Many films have tried (and seemingly failed) to capture what Love, Simon does so perfectly. This is a movie about “coming-out” and the angst of being a closeted homosexual, while you’re at high school, and it approaches the subject in a … Continue reading The Best of the Rest 2018: Love, Simon (2018) Review
In America (and I’m sure many other countries too) Mr. Rogers is a TV icon. He plays a key part for many people’s childhoods, has been parodied and paid homage to many times over and entered American TV folklore. As for … Continue reading Best of the Rest 2018: Won’t You Be My Neighbor? (2018) Review
New Year so a new season of the Views from the Sofa Podcast. If you’ve never listened before then get involved. We start off a brand new season with a look back at 2018 and a look forward to 2019. This … Continue reading VftS: The Movie Podcast – Season 3 Episode 1: The Reboot
When people talk about screen chemistry then they should look at the work that Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga put in on A Star is Born. They hold this movie together so well that you are captivated from the moment the … Continue reading Review Bonanza: A Star is Born (2018) Review
Blockers is a comedy which will surprise many people. On first glance it seems like the usual, offensive, immature humour you can come to expect from a movie dealing with teenagers, out of touch parents and sex but there is a … Continue reading Review Bonanza: Blockers (2018) Review
Sometimes you are just in the mood for crass, obnoxious and offensive toilet humour with very little redeeming quality than it appealing to the most immature part of your funny bone. When this is the case, you could do a lot … Continue reading Review Bonanza: Sausage Party (2016) Review
If you are going to do a music mockumentary then This is Spinal Tap has to be your touch-point. You can either avoid all similarities or embrace what your film could be by building on the best aspects of that movie. … Continue reading Review Bonanza: Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping (2016) Review
From the opening sequence involving a storm, a weird dance-school and a girl becoming sharply and grotesquely cut to shreds by falling glass: you are well aware that Suspiria is not going to be your conventional horror movie. In fact, it … Continue reading Review Bonanza: Suspiria (1977) Review
The people that herald the late George A. Romero has a zombie master are clearly referencing Dawn of the Dead. This is the blueprint for how to make a zombie movie work. It has everything from “classic” zombies, clear rules for … Continue reading Review Bonanza: Dawn of the Dead (1978) Review
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off is the kind of movie which you wouldn’t get away with making anymore. The world is too cynical and too jaded to believe the events and actions which takes place in the film could actually occur, or … Continue reading Review Bonanza: Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986) Review
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