The Homesman
Tommy Lee Jones directs, co-writes and co-stars in pseudo-feminist Western The Homesman. The twist is that the Homesman is a woman. Hilary Swank plays Mary Bee Cuddy, a capable pioneer […]
Life Itself
Life Itself is an informative and moving documentary about Roger Ebert, the great film critic who died from cancer in April 2013. Based on and featuring excerpts from Ebert’s memoir of […]
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay: Part 1
A bit after the events of Catching Fire, Catnip (Jennifer Lawrence) is in the hands of a rebel group, fighting President Snow (Donald Sutherland), ensconced deep in the Capitol of District 1. […]
The Imitation Game
I love Benedict Cumberbatch, because I’m a human and alive now – the two prerequisites for loving Benedict Cumberbatch. Once he was just a funny name, but now he’s the go-to […]
I’ve Never Seen… E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Welcome to a new feature, in which we review classics that we’d inexplicably never seen. It’s a bit like the Radio 4 show I’ve Never Seen Star Wars, except completely different and original […]
The Drop
The late James Gandolfini stars alongside Tom Hardy and Noomi Rapace, in this engaging crime drama about a Brooklyn bartender (Hardy) whose bar is robbed and also finds a beaten dog […]
Nightcrawler
Jake Gyllenhaal plays Louis Bloom, a low level crook who sees a business opportunity for an unscrupulous individual such as himself: flogging footage of crime and emergencies to local news stations. Louis’s […]
Mr Turner
I began today the youngest person at a Turner exhibition (save for a baby that looked like it would rather be elsewhere) and ended it the youngest person at a […]
The Babadook
From Rosemary’s Baby to Mama, horror has a long history of exploring motherhood. The latest example is The Babadook, an Australian chiller about a struggling widow (Essie Davis) and her […]
Singin’ in the Rain
Looking though one of those lists of the 100 greatest films or something, this was the first one I hadn’t seen. I say I hadn’t seen it; what I mean […]
Screen Goblin 