You’d be forgiven for thinking that Cruella is a cheap cash-grab movie which is shamelessly cashing-in on the well-known name of one of Disney’s most iconic villains. Fortunately, that is not the case and Cruella is a movie with some … Continue reading Cruella (2021) Review
Who better to play a man who could be The Devil than Al Pacino. The Devil’s Advocate lets Al Pacino go full Pacino and is all the better for it. This is Pacino having fun, playing up the loud, brash … Continue reading The Devil’s Advocate (1997) Review
The success of The Assistant comes in the ordinary. The film portrays a regular day in Julia Garner’s Jane, as she gets to her job as an assistant for a movie, before everyone else, carrying out the mundane but apparently … Continue reading The Assistant (2019) Review
The irony about Hitchcock is that it is a movie so unlike how its subject, Alfred Hitchcock, would make. That isn’t to say this is a bad movie but more that it doesn’t do anything extraordinary in its retelling of … Continue reading Hitchcock (2012) Review
Dick Johnson is Dead is a strange documentary with a bizarre premise. The idea is that Kirsten Johnson (documentary maker) is helping her father prepare for the end of his life, linked to Alzheimer’s, through staging elaborate deaths for him. … Continue reading Dick Johnson is Dead (2020) Review
2020 seemed like the perfect time to bring Borat back. The world is very different place compared to the one Borat was exploring in 2006 and this is none more the case in America. It seems quite fitting then that … Continue reading Borat Subsequent Moviefilm (2020) Review
As a highlight of the some of the worst of American society while managing to bring the comedy successfully, there are few movies that do this as well as Borat. Its easy to forget, especially with the character becoming such … Continue reading Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2006) Review
To begin, lets get this out the way, Zack Snyder’s cut of Justice League is better than the “Joss Whedon Version.” I’ll obviously explain why but it begins with the fact that Zack Snyder is afforded much more time than … Continue reading Zack Snyder’s Justice League (2021) Review
Translating a theatre production to the big screen is always a challenge. What you usually find is that the story is solid, the acting is fantastic but what is left is a very self-contained, wordy and overly-dramatic movie which lacks … Continue reading A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) Review
John Cusack has never been cooler than he is in Grosse Pointe Blank. Playing a hitman having a mid-life crisis, Cusack manages to balance a neurotic character, who could come across as whiny and annoying but doesn’t, with the random … Continue reading Grosse Pointe Blank (1997) Review
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