Category: Film Reviews

A deeply dark film, chronicling the mental illness of Arthur from years of abuse as a child, lack of support from his mother, and abandonment by his father. It’s difficult to know what is real in the film, and what is Arthur’s fantasy. Deeply disturbing, but powerful. An unsettling 8.5/10.0

What a crazy, funny, gory, ridiculous, tense, jumpy, nonsense of a film. It takes the trope of the “trapped in a house and someone is trying to kill me” and merges it with the (cracking) idea of the 1%-ers being pawns of Satan, and gives us a really dark, really funny, slapstick of a movie. This won’t be for everyone,...

Hmmm… an odd one this. The science is interesting, but largely uneventful and boring; the family drama is also largely uneventful and boring. There are no peaks to the story or the drama, it just plods on at a slow pace that leaves you not bored, but not particularly entertained either. The best I can say is that I didn’t...

You know those films that get universally terrible reviews, but when you go to see them you have a great time, and you marvel about how anyone could think otherwise? This isn’t one of those films. What a stinker. Terrible writing, direction so poor it looks like a cinematography student’s final year project, and even Sylvester Stallone looked bored, turning...

An interesting film, far more violent that I expected. A good (not great) story, with decent performances from the three leads. Elizabeth Moss is fantastic as you would expect, and Tiffany Haddish and Elizabeth McCarthy both turn in strong performances. A solid 7.0/10.0

An entertaining film, with a great performances by Jennifer Lopez and Constance Wu. It’s a pretty slow burn, a character piece rather than plot driven, but I liked it. I give this an enjoyable 7.5/10.0.

A wonderful demonstration of the cinematographer’s art, full of vibrancy and colour, evoking a tangible feeling of the 1960s. However, it’s also not a conherent story, very flabby at the start (30-40 minutes could have been cut easily), and with a typically tangential ending. There are clearly different stories in this movie, only linked together in the most tenuous of...

The reviews I’d seen of this film before going to the cinema were pretty poor. Actually, it’s quite an entertaining film! It was exactly what I expected, with Gerard Butler doing a decent job, and Morgan Freeman as great as ever. The writing is fine (though saying that, you will work out the plot, and who is good and bad,...

A cheap, weak film, with terrible special effects that would only be credible to the youngest of children. It has only the most nebulous of link to the Fast and Furious franchise, and as such shows itself to be a shameless attempt to make money from it. A waste (and this is saying something) of the talents of The Rock...

A strong cast leads this based-on-a-true-story film. Chris Evans, the always excellent Michael Kenneth Williams (Omar comin’, yo), and Ben Kingsley of course. Tense, touching, exciting, this is an entertaining film that will at the end leave you with tears in your eyes. I enjoyed this film, and give it 7.0/10.0