Film Review

I adore Call Me By Your Name, yet it’s easy to see the case against it. The houses are too big, and the settings are too pretty. Everyone is handsome,…

Tom Cruise may have put it best, 20 years ago in Magnolia: “Respect! The cock!”. There’s another cock in Phantom Thread (from the same director as Magnolia, Paul Thomas Anderson)…

The only relief in The Death of Stalin – a gut-punch, pitch-black political comedy by Armando Iannucci – is that you know the ending, or at least you should. (Look…

As the third and final installment in this young adult film franchise, Maze Runner: The Death Cure draws its last breath (one hopes). Like its two pretty mediocre predecessors, it…

With an opening sequence that deserves its very own Oscar nomination, Aaron Sorkin’s directorial debut sets the tone on such a high that the rest of the film feels like…

Christian (Claes Bang) attempts to give a speech – having carefully rehearsed it to make it look ‘spontaneous’ – but is interrupted by an old man who can’t seem to…

There’s one fascinating aspect to Darkest Hour. You wouldn’t think there’d be anything fascinating left to say about Winston Churchill during WWII, but there is one thing: not  so much…

I guess it had to happen – though did it, really? Even with the law of averages, there’s no reason why another needless reboot should be any more palatable than…

News is the first rough draft of history, claims newspaper owner Kay Graham (Meryl Streep) in The Post – but Oscar-bait movies are the other end of the animal, the…

Kirk Douglas in Lust for Life. Martin Scorsese in Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams. The crows. The sunflowers. The bandaged ear. “Starry, starry night.” The man whose paintings now sell for millions…