RSC: Don Quixote
That’s RSC as in Royal Shakespeare Company as opposed to Royal Society of Chemistry, although David Threlfall and Rufus Hound have plenty of that too. Now playing at London’s Garrick Theatre […]
Merry Christmas!
Twas the night before Christmas And the tree was a-wobblin’ What’s that beneath it? Behold! a Screen Goblin! She sits by the hearth With her fingers so green And tells […]
A Very Very Very Dark Matter
Martin McDonagh brings his obsession with dwarves, gallows humour and the writing process to London’s Bridge Theatre (until 6 January), starring Jim Broadbent as a hilariously demented version of Hans […]
Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle
Legendary character actor and mo-cap aficionado Andy Serkis directs the second live-action Jungle Book story in two years, following Jon Favreau’s acclaimed 2016 effort. Conceived roughly around the same time, Serkis […]
I’ve Never Seen… Elf
Welcome to a festive edition of the feature where we finally get round to a classic that’s passed us by, like the Marcus Brigstocke programme I’ve Never Seen Star Wars except we […]
Stan & Ollie
Steve Coogan and John C. Reilly star as a past-their-prime Laurel and Hardy who embark on a mammoth tour of the UK to meet their alimony payments. The film benefits […]
Sorry to Bother You
There’s a fan theory that Get Out is a secret sequel to Being John Malkovich, and the new dark comedy Sorry to Bother You feels like the missing link between the two. The […]
Niagara
Marilyn Monroe plays Rose Loomis, a young woman plotting to kill her husband and run off with a younger man, in this crime thriller which is one of the actor’s […]
Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale
Krampus meets The Thing in this 2010 Finnish holiday horror that I would have called Santa’s Grotty. From the director of Big Game, Rare Exports starts in much the same way: a […]
Magic Mike
Dan recently proved that he doesn’t know me at all by buying me a film about a bunch of sexy men who undress for a living. Fortunately the Magic Mike […]
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