Category: Film Reviews

What a great movie! A Whodunnit in the classic mould, with Daniel Craig channeling Poirot with perfection. This is how cinema should be: great casting, great plot, great pacing. The denouement is clever, but a little drawn out if I’m being picky, but enjoyable nonetheless. I particularly liked the classic Christie retrospective at the end, explaining the clues the writers...

A simple premise really, but well paced and well executed. You could see the twist coming a mile off, but the quality of the direction and acting carried this through really well. An enjoyable 7.5/10.0

Great performances from Matt Damon and Christian Bale, against a well paced and well shot piece of cinema. Very enjoyable and entertaining. A very well deserved 8.5/10.0

What a stinker. Everyone looked as if they were chanting “remember the pay cheque” as they delivered their lines. This movie was bad from every angle. I’m being kind by giving this 3.0/10.0.

This is a WWII movie of the old school. It has the feel of 1960s war movies, and that is not a compliment. Cliche-ridden, with appalling dialogue and sterotypical heroes and villains, it is carried by spectacular special effects (planes, ships, and explosions) and surprisingly sometimes hampered by some truly amateurish and appalling special effects. This movie is terrible cinema,...

I am not great with heights. I have a particular fear of air balloons. In hindsight this was not the best movie for me to see. However, it’s a great film, with Felicity Jones stealing the show. Eddie Redmayne is good, but really just there as a foil for Felicity. It’s a fantastically well paced film, with horrifyingly well-done special...

Lots of silly nonsense in this movie, none of which detracts from a throughly enjoyable, well paced movie with cracking set pieces and special effects. Having Linda Hamilton and Arnie back on screen is always enjoyable. A great fun 7.5/10.0

Great performances by a great cast. Enjoyed this film a lot, although left the cinema even more disgusted with our political class than I was before. An enraged 8.0/10.0

Another film with bad reviews, but actually not bad. While not as good as the first one, it still maintains a lot of the humour and madcap storylines. Woody Harrelson and Emma Stone are matched by a very funny Zoey Deutch, and always good Jesse Eisenberg. Rosario Dawson, Luke Wilson and Thomas Middleditch are also very funny. An enjoyable comedic...

Well… the reviews for this were universally bad, so I went to the cinema with low expectations. What a pleasant surprise! I quite enjoyed this film, it has a good pace, some interesting ideas, and a few funny parts. Now, to be fair, the special effects are really appalling in places, and some the writing (or possibly editing) are lacking...