Top Gun
Tom Cruise plays “Maverick”, the best pilot in the Navy. Wait… the Navy? Surely you mean the Air Force. No, it’s definitely the Navy, I checked. Maybe there’s a Cruise connection there […]
Rope
Set in a swanky New York apartment in 1948, Hitchcock’s first colour film opens with a pair of well-to-do men murdering their friend. They stuff the man’s corpse in a trunk before […]
Sphere
A group of scientists are trapped on an underwater rig by bad weather. On the sea bed, they’re sent to investigate nearby wreckage, and possible alien life. Yeah, it’s basically […]
King Kong (1976)
The 1970s was the golden age for disaster movies, and with the recent success of The Towering Inferno and The Poseidon Adventure, King Kong looked ripe for a remake. Unfortunately […]
Outlaw
Reviewing a Danny Dyer film is like reviewing a nosebleed. It’s bloody pointless and bloody unpleasant. Outlaw is writer/director Nick Love’s fourth collaboration with Danny Dyer, the poor man’s hard man. […]
Prisoners
Child abduction. Rubbish isn’t it? And it’s about time someone made a film about it. Preferably starring Hugh Jackman and Jake Gyllenhaal. Ideally where Jackman plays a father whose child […]
Mental Illness in Film
How various groups, from women and racial groups, to LGBT people, nationalities and people of differing political views, are represented in films is a topic of much discussion, including on […]
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
Back in July I wrote an article for the Guardian on Guy Pearce’s five best performances. As you can see from the comments I rather glaringly omitted Priscilla, Queen of the […]
Eyes Wide Shut
In this sinister erotic drama, the marriage of a wealthy New York couple, Alice (Nicole Kidman) and Bill (Tom Cruise), is put under strain when Alice reveals some of her […]
The Recruit
If there’s a better way to fill our limited time on this earth than watching mediocre crime thrillers I still haven’t found it. In The Recruit Al Pacino reprises his role as a law […]
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