The thought of watching a movie about a man who wants to be the face of table tennis in the 1950s might not sound like the most exciting experience, but this is far more than just that. Marty Supreme is from director Josh Safdie, part of the Safdie brothers who brought us the intense Uncut…
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Song Sung Blue
Trailers can be very deceiving. Take, for example, the one for The Holdovers. It doesn’t sell the film well, and yet it’s one of the best Christmas movies around. The same could be said of Song Sung Blue, a biopic of a married couple who became a Neil Diamond tribute act. It doesn’t do the…
Peter Hujar’s Day
There is never an issue if you see a film about someone you’ve never heard of before, as, if you become invested in the movie, you want to find out more about them. Peter Hujar was a gay photographer from the 70s, whom I didn’t know a thing about when entering Peter Hujar’s Day, and…
Anaconda
How do you reboot a series that was so bad, it was almost a parody of itself? You re-imagine it into a comedy-adventure. That is what has happened to Anaconda, the 1997 action monster movie starring Jennifer Lopez, Ice Cube, and an awful performance by Jon Voight. Instead of going for a remake, you approach…
Avatar: Fire And Ash
There aren’t many film franchises where I could say I don’t care. Some are bad but bearable, while others worsen progressively. Still, James Cameron’s Avatar films just don’t do anything for me, to the point that even though cinema is going through a terrible patch at the moment, I want the third entry, Fire and…
Fackham Hall
Earlier this year, we had the reboot of The Naked Gun, and while brimming with laughs, it wasn’t always successful, as there were far too many moments when the comedy was lacking. Now, the Brits are taking a chance at spoof comedies with Fackham Hall, which pokes fun at Downton Abbey, and while it might…
Eternity
They often say that they don’t make them like they used to. Once in a while, a film tries to debunk that accusation. Eternity is one such film, a screwball romantic comedy that takes the beats and rhythms of past movies and gives them a modern edge. While it might not be entirely successful, you…
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
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…
Wicked: For Good
Last year, we had the first part of an epic musical adaptation of Wicked, the hugely successful Broadway and West End hit. Now we have the sequel, Wicked: For Good, or as it should be called, Wicked Act Two, for this is precisely what it is. The first film was predominantly the first act, with…
The Ice Tower
One of my fears about cinema has always been the lack of originality and the way movie makers rely on stories already told. This could be said of The Ice Tower, an unusual retelling of The Snow Queen, which has already inspired a huge adaptation in Disney’s Frozen. Yet this is as far removed from…
The Running Man
At the height of his career, Arnold Schwarzenegger starred in a sci-fi action movie called The Running Man, which was based on a story by Richard Bachman, who turned out to be Stephen King. It was a pale imitation of the original story, and so King decided to withhold his name from the material. Now,…
Now You See Me: Now You Don’t
Back in 2013, a starry-stacked heist movie involving magicians appeared without much fanfare, even though it included big names like Michael Caine. Then the completely forgettable sequel came out, with Daniel Radcliffe as the villain, and no one even remembers it being released. So it’s astounding to see that a third film has escaped and…
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