Tag Archives: Movies

Review in Brief: Churchill (2017)

Posted on June 26, 2018 by Sam S-P

Trading showiness for human connection, CHURCHILL is far superior to DARKEST HOUR. The dialogue might range from poetic bluster (“My job is not to fight, not to die…I must exist”) to rather cumbersome exposition (“We’ve only a three day window … Continue reading →

Posted in Film, Film Review | Tagged Brian Cox, Churchill, Historical Drama, John Slattery, Movies, The Darkest Hour | Leave a comment

Review: Whiskey Tango Foxtrot (2016)

Posted on January 27, 2017 by Sam S-P

I wasn’t expecting to get as much out of WHISKEY TANGO FOXTROT as I did. I do like most of Tina Fey’s work, but war comedies can be a difficult balancing act, especially when handling such recent, raw events. Thankfully, … Continue reading →

Posted in Film, Film Review | Tagged A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, Alfred Molina, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Christopher Abbott, Comedy, Film, Margot Robbie, Martin Freeman, Movies, Pineapple Express, Predator, Robert Carlock, Sheila Vand, Tina Fey, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot | Leave a comment

Review in Brief: Don’t Breathe (2016)

Posted on January 25, 2017 by Sam S-P

What a treat of a horror-thriller DON’T BREATHE is. Stephen Lang’s Blind Man fighting off teenage burglars isn’t just played as an unstoppable monster (though he becomes that towards the end) but also a scared and unhinged human being. Between … Continue reading →

Posted in Film, Film Review | Tagged Evil Dead, Fede Alvarez, Film, Horror, Hush, Movies, Stephen Lang | 1 Comment

Review: Silence (2016)

Posted on January 17, 2017 by Sam S-P

The release of a new Martin Scorsese film is still something to mark on your calendar, but perhaps the undoubtedly ambitious guilt trek SILENCE was too personal for his own good. Two Portuguese Jesuits travel to Japan to investigate reports … Continue reading →

Posted in Film, Film Review | Tagged Adam Driver, Akira Kurosawa, Andrew Garfield, Apocalypse Now, Drama, Film, Historical Drama, Liam Neeson, Martin Scorsese, Movies, Silence, The Mission | 1 Comment

Series Retrospective: Bourne

Posted on January 14, 2017 by Sam S-P

In the latest look back at a long-running series, I’ve decided to look at everyone’s favourite amnesiac assassin, Jason Bourne. Robert Ludlum’s antidote to Bond has been knocking around for a while, and has not let his author’s passing and … Continue reading →

Posted in Film, Film Feature | Tagged Bourne, Clive Owen, Doug Liman, Film, Franka Potente, Jason Bourne, Jeremy Renner, Joan Allen, Julia Stiles, Movies, Paul Greengrass, The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Legacy, The Bourne Supremacy, The Bourne Ultimatum, Thriller, Tony Gilroy | Leave a comment

Review: A Monster Calls (2016)

Posted on January 11, 2017 by Sam S-P

I read A MONSTER CALLS over Christmas in preparation for this. What took me so long? Conor (Lewis MacDougall) doesn’t have the luxury of a happy childhood. Between his mother (Felicity Jones) losing her battle against cancer, his icy grandmother … Continue reading →

Posted in Film, Film Review | Tagged A Monster Calls, Drama, Fantasy, Felicity Jones, Film, Frankenstein, Guillermo del Toro, JA Bayona, King Kong, Lewis MacDougall, Liam Neeson, Monster Movie, Movies, Pan's Labyrinth, Patrick Ness, Sigourney Weaver | 1 Comment

Film Confessional: Gods of Egypt

Posted on January 6, 2017 by Sam S-P

I have a confession to make…I actually quite like GODS OF EGYPT. I enjoyed watching the film that made Alex Proyas aggressively lambast film critics for not giving him a chance, pretty much from when the first trailer dropped. I … Continue reading →

Posted in Film, Film Feature, Film Review | Tagged Alex Proyas, B-movie, Chadwick Boseman, Dark City, Film, Flash Gordon, Geoffrey Rush, Gerard Butler, Gods of Egypt, Jason and the Argonauts, Movies, Nicolaj Coster-Waldau, Ridley Scott, Shakespeare, The Crow, Tolkien, Transformers | Leave a comment

Looking Back and Looking Forward: 2016, Part 2

Posted on January 1, 2017 by Sam S-P

Here are the very best, and the very worst films I’ve seen this year. MOONLIGHT, LA LA LAND and MANCHESTER BY THE SEA aren’t out in the UK for another few weeks, so don’t look for them here. Absent also … Continue reading →

Posted in Film, Film Feature | Tagged Abigail Hardingham, Adam Sandler, Adult Life Skills, Animation, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Blaine Brothers, Blockbuster, Chris Pine, Cian Barry, Comedy, David Mackenzie, David Spade, Disney, Doctor Strange, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Film, Get a Job, Grimsby, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, Hell or High Water, Horror, Hunt for the Wilderpeople, Jeff Bridges, Julian Dennison, La La Land, Manchester By the Sea, Mark String, Moonlight, Movies, Netflix, Nina Forever, Rian Johnson, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Romance, Sacha Baron Cohen, Sam Neill, Star Wars: Episode VIII, Suicide Squad, T2:Trainspotting, Taika Waititi, The Do-Over, War for the Planet of the Apes, Warner Bros, Wonder Woman, Zootopia, Zootropolis | Leave a comment

Looking Back and Looking Forward: 2016, Part 1

Posted on December 27, 2016 by Sam S-P

2016 has been a terrible year in the multiplexes, not to mention a particularly black one for art and entertainment in general. Blockbusters have rarely been so lacklustre or downright awful. Mercifully the indie film scene has had a far … Continue reading →

Posted in Film, Film Feature | Tagged 10 Cloverfield Lane, A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, Amy Adams, Anna Kendrick, Arrival, Bill Nighy, Blockbuster, Craig Roberts, Dad's Army, Dan Trachtenberg, David Lynch, Denis Villeneuve, Film, Independent Film, Jim Ward, Lotje Sodderland, Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates, Movies, My Beautiful Broken Brain, Nicolas Winding Refn, Paul Rudd, Ricky Gervais, Special Correspondents, The Fighter, The Fundamentals of Caring, The Neon Demon, Under the Shadow, Zac Efron | Leave a comment

Review: Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)

Posted on December 21, 2016 by Sam S-P

Was the emotionally bereft GODZILLA remake just a blip for Gareth Edwards? Thankfully yes it was. There is more genuine humanity, imagination and enjoyment to ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY than there was not only in the ill-advised giant … Continue reading →

Posted in Film, Film Review | Tagged A New Hope, Alan Tudyk, Ben Mendelsohn, Blockbuster, Diego Luna, Fantasy, Felicity Jones, Film, Forest Whitaker, Gareth Edwards, Godzilla, Lucasfilm, Mads Mikkelsen, Movies, Platoon, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Saving Private Ryan, Sci-fi, Star Wars, The Force Awakens | 4 Comments

Tag Archives: Movies

Review in Brief: Churchill (2017)

Review: Whiskey Tango Foxtrot (2016)

Review in Brief: Don’t Breathe (2016)

Review: Silence (2016)

Series Retrospective: Bourne

Review: A Monster Calls (2016)

Film Confessional: Gods of Egypt

Looking Back and Looking Forward: 2016, Part 2

Looking Back and Looking Forward: 2016, Part 1

Review: Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)

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