The Big Sick (2017) – Film Review The Big Sick is a quirkily named romantic culture clash comedy from the Judd Apatow stable (directed by Michael Showalter) about a Pakistani American stand-up comedian who is an Uber driver to help pay the bills in his spare time. Kumail Nanjiani (Silicon Valley) plays a version of […]
Dunkirk is a series of personal tales during a pivotal moment in history
Dunkirk (2017) – Film review In keeping with Christopher Nolan’s narrative device used in his telling of the Dunkirk story, I think you can sum this film up in the space of a paragraph or two by saying it’s a contender for film of the year – go forthwith and see Dunkirk on the biggest […]
War for the Planet of the Apes is an emotional series finale
War for the Planet of the Apes (2017) – Film Review It’s the beginning of the end of the story of the Planet of the Apes, where the remnants of humanity are preparing for a final battle which will involve Caesar’s tribe of apes who are trying to survive a spate of attacks by a […]
Spider-Man: Homecoming sees Tom Holland’s teen webslinger join the Marvel MCU
Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017) – Film Review With Homecoming, has it really been 15 years (and five films) since Sam Raimi’s original Spider-Man film accelerated the modern superhero film genre kickstarted by X-Men into the movie stratosphere? We’ve had three films starring Tobey Maguire and directed by Raimi (the one with Doc Ock as the villain […]
The latest instalment in the Harry Potter “Wizarding World” – “Fantastic Beasts 2” – has started filming
Principal photography started today on an all new adventure set in J.K. Rowling’s Wizarding World – the Harry Potter Universe – a sequel to Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. There’s a lot of returning characters in the second instalment of a planned five films in the series and David Yates is back to […]