It might be coincidental, but in the same week as the release of the Agatha Christie 4K box set of her classic 1970s murder-mystery movies, with massive stars as suspects, we get the third in Rian Johnson’s Christie-style thriller, which started with Knives Out back in 2019 and continued with Glass Onion in 2022. Wake…
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Alien: Romulus
Ever since Ridley Scott’s 1979 game-changing Alien hit our screens, which managed the hybrid of horror and sci-fi so successfully, the movie has spawned seven other films, with only one getting close to the brilliance of the original, the 1986 James Cameron direct sequel, Aliens. The rest may have been flawed but fascinating or down-right…
Civil War
Cinema can be a powerful source of projecting what is happening today. Looking back to the 70s, one can see the paranoia of post-Vietnam and the 80s for its Regean-ite freedom and greed of the rich. Now, we are in a world where war seems to fill the news agenda, and America is divided politically….
Priscilla
You seem to wait ages for an Elvis biopic, and then two come along quickly. Actually, that’s not exactly true, for the second release, Priscilla, is more about his former wife than about the King. Yet, suppose Baz Luhrmann’s barn-storming 2022 film was about the showman. Sofia Coppola’s film is about the private life, or…
On The Basis Of Sex
Director: Mimi Leder Starring: Felicity Jones, Armie Hammer, Justin Theroux, Sam Waterston, Kathy Bates, Cailee Spaeny, Jack Reynor, Stephen Root, Chris Mulkey Written by Daniel Stiepleman Running Time: 120 mins Cert: 12A Release date: 22nd February 2019 Last week saw the release of A Private War, the story of the powerful and influential war correspondent…
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