Shazam, 2019. Directed by David F. Sandberg. Starring Zachary Levi, Asher Angel, Jack Dylan Grazer, Mark Strong, Djimon Hounsou, Grace Fulton, Faithe Herman, Ian Chen, Jovan Armand, Cooper Andrews and Marta Milans. SYNOPSIS: A teenage foster child becomes an unlikely superhero when he is handed magical powers by a dying wizard. DC has finally learned […]
Movie Review – Pet Sematary (2019)
Pet Sematary, 2019. Directed by Kevin Kölsch and Dennis Widmyer. Starring Jason Clarke, John Lithgow, Jeté Laurence, Amy Seimetz, Obssa Ahmed, Hugo Lavoie and Lucas Lavoie. SYNOPSIS: A doctor and his family move to a secluded small town in Maine, home to a burial ground for deceased pets which boasts a strange, supernatural power. Pet […]
The Silence of the Lambs with blogger Lucy Buglass – The Pick of the Flicks Podcast #28
On The Pick of the Flicks Podcast, a different guest drops in every week to chat about their favourite film. This week, film critic and blogger Lucy Buglass stops by to discuss the Oscar-dominating horror classic The Silence of the Lambs… On the latest episode of The Pick of the Flicks Podcast, film critic and […]
Movie Review – What Men Want (2019)
What Men Want, 2019. Directed by Adam Shankman. Starring Taraji P. Henson, Josh Brener, Aldis Hodge, Tracy Morgan, Shane Paul McGhie, Max Greenfield, Brian Bosworth, Phoebe Robinson, Wendi McLendon-Covey and Auston Jon Moore. SYNOPSIS: An ambitious female sports agent acquires the ability to hear men’s thoughts and uses it to progress her professional and personal […]
Second Opinion – Ben is Back (2018)
Ben is Back, 2018. Directed by Peter Hedges. Starring Julia Roberts, Lucas Hedges, Kathryn Newton, Courtney B. Vance, Michael Esper, David Zaldivar and Rachel Bay Jones. SYNOPSIS: A mother welcomes her drug addict son home early from rehab when he drops by on Christmas Eve, until the family dog disappears… Throughout the early part of […]
Exclusive Interview – Ben is Back director Peter Hedges on addiction, casting his son, and Dumbo
Tom Beasley chats to director Peter Hedges about his new film Ben is Back, in which his son Lucas Hedges plays the title role… Just a few months after Timothée Chalamet broke the world’s hearts as a bizarrely attractive meth addict in Beautiful Boy, another exciting young actor is flexing his muscles as an addict […]
Movie Review – The Prodigy (2019)
The Prodigy, 2019. Directed by Nicholas McCarthy. Starring Taylor Schilling, Jackson Robert Scott, Peter Mooney, Paul Fauteux, Colm Feore and Brittany Allen. SYNOPSIS: The parents of a young boy begin to suspect something supernatural might be happening when their child develops seriously violent tendencies. I can’t say I expected much from The Prodigy when I […]
Movie Review – Girl (2018)
Girl, 2018. Directed by Lukas Dhont. Starring Victor Polster, Arieh Worthalter and Oliver Bodart. SYNOPSIS: A transgender ballet dancer undergoing hormone therapy becomes frustrated at the slow process of her gender reassignment surgery. As a cisgender, heterosexual man, it’s impossible for me to understand the plight of a transgender person, born into a body that […]
A Matter of Life and Death (plus more) with Rosie director Paddy Breathnach – The Pick of the Flicks Podcast #27
On The Pick of the Flicks Podcast, a different guest drops in every week to chat about their favourite film. This week, film director Paddy Breathnach discusses several movies, including Powell and Pressburger’s A Matter of Life and Death… On the latest episode of The Pick of the Flicks Podcast, film director Paddy Breathnach discusses […]
Movie Review – Under the Silver Lake (2018)
Under the Silver Lake, 2018. Directed by David Robert Mitchell. Starring Andrew Garfield, Riley Keough, Patrick Fischler, Topher Grace, Callie Hernandez and Luke Baines. SYNOPSIS: A jobless LA dreamer finds purpose in investigating the disappearance of his neighbour after they spend a romantic day together. The world of Under the Silver Lake is a weird, […]