A Haunting in Venice marks the third time Kenneth Branagh directs and stars in a Poirot film. This time he adapts Hallowe’en Party and aims to make a leaner film. It’s 1947 and Hercule Poirot (Branagh) has entered retirement and lives in Venice. His bodyguard, Vitale Protfoglio (Riccardo Scamarcio) ensures no one comes close to the famous […]
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Transformers: Rise of the Beasts Review
Transformers is one of Paramount’s biggest and most popular franchises. After a five-year break the Autobots return and joined with the Maximals to save the world. Centuries ago the Maximals’ home world is devoured by Unicron (Colman Domingo) and the Maximals fled to Earth with the Transwrap Key. Noah Diaz (Anthony Ramos) is an unemployed ex-soldier […]
Minions: The Rise of Gru Review
Back in 2010 Illumination announced themselves with Despicable Me and the franchise has become the bedrock of the studio. A fifth film in the franchise has now been released with Minions: The Rise of Gru acting as a prequel. Gru (Steve Carell) is a boy with big dreams. He longs to be a supervillain and wants to join the Vicious 6, […]
Everything Everywhere All At Once Review
Everything Everywhere All At Once, the latest genre-defying masterpiece from filmmaking duo Daniels, is one of those movies that is next to impossible to write about. It’s so weird and so dense, with each new plot development somehow being stranger than the last. I don’t want to go into too much detail about its plotline, […]
Bondathon: Tomorrow Never Dies
Tomorrow Never Dies was a film rushed to capitalise on the success of Goldeneye. It seemed like it could have suffered from the issues that affected The Man with the Golden Gun with it being a notoriously troubled production. A British warship is sunk in the South China Sea. The British and Chinese dispute the events and look set […]
Gunpowder Milkshake Review
Gunpowder Milkshake is a part of the tread of mid-budget action movies. It was a film that has been released by Netflix in the US and Sky Cinema in the UK. Sam (Karen Gillan) is an assassin for The Firm. She’s given a job to get back some money stolen from The Firm. She ends up […]
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings Review
The Marvel Cinematic Universe enters the world of martial arts fantasy with Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings. Shaun (Simu Liu) is a valet in San Francisco whose friends think isn’t living up to his potential. Yet he harbours a deep dark secret because his real name is Shang-Chi and his father, Xu […]
Last Christmas Review
Tis the season for a Christmas rom-com and 2019’s offering sees Emilia Clarke and Henry Golding caught in the seasonal romanticising. Katarina (Clarke), or Kate for short is a 26-year-old woman whose life’s a steaming hot mess. She sofa-surfs from friend to friend’s home, shags her way through half of London, and basically chaotic and disorganised. Kate has […]
Star Trek: Discovery Season Two Review
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 […]
Crazy Rich Asians Review
Based on a novel by Kevin Kwan Crazy Rich Asians was a huge hit in the United States and the first major Hollywood movie since The Joy Luck Club to feature a predominately Asian cast, quickly becoming a cultural touchstone. Nick Young (Henry Golding) is the heir to the Young family fortune and the most eligible bachelor in Singapore. […]