And so, the second film post-Safdie separation arrives with Josh Safdie taking a very different swing at a sports-based film. Its breathless praise has nothing on how you feel by the time the credits role. Set in the 1950s and loosely inspired by a real person, Marty Supreme is Marty Mauser (Timothée Chalamet), a man…
Song Sung Blue arrives with star power and an inspirational true story, but don’t be fooled by the feel-good marketing, this is a story that completely pulls the rug out from under you with many dark turns that would be unbelievable had they not actually happened. It will plaster a smile to your face but…
The cinematic resurrection of another long-lost genre has arrived: the starry airport-thriller adaptation. The Housemaid mostly delivers the kind of throwaway entertainment you want, but doesn’t become quite as fun as it could be until its final act. We meet Millie (Sydney Sweeney), a young woman living in her car, as she arrives at the…
James Cameron whisks us back to Pandora for a third outing, following directly on from The Way of Water. Whilst it remains an immersive epic, Fire and Ash feels more familiar than it should. We rejoin Jake Sully (Sam Worthington), Neytiri (Zoe Saldaña) and their family as they are struggling with the grief of losing son Neteyam. Neytiri…
When I got home from seeing Wicked: For Good, I turned on my TV and happened to catch the glorious final 10 minutes of the cinematic masterpiece that is Mamma Mia! The contrast of one movie musical with another got me thinking about how important it is for the actors to be strong singers and the impact that…
Hot on the heels of the stratospheric success of Wicked: Part One (it bugs me every time that title card appears since the sequel was renamed For Good), this return to Oz brings us back down with a bump and, once again, highlights the dangers of splitting stories up in the name of money. We rejoin Elphaba (Cynthia…
With the trailer released for the live action Moana, it feels like the nail in the coffin for Disney’s originality. We’ve been plagued by these live action remakes for a decade now and whilst at first they felt like a relatively harmless novelty, now, with a remake of a film not even a decade old, they…
Edgar Wright returns to our screens with a re-adaptation that seemed poised to bring us back to the thoughtful action thrillers of yesteryear, but ultimately ends up as a somewhat entertaining disappointment. Based on Stephen King’s 1982 book horrifyingly set in the dystopian future of 2025, the film centres on Ben Richards (Glen Powell), an…
Returning with a belated threequel, nine years after the second film, the ‘magicians pulling off heists’ franchise is back with more of the same, now with an attempted tinge at nostalgia and a clear aim to revive the series for more iterations. Unfortunately, the film doesn’t quite manage to pull off the trick. The film…
Lynne Ramsay returns with a hypnotically-constructed journey through one new mother’s mental health crisis, boasting an extraordinary central performance from Jennifer Lawrence. Based on Ariana Harwicz’s book, the film follows Grace (Lawrence), a writer, who moves into a remote rural home with her partner, Jackson (Robert Pattinson). After the birth of their son, Grace becomes…
