One thing you’ll notice very quickly about Vice is that it is not your usual biopic. Rather than take a straight, linear look at the life of Dick Cheney, Vice plays with the usual biopic tropes slightly. It mixes up the … Continue reading Oscars 2019: Vice (2018) Review
It is easy to see Can You Ever Forgive Me? as being a Melissa McCarthy “serious” performance. It could easily overshadow the whole movie had she not done such a good job of disconnecting herself from the flamboyant, larger than life characters … Continue reading Oscars 2019: Can You ever Forgive Me? (2018) Review
As events continue through The Wife, you soon realise that you’ve seen this story before. To tell you where would be to give too much of the eventual story and it’s revelations away but once those moments do occur, you soon … Continue reading Oscars 2019: The Wife (2018) Review
The story of reluctant, racist white person develops respect for black person through forced social encounter is one that has been done to death. Driving Miss Daisy is such a movie that springs to mind and although the intentions behind this … Continue reading Oscars 2019: Green Book (2018) Review
Whether you attribute it to the #metoo movement or to the growing demand for fairer involvement by women in the entertainment industry or whether it would have happened regardless: You can use The Favourite as an example of a great … Continue reading Oscars 2019: The Favourite (2018) Review
Ben and Dave take a look at the 1970s and the best movies this decade produced. Well Ben does… Instead Dave takes a look at the best titles of this decade and creates his own movies (it has to be heard … Continue reading The Views from the Sofa Podcast Season 3 Episode 3: Best of the 70s
BlacKkKlansman has the kind of plot point that is almost too good to be true: A black man manages to infiltrate the KKK. It is even better when you realise that this is based on a true story and although it … Continue reading Oscars 2019: BlacKkKlansman (2018) Review
You’d be forgiven for thinking Widows was going to be a high-end heist movie. It is directed by Steve McQueen who has made a name for major titles including Shame and 12 Years a Slave. The cast is fantastic, from heavyweights … Continue reading Best of the Rest 2018: Widows (2018) Review
Netflix seems like the perfect fit for Annihilation. It is a movie that would struggle with a traditional classification and certainly doesn’t fit into any genre comfortably. It can be described as a clever science-fiction movie but one that touches upon … Continue reading Best of the Rest 2018: Annihilation (2018) Review
The concept of a whole movie done entirely from a computer screen is not a new one. Although not loved by many, I enjoyed the horror movie Unfriended which used the same storytelling device that Searching uses. Searching is not a … Continue reading The Best of the Rest 2018: Searching (2018) Review
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