Fifty Shades of Grey

Materialists

Celine Song burst onto the scene with her beautiful, poignant love story, Past Lives, in 2023. Anticipation for her follow-up was high. Materialists is a different love story focusing on another triangle like her previous film, but this time in a very different world and with a different attitude. However, what sounds like a good…

Babygirl

You can tell that the holiday family movies have been replaced by award-longing films when the opening week of January has proven with Nosferatu, We Live in Time and A Real Pain. Now we have Babygirl, a movie that has had a lot of word of mouth, mainly because of the subject matter of S&M….

Madame Web

Another week, another superhero movie, part of the Spider-Man Cinematic Universe. Madame Web is one of the lesser known characters from Marvel and on evidence of the movie, I don;t think her popularity will rise. This is a mess of a film that seems to have a misleading trailer, a script that, in places, is…

Book Club: The Next Chapter

I am angry. Cinemas are really struggling to get bums on seats at the moment. Most of the films in the top ten charts are making less than £100,000, and yet, instead of the film companies trying their best to put out their finest products, we are delivered utter tripe such as Book Club: The…

Where The Crawdads Sing

Delia Owen’s Where The Crawdads Sing is a literary phenomenon. Selling over 12 million copies, it was inevitable that film companies would turn the book into a movie. The book is now in cinemas thanks to producer Reece Witherspoon and her Happy Sunshine company. Having never read the book, I have to admit that on…

Suspiria

Director: Luca Guadagnino Starring: Dakota Johnson, Tilda Swinton, Mia Goth, Chloe Grace Moretz, Jessica Harper, Angela Winkler, Alek Wek, Elena Fokina, Malgosia Bela Written by: David Kajganich, (based on characters created) Dario Argento and Daria Nicolodi Running Time: 152 mins Cert: 18 Release date: 16th November 2018 When word came out that Dario Argento’s seminal…

Book Club

Director: Bill Holderman Starring: Diane Keaton, Jane Fonda, Candice Bergen, Mary Steenburgen, Andy Garcia, Craig T. Nelson, Don Johnson, Alicia Silverstone, Richard Dreyfuss, Ed Begley Jr Written by: Bill Holderman and Erin Simms Running Time: 104 mins Cert: 12A Release date: 1st June 2018 With the World Cup just around the corner, for most of…

Fifty Shades Freed

Director: James Foley Starring: Dakota Johnson, Jamie Dornan, Eric Johnson, Eloise Mumford, Rita Ora, Luke Grimes, Marcia Gay Harden Written by: Niall Leonard and (based on the book) E.L. James Running Time: 104 mins Cert: 18 Release date: 9th February 2018 Firstly, let’s have a moment to celebrate. This is the last of the series…

Fifty Shades Darker

Director: James Foley Starring: Dakota Johnson, Jamie Dornan, Kim Basinger, Marcia Gay Harden, Eric Johnson, Eloise Mumford, Bella Heathcote, Rita Ora, Luke Grimes. Written by: Niall Leonard and (based on the book) E.L. James Running Time: 118 mins Cert: 18 Release date: 10th February 2017 Ah, you cannot beat a love story to melt your…

A Bigger Splash

Director: Luca Guadagnino Starring: Tilda Swinton, Ralph Fiennes, Dakota Johnson, Matthias Schoenaerts, Aurore Clement Written by: David Kajganich and (story) Alain Page Running Time: 124 mins Cert: 15 Release date: 12th February 2016 There are some films that define description. You sit and you watch and you become absorbed by its splendour and beauty, marvelling…

Director: Sam Taylor-Johnson Starring: Dakota Johnson, Jaime Dornan, Jennifer Ehle, Eloise Mumford, Marcia Gay Harden Written by: Kelly Marcel and (based on the novel) E.L. James Running Time: 125 mins Cert: 18 Release date: 13th February 2015 The most hyped movie of the year (it won’t be the last) has finally arrived and after being…