Category Archives: Film
Cinderella (1950) 75th Anniversary Review
The Electric State (2025) Review
Mickey 17 (2025) Review
Review in Brief: Wicked (2024)
Did the long-awaited big screen version of the iconic musical WICKED need to be a two-part epic? Possibly not, but this first part does make you intrigued about how everything will be wrapped up at the end of 2025. Years … Continue reading
Review in Brief: The Brutalist (2024)
There are many films out there about obsessive artists and the ups and downs of their personal and professional careers, but few as compelling and ambitious as THE BRUTALIST. Holocaust survivor and brilliant architect László Tóth (Adrian Brody) emigrates to … Continue reading
Review in Brief: Megalopolis (2024)
MEGALOPOLIS was always going to be flawed, but after three decades of waiting it’s frankly exasperating just how basic and ill-conceived Francis Ford Coppola’s passion project has turned out to be. In a stale and surface-level satirical conceit, Coppola asks, … Continue reading
Review in Brief: Transformers One (2024)
Now that’s a Transformers movie. This is so much better than you’d expect it to be, a real treat for fans of the franchise and a pleasant surprise for many who are not. In an admittedly overused prequel conceit, mortal … Continue reading
Captain America: Brave New World (Review) 2025
Review in Brief: Conclave (2024)
A load of old men locked in a room together to decide which one of them will get to be the boss, it’s the stuff thrillers are made of right? Based on the Robert Harris bestseller, the sudden death of the … Continue reading
Amazon to Take Full Creative Control of the James Bond Franchise
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