Peter Landesman’s first stab at directing surely won’t be his last. Not with new film Parkland on the top of his IMDB page. The dramatic film on the assassination of JFK, spins the well-told tale with a refreshing panache and left the audience at the London Film Festival premiere in need of a good sit down … Continue reading
When Nick (Jim Broadbent) and Meg (Lindsay Duncan), spend a weekend in Paris to celebrate 30 years of wedlock, their romantic illusions are splintered after realising the hotel once used for their days of courting is less romantic than remembered. Determined to make the most of it, Meg drags her reluctant husband along for a … Continue reading
You’d be hard fetched to find a film with someone from Flight Of The Conchords, American Pie and Hollyoaks, but somehow the brains behind Austenland have managed to make these planets collide. It’s as if they’ve played Chatroulette with the entire database of IMDB. Or maybe it was BOGOF on the casting agent’s books, and … Continue reading
Bruce Robertson (James McAvoy) is a detective sergeant who’s about as PC as a priest in a porn shop. As Bruce ticks his way down the seven deadly sins list, it’s clear he’s not only struggling with where to get his next hedonistic hit, but also with the demons picking at his fraying mental health. … Continue reading
You don’t have to like baseball to appreciate the triumph in this true story. 42 isn’t so much about which team won on the pitch, but more about who came up top in the struggle for equality during a time when America was coming to terms with black and white being equal. Major League Baseball … Continue reading
If the title hadn’t already given it away, you should know that Silence is about the refuge and relationship with sound. Otherwise, it’s just a beautiful film about a bearded man skulking about the Irish countryside and confusing the locals with a furry stick for a microphone. This is cinematic art at it’s most lush. … Continue reading
As someone who grew up going to the likes of Glasto for my musical and hedonistic kicks, London festivals take some persuasion. Call me a snob, but I prefer the sight of the rolling hills of Somerset over the view of John Lewis. However, the draw of Jay-Z and Kendrick Lemar was enough to lure … Continue reading
Good Vibrations is an energetic biopic of the charismatic Pied Piper of punk Terri Hooley. 70’s Belfast was not a pretty place, but under the rubble of a crumbling war-torn city, Terri was on a one man mission to drown out the sounds of warring chaos with some very loud music. Terri’s unbridled love of … Continue reading
Firstly, Lovelace isn’t a porno. I repeat. It is not a porno. Unless you’re the kind of person who gets their kicks out of watching a woman psychologically and physically oppressed, which if you are, you shouldn’t be reading this, you should be locked up somewhere dark and damp. Linda Lovelace will strike a chord … Continue reading
I was reluctant to read any review that basically summarised The Great Gatsby as ‘a bit OTT’ as that would surely be missing the point. Of course it was going to be as garish as a kebab shop at Christmas – this is a Baz Luhrmann film, not Emmerdale. You don’t go to a dubstep … Continue reading
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