Wonder Woman (2017) – Film Review The first major female-led super-hero film for over a decade, Wonder Woman has a lot riding on it as the fourth instalment of the DC Extended Universe which includes Superman: Man of Steel, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, and Suicide Squad. There’s been a mixed reception for all of […]
More of the same as Johnny Depp returns for a fifth instalment of Pirates of the Caribbean
Pirates of the Caribbean: Salazar’s Revenge (2017) – Film Review I liked the first Pirates of the Caribbean film when it first came out in 2003. It was an entertaining family film if a little over long at 142 minutes and I felt it had one action sequence too many towards the end. Subsequent films have […]
Colossal is that rare film that you’ll never second guess until the end
Colossal (2017) – Film Review Written and directed by Spaniard Nacho Vigalondo, Colossal is an unusual low-budget science fiction black comedy independent film mash-up but with some serious star power in Anne Hathaway on board as main star and executive producer. Hathaway (who recalls a similar role in Rachel getting Married) stars as unemployed 30-something […]
Latest Alien film is a greatest hits of the Alien franchise – back to basics but no surprises
Alien: Covenant (2017) – Film Review Ridley Scott has always been able to make movies look great but without a good script any director’s going to suffer. The Covenant is a colony ship carrying over 2000 colonists and crew in cryogenic stasis which is diverted to a mysterious planet after picking up a signal of […]
Mindhorn – silly spoof fun with deluded Alan Partridge style laughs
Mindhorn (2017) – Film Review Richard Thorncroft (Julian Barratt, The Mighty Boosh) is a washed-up actor whose golden era was in three seasons of an obscure British low-budget genre cop show set on the Isle of Man called Mindhorn. Mindhorn was an ‘enhanced’ cop, with a bionic eye which could ‘see the truth’ – a […]