The Last King of Scotland
The feature debut of documentarian Kevin Maconald (Marley), The Last King of Scotland is a 2006 historical thriller – not about Alex Salmond, but former Ugandan President Idi Amin (Forest […]
The feature debut of documentarian Kevin Maconald (Marley), The Last King of Scotland is a 2006 historical thriller – not about Alex Salmond, but former Ugandan President Idi Amin (Forest […]
8 years after The Dark Knight, Batman has been blamed for Harvey Dent’s crimes and Bruce has become a recluse, that is, until a new foe rears his ugly head: […]
Shortly after the end of The Voyage Home, recently demoted Captain Kirk is on shore leave with McCoy and Spock while a new Enterprise is kitted out. Then there’s a […]
Sherlock Holmes is currently hot property, having recently been played with OCD by Benedict Cumberbatch, ADHD by Robert Downey Jr. and MDMA by Jonny Lee Miller. Now, Sir Ian McKellen […]
With Jurassic World stampeding the box office, let’s look back at The Lost World: Jurassic Park – the 1997 sequel to Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic classic. In Jurassic Park 2, Vince […]
Misery turns 25 this year; the perfect flimsy pretext for reviewing this cockadoodie classic. Because it’s Stephen King, the story is about an author, named Paul Sheldon (James Caan). After […]
Adapted from the stage, London Road is a musical about the “Suffolk Strangler” murders of 2006, using the real words of members of the community. Think Creature Comforts meets the […]
1957 sci-fi Quatermass 2 (AKA Enemy from Space) is available on iPlayer – for the next 7 hours. So get a move on. Hammer’s sequel to The Quatermass Xperiment sees the return of Brian […]
Supposedly (and hilariously) a favourite of David Cameron’s, If…. is a seminal British satire set in a private school. The school itself is suitably grim; all wooden panels and cruelty. […]
Twenty years after the first Jurassic Park ended in disaster, a new group of incompetents have tried their hand at making it work, a bit like when they kept re-branding […]