2nd March 2017 Fences is very much a straight adaptation of the play of the same name and when I say straight adaptation I mean it’s genuinely like watching a well-shot recording of a live performance. Star and director Denzel… Continue Reading
23rd February 2017 I’m going to say right off the bat (no pun intend- whatever man, you get the joke) that I didn’t actually like the original Lego Movie (2014) that much when it first premiered. Its use of pop-culture… Continue Reading
6th February 2017 The original Trainspotting was released in Britain in 1996 to critical acclaim. Fast forward twenty years and Danny Boyle is once again at the helm exploring the lives of Renton (Ewan McGregor), Sick Boy (Jonny Lee Miller),… Continue Reading
11th January 2017 Martin Scorsese’s Silence is a markedly different film to his previous outing The Wolf of Wall Street in just about every single aspect of form, content and intention. Trading in a celebrity glitz of debauchery, expensive set… Continue Reading
Movies of adventure in more than two parts are often referred to as sagas, but no series fits that description better than Peter Jackson’s Middle Earth films. A saga by definition is a long, heroic and detailed narrative. His groundbreaking… Continue Reading
Nineteen Hundred and Sixty Four was the year that the mania truly began in earnest. The sheer adulation that greeted John, Paul, George and Ringo as their Pan Am flight touched down at JFK International Airport in February that year… Continue Reading