Film review: Beirut ****
What happens in Beirut? People act “in ways that might be subject to a variety of legitimate interpretations,” explains someone at the end (um, spoiler?) – and that line is…
What happens in Beirut? People act “in ways that might be subject to a variety of legitimate interpretations,” explains someone at the end (um, spoiler?) – and that line is…
The world is changing, in fact it’s already changed. All that remains is for Hollywood studios to stop putting gross disgusting humour in their comedies – especially since their hearts…
The new Overboard is that rare thing: a remake of an 80s hit that could actually have been made in the 80s. This is not the way it usually goes.…
The war between men and women is also a war between stylish and silly (or silly and stylish; we’re not trying to tag either gender) in Revenge, a spectacularly gory…
The gang’s all here in Avengers: Infinity War, in which Marvel reap the benefits of having so assiduously introduced us to one superhero after another over the past 10 years.…
To MGM’s lion and Columbia’s ‘torch lady’ we can now add more recent studio logos, like Pixar’s bouncing desk-lamp or Blumhouse with… well, whatever’s going on in the Blumhouse logo.…
Character names are out of control this week. Dwayne Johnson is ‘Davis Okoye’ in Rampage: Total Chaos, which is weird since he doesn’t look especially Nigerian, while Bella Thorne is…
If you can’t say something nice, goes the phrase, don’t say anything at all. Or, in movie terms: if your dialogue is liable to be cheesy and embarrassing, better to…
Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One is based on a book by Ernest Cline, but a better title might be ‘Comic Con: The Movie’. Here, as in those geeky gatherings, is…
So, asks Mary Magdalene in the Garden of Gethsemane: “Has any of this happened as you expected it to?”. Yes and no, Mary, yes and no. On the one hand,…