Las Vegas has been used as a backdrop to so many movies, mainly for the glitz and glamour. The Last Showgirl, from Gia Coppola, the granddaughter of legendary director Francis Ford Coppola, has taken a different approach. This is a film about the death of old Vegas, with the kind of cabaret show that is…
Tag: Kiernan Shipka
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…
Longlegs
It seems to be a common factor in horror movies to put, as part of their advertising campaign, that their film is the scariest movie of all time, of the year, or of the week. The truth is none of them are that scary, and you leave the cinema feeling slightly cheated. Longlegs has done…
