Moonstruck
Cher stars as Loretta Castorini, a woman from New York who gets engaged to the not-quite-man of her dreams (as in he’s not quite of her dreams; there’s no reason […]
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The Man With Two Brains
Steve Martin plays a brilliant neuroscientist, Dr Michael Hfuhruhurr, who finds the chance for love with a woman he inadvertently runs over. But it turns out she’s just after his […]
Hunt for the Wilderpeople
A streetwise child (Julian Dennison) and his reluctant foster dad (Sam Neill) become the subject of a manhunt through the bush in this Kiwi comedy, a sort of mash-up of […]
Arrival
Look up to the skies! What’s that approaching? It’s Arrival, the new alien contact movie from Denis Villeneuve, the director of Enemy and Sicario – but don’t let that put […]
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 […]
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 […]
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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