Some films don’t work; you can almost forgive them for their flaws. Then some work so well you wonder where they are going and then deliver a flimsy ending that makes you want to boo the screen. Eileen is one such movie. It builds slowly, giving the audience a detailed character study brimming with style,…
Tag: thriller
Saltburn
Writer and director Emerald Fennell’s debut movie was the darkly comic Promising Young Woman, with Carey Mulligan as a woman who pretends to be drunk to ensnare men who are willing to take advantage of her. The film won Best Original Screenplay for Fennell. Now she is back with Saltburn, or what could be described…
A Haunting in Venice
Hercule Poirot and his double moustache are back for a third thriller from Agatha Christie, and unlike Murder on the Orient Express and Death on the Nile, director, producer and star Kenneth Branagh has gone for a story not previously filmed, and in a sense, this is all the better for the movie, as this…
The Nun II
Do you remember the 2018 Conjuring spin-off, The Nun? No, neither do I. The film was obviously a success, otherwise Warner Bros wouldn’t produce this sequel, which continues the story set up in the original film. If you can’t remember that film, then you are going to be a little confused, for while this could…
The Equalizer 3
Robert McColl is back in Antoine Fuqua’s third and what promises to be his final Equalizer movie. The quiet, former intelligence officer who takes on the big guy for the little one finds himself taking on his biggest threat yet: the mafia. While this will never be groundbreaking or change the face of action thrillers,…
Oppenheimer
Christopher Nolan has become as big a name as the movies he directs. You know that when you see one of his films, you will get quality, a filmmaker who produces thought-provoking, often head-scratching tales. After his last movie, the complicated Tenet, we now get a biopic, of sorts, in the story of the Father…
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
As a film critic, you must often stay completely impartial and never go into a film with high expectations or preconceived ideas of what you will be getting from the film. However, in the case of the seventh Mission: Impossible film, Dead Reckoning Part One, I was excited as a little schoolboy going to an…
Fast X
Trying to review Fast X is like copying the reviews of past Fast & Furious films. They have found a format that audiences enjoy and so why change things? The only real difference is that this is the start of what was supposed to be a two-part story that would end the series (although that…
John Wick: Chapter 4
A couple of words of warning if you plan to see the fourth instalment of the John Wick franchise. Firstly, catching up might be worthwhile if you haven’t seen the previous films. You me be confused about this ever-growing world that has developed since the original film. Secondly, make sure you go to the toilet…
Scream VI
While in the cinema foyer, waiting to watch Scream VI, one of the managers asked me if I was prepared to be scared! My immediate reaction was, “from a Scream movie?” Scream was never a scary movie but a film that parodied other slasher movies. That was when Wes Craven was at the helm, and…
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…
The Menu
A few weeks ago, we had the satire Triangle of Sadness, which depicted the rich and wealthy having a time on board a luxury yacht. Now we have The Menu, a perfect companion to the movie, as mentioned earlier, in which we have an exclusive restaurant for the super-rich, which turns out to be a…
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