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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The Thursday Murder Club
Richard Osman, TV presenter and producer, turned his hand to writing and achieved international success with his murder mystery, The Thursday Murder Club. Becoming a phenomenon, Steven Spielberg instantly bought the rights, brought on board Home Alone director Chris Columbus, and assembled a cast to die for, entering into a deal with Netflix to present…
Chicken Run: Dawn Of The Nugget
Aardman Animation has always been at the forefront of clay animation, but what puts them at the front of the filmmaking process is their ability to use whimsical humour, something that suits the Britishness of the products. In 2000, they produced Chicken Run, an affectionate pastiche of The Great Escape but with chickens. Twenty-three years…
Dungeons And Dragons: Honour Among Thieves
If the first blockbuster (usually released during the Easter season) is good, then the rest of the year will have some decent films to enjoy. Last year, we had Ambulance and Morbius, and, as we know, the movie last year wasn’t up to much of a high standard. Going into Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among…
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
Carlo Collodi’s 1883 novel Pinocchio, has been a source of many a film adaptation. Disney’s 1940 version is probably the most famous, although their recent remake by Robert Zemeckis is a pointless exercise. Now, merely months after that version, Academy award-wining director Guillermo del Toro has delivered a stop-motion animated film that takes the premise…
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
Rian Johnson is a man who has the perfect answer for his critics. After he was slated for making the second in the new Star Wars trilogy, The Last Jedi, Johnson made Knives Out, an old-fashioned whodunnit with a delicious cast and a lead character who could easily be called the new Hercules Poirot. 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…
Don’t Look Up
Director: Adam McKay Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lawrence, Meryl Streep, Cate Blanchett, Rob Morrow, Jonah Hill, Mark Rylance, Tyler Perry, Timothée Chalamet, Ron Perlman, Ariana Grande Written by: (also story) Adam McKay and (account) David Sirota Running Time: 138 mins Cert: 15 Release date: 10th December 2021 If you have been watching social media recently,…
Stillwater
Director: Tom McCarthy Starring: Matt Damon, Abigail Breslin, Camille Cottin, Lilou Siauvaud Written by: Tom McCarthy, Marcus Hinchey, Thomas Bidegain and Noe Debre Running Time: 139 mins Cert: 15 Release date: 6th August 2021 Stillwater is the new film by Tom McCarthy, who directed the Oscar-winning Spotlight. Taking the story directly from the news pages,…
The Trial Of The Chicago 7
Director: Aaron Sorkin Starring: Eddie Redmayne, Alex Sharp, Sacha Baron Cohen, Jeremy Strong, John Carroll Lynch, Mark Rylance, Frank Langella, Michael Keaton, Ben Shenkman, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II Written by: Aaron Sorkin Running Time: 129 mins Cert: 15 Release date: 2 October 2020 The Trail of the Chicago 7 is a courtroom drama based on the real case brought by the US…
TV and Streaming – Sunday 22nd March 2020
Welcome to a new daily service in which I will be pointing you in the right direction to movies on the streaming services, Amazon Prime, Netflix and Now TV (from Tuesday Disney +) as well as movies being screened on terrestrial TV. Each day I will choose two streaming movies from each and as many…
The Informer
Director: Andrea Di Stefano Starring: Joe Kinnaman, Rosamund Pike, Common, Ana de Armas, Clive Owen, Sam Spruell, Eugene Lipinski, Karma Meyer Written by: Andrea Di Stefano, Rowan Joffe, Matt Cook, (based on the novel Three Second) Anders Roslund and Borge Hellstrom Running Time: 113 mins Cert: 15 Release date: 30th August 2019 You can tell…
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