Review – The Irishman
Scorsese reunites with De Niro and Pesci and delivers a sprawling mob epic of a cinematic masterpiece
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Review – 1917
Sam Mendes’ World War 1 tale is an incredible unrelenting cinematic experience
Read moreReview – Hugo
Scorsese’s 2011 Hugo is a near masterpiece of a family adventure story, a moving homage to the early age of cinema and highly recommended
Read moreReview – Avengers : Endgame
Avengers : Endgame represents one of the biggest moments in modern day cinema, with the film bringing the first 3 phases of the Marvel Cinematic Universe to a rip roaring, victory lap of a crescendo. “We’re in the end game now” Doctor Strange, Avengers : Infinity War The film finds the remaining members of the avengers years after the climax
Read moreReview – The Shape of Water
Guillermo Del Toro’s latest film, released in 2017 is The Shape of Water, a fantasy, science fiction romantic drama, the likes of which only he can make. Set in the 1960’s in an American town near the coast, Elisa Esposito (Sally Hawkins) is a mute cleaner working in a restricted US research base. Her life is a highly repeated pattern,
Read moreReview – To Kill A Mockingbird
Its ‘T’ o’clock in the Alphabet Challenge and the selection is the 1962 crime drama To Kill a Mockingbird based on the novel by Harper Lee and directed by Robert Mulligan. The classic film stars Gregory Peck in an oscar winning lead role as Atticus Finch, local lawyer in the deep southern in the 1930’s. The story focusses on the
Read moreReview – In the Heat of the Night
For the ‘I’ film, we turn to the crime thriller with strong civli rights themes, the 1967 In the Heat of the Night directed by Normal Jewison and is based on the novel of the sane name by John Ball. The film is set in the town of Sparta in Mississippi, USA, following the murder of prominent local businessman Phillip
Read moreReview – Dr Strangelove (Or how I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb)
For letter ‘D’ of the second Alphabet challenge, we’re off to the 1964 classic political satire comedy – Dr Strangelove (Or how I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb). The classic film was directed and written by Stanley Kubrick – still in the early years of his career although following up a run of films that has included
Read moreReview – Manchester By The Sea
The latest film by writer and director Kenneth Lonergan is the 2016 drama Manchester by the Sea starring Casey Affleck in the lead role. It was actually produced by, in part, actors Matt Damon and John Krasinski. Affleck plays Lee Chandler, a Boston based maintenance man who is informed that his elder brother Joe (Kyle Chandler) has passed away from a
Read moreReview – Captain Fantastic
2016’s Captain Fantastic is a relatively low budget yet incredible ‘comedy drama’ film starring Viggo Mortenson in the lead role as a father of a large family, who having abandoned ‘modern life’ a number of years ago, find themselves taking a road trip to attend their mother’s funeral in New Mexico. The film is both written and directed by Matt
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