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 […]
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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 […]
Colourful fun as Guardians of the Galaxy delivers more heart with the laughs and action
Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 2 (2017) – Film Review Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 2 is the followup to a film which was a surprise smash hit upon release three years ago. If it weren’t for the fact that it was being released under the Marvel Studio banner, and apparently existing in the same […]
A fine performance by Gemma Arterton in Their Finest
Their Finest (2017) – Film Review Based on the book Their Finest Hour and a Half by Lissa Evans, which was inspired by the real life story of screenwriter Diana Morgan, this film stars Gemma Arterton, Bill Nighy and Sam Claflin as the three main stars in this period drama with comic and romantic moments. […]