Francis Ford Coppola is regarded as one of the great film directors. His track record proves that case: The Godfather, The Godfather Part II, The Conversation, and Apocalypse Now are all at the top or near the top of most people’s greatest movies ever made list. Not having a major release for some time now,…
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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…
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…
Borderlands
Going into Borderlands, I knew very little. I knew it was based on a video game, but that was about it. I have never played the game or even seen the game. I knew it was directed by Eli Roth, who is usually associated with very gory horrors and was responsible for the torture porn…
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…
Deadpool & Wolverine
It almost seems a miracle that Deadpool 3 got to the screen. Originally announced when the Marvel character was still at 20th Century Fox, it was shelved during the deal with Disney and questions were thrown up as to whether the House of Mouse would allow such a sweary character into the Marvel Cinematic Universe….
A Quiet Place: Day One
John Krasinski’s sci-fi horror A Quiet Place is possibly one of the best films of the 21st Century. A gripping, relentlessly tense terror that left audiences leaving the cinema with full pots of popcorn for fear of making a noise. He then gave us the decent sequel, A Quiet Place Part II. Now, with Kransinski…
Kinds Of Kindness
Yorgos Lanthimos has to be one of the most exciting directors. His films push the boundaries, not only in moviemaking but also story telling. With his last hit, the brilliant Poor Things, still ringing in our heads with its bizarre tale and strong visuals, we now have Kinds of Kindness, another head-spinning movie broken into…
Inside Out 2
Things haven’t been great for Pixar in recent years. Three of their best films (Soul, Luca, and Turning Red) were sent straight to Disney+ due to the pandemic, while their recent cinema releases, Lightyear and Elemental, failed to ignite that flame they used to have. Now, they have turned to one of their best films,…
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
When you think of great directors, you may think of Hitchcock, Spielberg, Scorsese, and David Lean, to name a few. Not many mention the name George Miller on that list. Maybe it’s time we did because with his latest film, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, he has definitely cemented his name as one of the…
IF
John Krasinski comes across as a really decent bloke. He came to fame as Jim in the American version of The Office. He helped us through lockdown with his Good News videos, made one of the best horrors of the 21st century in A Quiet Place, and is married to Emily Blunt, making them one…
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