Pet Sematary
Stephen King’s famous story of the misspelled animal graveyard is exhumed 30 years after its original big-screen adaptation, this time from the producer of the Transformers films and starring Terminator […]
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Dr Strangelove: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Stanley Kubrick supposedly intended Dr Strangelove to be a serious Cold War thriller but ended up making a comedy due to the unavoidable absurdity of the situation. But in an […]
ROH: Frankenstein
Frankenstein is one of the most-told works of classic literature. On this blog we’ve reviewed the Boris Karloff version, a Christopher Lee version, the Gene Wilder/Mel Brooks version and even […]
Fighting With My Family
This is the true story of a Norwich-based family with wrestle-mania who all dream of fighting in WWE. Brother and sister Zak and Saraya (Jack Lowden and Florence Pugh) compete […]
Behind the Curve
This brilliantly titled Netflix documentary is about the growing trend for flat eartherism, a belief which has found new life in a growing movement of 21st century empiricists who don’t […]
On the Basis of Sex
Felicity Jones deals out gender justice as future Supreme Court judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg, AKA The Notorious RBG. The film starts with a breakneck journey through Ruth’s Harvard days, as […]
ENO: Akhnaten
This is Philip Glass’s third biographical opera following Einstein on the Beach and Satyagraha (about Gandhi). This time the subject is Akhnaten, the Egyptian pharaoh noted for replacing Egypt’s traditional […]
All is True
This is the a film about the later years of Shakespeare’s (Kenneth Branagh) life as he deals with the twin tragedies of the death of his son, Hamnet, and the […]
Music for 18 Musicians
This concert, hosted by the South Bank Centre, is a programme of all things Steve Reich, performed by the London Sinfonietta. For a minimalist work, the venue was rather maximalist, with […]
Pitch Perfect
This is a competition movie about two a cappella singing teams, the Barden Bellas and the Treblemakers, at a university for the musically impaired. I hated this film and I […]
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