Sweeping up a few older films that I wanted to see but missed at the cinema in the last few years. My current IMDb watch list sits at 488, and, unlike this movie, never seems to shrink! There is a lot to keep up with. Bad reviews have kept me away from Alexander Payne's Downsizing … Continue reading Downsizing
Over a year on from this novelty being the first fully interactive film released by Netflix there is still no evidence of a similarly user controlled show out there. The streaming service had promised, after scooping a primetime Emmy for outstanding TV movie, that it was commissioning many more like it. But as of January … Continue reading Black Mirror: Bandersnatch
I love a list. I know it's wrong. Art should not be compared. Each thing exists on its own merits, right? Well, it is a guilty pleasure of mine to try and sort something into a "best ever" and score it anyway, I can't help myself! So, let's do it for Gangster Movies! Inspired by … Continue reading 12 of the best… Gangster Movies
If anyone tells me they didn't enjoy The Irishman, I would have to say, fair enough. There are reasons not to. As an entertainment it isn't Goodfellas, as a thriller it isn't The Departed, and as a classic gangster tale it isn't anywhere near The Godfather, of course. It sags in the middle, ends morbidly, … Continue reading The Irishman
Documentaries, they can't be trusted, can they? There is always a purpose and a message the film-maker's have manufactured and edited to suit themselves, I find. They often leave you with more questions than answers. The best ones are open to interpretation enough to allow you in; allowing the source material to speak for itself. … Continue reading Jim & Andy
When I first heard about the Stephen King book called Gerald's Game I was about 16 years old, and it scared the shit out of me! Just the concept and the idea of it happening to you. So I never read the book. In my mind, I had imagined the worst already and did not … Continue reading Gerald’s Game
My intention was to listen to this twice through and then tell you what I thought about it. In the past, I have always admired Nick Cave more in theory than in practice. Finding his heavier touches a little too "noisy". Typified by the 2004 release Abbatoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus, where I … Continue reading Ghosteen
Never meet your heroes is the succinct tag line of this Amazon original series, dealing with the notion that all superheroes are morally good... but what if they weren't...? Filmed in Canada, and starring New Zealand actors Karl Urban and American Gothic's Antony Starr, this violent and very adult take on the costumed hero mythology … Continue reading The Boys
Memento - Complex in a good way! Too Complex? (Click for original link.) A question Hollywood has been asking for a while. Is a complex plot and a multitude of ways to interpret a story satisfying or confusing? I guess it depends on what you like! Many times, I have heard people say of a … Continue reading Complex Movies
Any fan of Phillip Pullman's epic trilogy will tell you that His Dark Materials is one of the best stories ever told. There is so much scope to adapt and interpret the narrative, so rich are the textures, characterisation and pure weight of its many themes. Which is perhaps why any re-imagining will always come … Continue reading His Dark Materials
The Wasteland 