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 […]
Fury
Three years ago, Brad Pitt vowed to stop acting at the age of 50. Now that he’s reached that age but nonetheless stars in David Ayer’s Fury, a World War II movie about a […]
The Judge
Robert Downey Jr. plays Robert Duvall Jr. in this courtroom-cum-family drama about a hotshot lawyer (Downey Jr.) who ends up defending his estranged father (Duvall), a respected judge accused of […]
The Equalizer
Denzel Washington plays Bob, an ordinary hardware store worker and all-round nice guy, working his way through the hundred novels to read before you die, and befriending a young sex […]
’71
The latest feature from independent production company Warp Films stars Jack O’Connell as a British soldier deployed to Belfast during the Troubles, who suddenly finds himself abandoned behind enemy lines. […]
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