Julia Ducournau is one of the most original horror directors around, having served up the brilliant Raw and the bonkers body horror Titane. There was excitement when her new film, Alpha, was announced —an examination of a family in crisis, dealing with trauma, and an allegory for the AIDS epidemic. However, what starts off with…
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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…
Napoleon
My partner’s son is an enormous Napoleon fan, having studied everything about the French leader. When asked what he thought about the film, he replied: “It’s weird!” I suppose that’s one way of looking at it. When asked if he could expand, he began listing all the inaccurate things about the history. We know this…
The Mauritanian
Director: Kevin Macdonald Starring: Tahar Rahim, Jodie Foster, Benedict Cumberbatch, Shailene Woodley, Zachary Levi Written by: Rory Haines, Sohrab Noshirvani, (and screen story) M.B. Traven, (based upon the book “Guantánamo Diary”) Mohamedou Ould Slahi and Larry Siems Running Time: 129 mins Cert: 15 Release date: 2nd April 2021 Each year a theme seems to run…
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