Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
Kevin Costner, megastar of the nineties but latter-day nonentity, is hopelessly miscast as the tight-clad outlaw of Sherwood Forest. When away on the crusades his father (Brian Blessed) is murdered […]
Boogie Nights
Released in 1997, Paul Thomas Anderson’s Boogie Nights follows Eddie Adams AKA Dirk Diggler (Mark Wahlberg) as he tries to make it in the pornography industry. Set in California in the late ’70s and early […]
The Passion of the Christ
As it’s Halloween, we take a look at The Passion of the Christ, Mel Gibson’s 2004 retelling of the crucifixion story. This Christian propaganda horror movie consists 30 minutes of set-up, […]
Friday Night Lights
Having recently watched all 5 seasons of Friday Night Lights in what I can only assume is record time, I went back to the 2004 movie that predicated this excellent TV show. This […]
Doctor Strange
It’s the fourteenth outing of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (I think!) and we’re now well into relatively unknown ‘second tier’ superheroes. Next on the list of ‘properties we haven’t used […]
Despicable Me
Incompetent super-villain Gru (Steve Carell) hatches a plan to steal the Moon, in order to prove his criminal mastermind credentials to his evil peers and disparaging mother. Although it uses ideas familiar from Pixar’s The Incredibles and Joss […]
I, Daniel Blake
British realism stalwarts Ken Loach and Paul Laverty reunite for I, Daniel Blake, a forceful, timely drama about a carpenter (Dave Johns) deemed “fit for work” following a heart attack, despite contradictory warnings from his […]
Bullitt
Bullitt is an early example of the great tradition of giving your main character an exciting-sounding-if-preposterous last name so you can use it as the title of the film. In […]
The Infiltrator
Bryan Cranston plays Robert Mazur, a crazy dad who gets deep into the world of drug dealing and organised crime, so he’s in familiar territory, but this time plays an […]
Blood Father
I remember hearing a story about one of Mel Gibson’s parenting tactics. He’d put dummy heads (from film sets) on spikes, and when his daughter’s boyfriends came to pick her up, he’d […]
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