Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
The concept of twin films is well documented, but 2022 offered triplet films in the form of three Pinocchio adaptations: Robert Zemeckis’ live-action Pinocchio, the Russian animation Pinocchio: A True […]
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Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
The world’s silliest-named detective is back! But enough about Enola Holmes 2. Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) is off on a busman’s holiday in this nonsensical sequel to 2019’s Knives Out, […]
The Mitchells vs. the Machines
The EastEnders/Matrix crossover we have all been waiting for arrives in the form of The Mitchells vs. the Machines, a Netflix animated feature about a wacky family caught up in […]
Things Heard & Seen
Amanda Seyfried goes from Oscar nomination to Netflix abomination in this new thriller about a cheating husband (James Norton) and a bulimic wife (that’s the extent of their characterisation) moving […]
Mank
Down-and-almost-out screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz is hired by an ambitious young film-maker called Orson Welles (Tom Burke) to work on his new film. Following a car crash he’s confined to […]
Gerald’s Game
A kinky couple (Carla Gugino and Bruce Greenwood) drive to an isolated cabin where he has a heart attack while she’s handcuffed to the bed, in this Netflix adaptation of […]
Rebecca (2020)
What a week. First the History Channel fail to realise they’ve cast a Nazi in their woodworking show, then Netflix accidentally make a film that Alfred Hitchcock already did back […]
The Babysitter: Killer Queen
The babysitter (Samara Weaving) is not back in this Netflix sequel to a movie whose sole redeeming feature was Samara Weaving. Two years after thwarting a cabal of Satanists, Cole […]
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Kimmy vs. the Reverend
This is my first taste of Netflix’s interactive offerings, apart from the “skip politics” button inexplicably included in a stand-up special from political comedian Seth Meyers. It didn’t work – […]
The Show Must Go On: The Queen+ Adam Lambert Story
The story of Queen has been told numerous times, but this is the first to cover the period after Freddie Mercury’s death in 1991, showing how the remaing band members […]
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