Bill & Ted Face the Music
It’s 2020 and the world is ending. Also there’s a new Bill & Ted movie out. 29 years after their Battle of the Bands triumph, the Wyld Stallyns (Alex Winter […]
Category Archives: New Releases
Rocks
Set in Hackney but far from hackneyed, Rocks stars Bukky Bakray as a British-Nigerian teenager whose mother makes like a rock and splits. This British drama is pitched somewhere between […]
Tenet
A man (John David Washington), who may or may not work for some kind of mysterious organisation, finds himself investigating strange new weaponry which has been sent backwards through time. […]
Les Misérables (2019)
Not to be confused with that time Russell Crowe lied on his resumé about being able to sing, Les Misérables is a French drama based on a real-life case of police […]
Proxima
The cinemas are finally reopening with social distancing measures in place, the most effective being screening French dramas unlikely to draw a crowd. Proxima follows an astronaut (Eva Green) preparing […]
Darlin’
The Cleek clan are back in this sequel to 2011’s The Woman, written and directed by the Woman herself, Pollyanna McIntosh. While technically the third part of a trilogy, like […]
Escape Room(s)
Studios scrambling to cash in on the latest craze has produced so many escape room-themed movies that working out which one you’re watching is a puzzle in itself. Escape Room […]
Mucho Mucho Amor: The Legend of Walter Mercado
Walter Mercado may not be a household name in the UK, but the Puerto Rican artrologer is a Latin American superstar, Liberace and Uri Gellar rolled into one, known for […]
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Kimmy vs. the Reverend
This is my first taste of Netflix’s interactive offerings, apart from the “skip politics” button inexplicably included in a stand-up special from political comedian Seth Meyers. It didn’t work – […]
Pick It Up! – Ska in the ’90s
Pick It Up! – Ska in the ’90s is a 2019 documentary about the four-year window in which American ska music was popular in the 1990s. Taylor Morden’s love letter to […]
