Category: Film Reviews

What a refreshing change of pace! A fantastic foreign language movie getting well deserved recognition. The casting is fantastic, the writing tight and clever, the humour comic and dark. I thoroughly enjoyed this film. A well deserved 8.5/10.0.

How to describe this movie? Homage to 1940s mystery cinema? Drug-fuelled nightmare. Just plain weird? All of those things. I’m sure it’s trendy in an emporer’s-new-clothes kind of way to say this is an awesome film and “not something the general film goer will appreciate”, but I think this is an indulgent turd. A very disappointing and disturbing 3.0/10.0.

A good film, tough subject matter, powerful, left me feeling uneasy. Great cast and performances. A difficult 8.0/10.0.

Ah nostalgia! This is not a great movie by the standards of great cinema, but it’s great fun and good to see back on the big screen. An enjoyable 7.5/10.0

Hugh Grant was really good, I was not expecting him to play a credible lowlife. Michelle Dockery was good, but I can only see her as Lady Mary, so it didn’t work for me (my fault). She was fantastic in Godless, so not sure why I wasn’t getting it here. Overall, a good film. A diamond geezer 7.5 monkeys ahhhht a...

A good film, not a great story. Visually stunning, a great demonstration of the film makers art, but it has some odd lead casting. To be fair, it is a also bit flat and/or clumsy in places, particularly with some scenery / lighting. I was expecting higher, but 7.5/10.0

What a fantastic start to 2020 movie-watching! A very funny, almost madcap, yet very sad and disturbing film. A great movie. A dark but fun 9.0/10.0

Throughly enjoyed this film. It was a bittersweet end to a saga I’ve loved almost my entire life. Sure, there were some dark periods in past movies (Jar Jar Binks…) but not here. This is a great movie that delicately ties up the series, with a nod (and several awesome cameos from stars of the original 1977 movie) to the...

This is the kind of movie that makes you smile in the first few minutes, and keeps you smiling all the way through, with some laugh-out-loud moments as well. Great writing and pacing, great casting and acting, and a little sentimental. What more could you ask for! An easy 8.0/10.0

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...