful, but if […]
Toy Story was the film that put Pixar on the map and the subsequent films made the series a perfect trilogy. So it was seemingly bizarre that Pixar would go back to the well for a fourth entry. After the events of Toy Story 3 Andy has given up his toys to a little girl called Bonnie (Madeleine […]
There are many coming-of-age high school films that focus on graduation, prom, or a big party. Booksmart‘s USP is being a female-centric party film and is already considered by some critics as one of the best comedies of 2019. Molly (Beanie Feldstein) and Amy (Kaitlyn Dever) are best friends who have their education above everything else […]
What would you do if you have unlimited power? This is the debate often explored in superhero fiction and the film Brightburn gives audiences their take through the prism of a horror film. In 2006 Toni and Kyle Breyer (Elizabeth Banks and David Denman) were trying to have a baby when a spaceship crashes near their farm. […]
After posting my thoughts on Star Trek: Discovery at the start of its second season, I said I would keep watching, hoping that things might turn out better than the mess that occurred with the show’s first season (although I didn’t hold out much hope that I would be a Discovery convert come the end […]
Men in Black was a pop culture phenomenon when it was first released in 1997. Since that time Sony has tried to recapture that magic and now they are attempting a soft-reboot. Molly Wright (Tessa Thompson) is a woman who had an encounter with the Men in Black as a child. She avoided being neuralized and […]