Not many directors whose names are attached to a movie make you sit up and take note. Spielberg, Scorsese and Nolan all have that power. Now we have Bong Joon Ho, who gave us the masterpiece Parasite. He is a modern filmmaker who instantly draws you to his movies. Just from his past reputation and…
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The Monkey
Last year, Osgood Perkins produced one of the creepiest films, the psychological horror Longlegs. Continuing his trait with horror, we now have The Monkey, based on a short story by Stephen King and as different a film as you could get from his previous outing. While Longlegs is a film built around atmosphere and being…
Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy
It was 24 years ago that Helen Fielding’s singleton creation hit the big screen and became a massive success for fans of romantic comedies. Now, after three previous movies, Bridget Jones is back, with what has been reported to be the final episode in her misadventures with life and love in Mad About The Boy….
A Real Pain
Last week, we had We Live in Time, which worked thanks to the electric chemistry between the film’s leads, Andrew Garfield and Florence Pugh. This week, another film that relies on perfect chemistry between the leads but in very different ways. Jesse Eisenberg’s A Real Pain is a comedy-drama focusing on cousins on a journey…
Red One
I will admit it: I’m not a fan of Christmas movies. It’s always been an issue for me to find the balance between sentimentality and schmaltz. It’s a Wonderful Life is a giant in the genre, as is Die Hard, Elf and a small handful of others. The rest seem lazy, trite, or even apparent…
Paddington In Peru
Many consider Paddington 2 one of the greatest family movies ever made. It is a dazzling mix of slapstick comedy, unexpected star turns, and a big heart filling the cinema with pure joy. A third adventure from the Bear was always going to be a hard act to follow, especially when the main drivers of…
Nightbitch
If you are looking for something slightly unusual for your cinematic pleasure, I suggest you check out Nightbitch, a simple tale of a woman struggling to cope with motherhood. Doesn’t sound that unusual? This film will take you to a world where you must change to manage. Not in the way you would think. Marielle…
Anora
Sean Baker is one of the most exciting filmmakers around. He takes characters who fall outside the norm and gives them a voice, whether they be streetwalkers in Tangerines, a single mother living in a motel in The Florida Project or a porn actor in Red Rocket. Now he turns his attention to a sex…
The Wild Robot
When Dreamworks entered the animation world with Antz in 1998, they were considered a competitor to Disney. Over the years, they have had various degrees of success with movies like Shrek, How To Train Your Dragon, and Kung Fu Panda, but they have never managed to capture the same magic that the mighty animation giants…
The Substance
I had heard much about this new sci-fi horror from French director Coraline Fargeat, who gave us the 2017 horror Revenge. This award-winner at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, taking best screenplay, had quite a few walkouts due to the nature of the content. The talk was a body horror that goes to the extreme…
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
It has been a long time since Tim Burton made a decent movie. Not that his films have been terrible. They haven’t been up there with his early work, like the Batman movies or Edward Scissorhands. So, returning to the character of one of his most inventive works seems a good idea if he is…
Harold And The Purple Crayon
In my distant memory, I recall reading a book about a boy who had a magic crayon that he could draw anything, and it would appear. When Harold and the Purple Crayon started with a short animated pre-credit sequence, those memories came flooding back, so there was an element of nostalgia that I could at…
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