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
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
The best aspect of Pulp Fiction is not the well-plotted story, which is twisted and interwoven perfectly, or the fantastic cast, some of which deliver the best performances of the their careers, but instead its the simple, inconsequential writing. Director … Continue reading Pulp Fiction (1994) Review
This is It was always going to face a challenge. Michael Jackson was planning the tour to end all tours and this movie was to capture that experience, with the concert itself being the final centrepiece to the whole film. … Continue reading This is It (2009) Review
You have to be very selective when making comic book movies. With characters like Wonder Woman, that have been around so long that there is a lot of aspects to her character that work well on-screen and a lot which … Continue reading Wonder Woman 1984 (2020) Review
Documentaries are usually films with a message or a purpose. The purpose could be as simple as highlighting something, putting a spotlight on someone’s life, telling a story which people may not have been aware of or at their most … Continue reading Best of 2020: Time (2020) Review
If you take away the twisted, science-fiction aspect of Tenet, which makes it much more unique, what you have here is Christopher Nolan’s version of Bond. The first act is a spy movie and a very good one. John David … Continue reading Tenet (2020) Review
Casting Octavia Spencer as an obsessed, creepy and twisted lady in this Blumhouse horror is a masterstroke. Playing against type and clearly enjoying every moment of the role, Spencer brings the role the right level of disturbed menace, as she … Continue reading Ma (2019) Review
Steve McQueen tackles a lot of key issues regarding race with his series of movies entitled collectively, Small Axe. Lovers Rock seems to be an unusual entry in this series in that it doesn’t overtly tackle any serious racial issue … Continue reading Best of 2020: Small Axe – Lovers Rock (2020) Review
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