April 2, 2021 Film Review: Just Like Heaven Old enough to be a classic now, well cast, well paced, feel good. Reese Witherspoon and Mark Ruffalo work well together. 8.5/10.0 Categories Film Reviews
March 13, 2021 Film Review: What Men Want A fine remake of the Mel Gibson / Helen Hunt vehicle. Not great cinema, but I enjoyed it. 7.0/10.0 Categories Film Reviews
February 21, 2021 Film Review: The Map of Tiny Perfect Things What a lovely film, bittersweet and funny, I enjoyed it a lot. Well cast, well written, perfectly paced in a slow, meandering but fulfilling way. I can’t think of a mis-step, it took me on an emotional journey and I loved it. 9.0/10.0 Categories Film Reviews
February 14, 2021 Film Review: Midnight at the Magnolia A slushy, lightweight romance movie of the Hallmark genre. The acting is not great, the writing predictable. This is not great cinema. Don’t judge me, I enjoyed it. 7.0/10.0 Categories Film Reviews
February 8, 2021 Film Review: Next Another older movie. Nick Cage, impossibly cast as Jessica Biel’s love interest while looking more like her weird uncle, sees glimpses of the future and helps avoid disaster. A fun film, but the weird uncle thing taints the pacing. 7.0/10.0 Categories Film Reviews
February 6, 2021 Film Review: The Dig Excellent performances from Ralph Fiennes and Carey Mulligan, this is an excellent movie, well paced, beautifully shot, and I loved the note at the end. Bravo Basil. 8.5/10.0 Categories Film Reviews
February 6, 2021 Film Review: Greenland Gerard Butler and Morena Baccarin (who will forever be Inara Serra in my mind) turn in good performances in this action-romp. It’s a fairly linear telling of a story, unlike the better 2012, but I enjoyed it. They did kind of rip-off the last scene from 2012 though, or maybe it’s an hommage. 7.5/10.0 Categories Film Reviews
February 4, 2021 Film Review: Two Weeks Notice Another old movie, and one looking its age. However, it’s doing so in the look-at-that-old-car and wow-what-a-funny-mobile-phone way, rather than the cringing racism and casual misogyny of films like Animal House and the like. This is a feel-good romance in the classic sense, that works as well through the lens of 2021 as it did in 2002. Hugh Grant and... Categories Film Reviews
February 3, 2021 Film Review: Outside The Wire I had high hopes for this given the great cast, but what a disappointment. There are spoilers coming, so beware. Firstly the positives: great special effects, great casting, interesting premise. The bad: what starts off as an unsettling view of war-at-a-distance by showing us a candy-eating drone pilot making casual life-or-death decisions, has a crisis of confidence, muddling its message... Categories Film Reviews
January 17, 2021 Film Review: Wild Target When I first saw this listed on Netflix I thought it was a new film, but alas no. Turns out I’d seen it before, back in 2010. Still, great performances, good casting and writing, a few laughs. Bill Nighy and Emily Blunt, what’s not to like? Overall, not bad at all. 7.0/10.0 Categories Film Reviews