For It Is Man's Number

While it may feel like I am marking numbers off a bingo card just now, my quest to cover the films of Godzilla this year, as well as connect...

I like Kaley Cuoco, and have done for some time. As unpopular as it seems to be nowadays, I enjoyed The Big Bang Theory, and I enjoyed her i...

I wasn’t really sure what to expect from this Jason Statham vehicle, especially with director David Ayer working from a script by Kurt Wimme...

While I certainly don't want to dismiss the entire filmography of writer-director Peter Greenaway, especially when he has helmed at leas...

The start of any year is always the time when I try to catch up on all of the movies that have been doing well in the journey to the Oscars,...

I think many of you will be able to understand why I mistakenly assumed that I had already seen Sorority House Massacre . I'd seen The ...

I was worried about making this my first full experience of The Color Purple , but I felt that my experience of the story was long overdue. ...

Okay, first of all, I need to apologise. In making 2024 a year of Godzilla on the blog, I soon realised that I wanted to cover every connect...

A comedy from the same people who delivered the acclaimed Shiva Baby  to many happy viewers, Bottoms  is the perfect mix of smart and silly ...

Whether it's conscious or not, we are all in constant dialogue with those who came before us, specifically our parents. Sometimes those ...

When you make a film set largely in a strip club then you are, for better or worse, inviting comparison to a film so notorious that I don...

There's a joke that I vaguely remember, featured in at least one sitcom (but perhaps not unique), about someone spending so much time ob...

I sometimes use other movies as reference points in my reviews, but it's a tricky proposition. You want people to get a sense of somethi...

Finally getting around to this acclaimed debut feature from Mark Jenkin, I can now join the chorus of voices singing the praises of it. Okay...

Nicolas Cage plays Paul Matthews, a fairly bland and passive professor who hasn’t ever pushed himself out of his comfort zone. His career pa...

You can be forgiven if you haven’t heard of Primal Rage  before now. I certainly hadn’t heard of it until a friend messaged me about it just...

I watched, and reviewed, King Kong vs. Godzilla  many years ago, a very basic couple of paragraphs that summed up my thoughts without me kno...

My second Kaurismäki film in a fortnight, and one that many had near the top of their lists of favourite movies of 2023, Fallen Leaves  is a...

I don't dismiss every movie that debuts on a major streaming service. I believe, at least most of the time, that people keep trying to d...

Quite a few people have been praising a film called The Passenger lately. It's a 2023 film that features Kyle Gallner in a central role...