Chris Connor reviews the opening two episodes of Slow Horses season 2… In a year that’s been full of strong offerings for Apple TV+, Slow Horses based on Mick Herron’s acclaimed series of novels stood out as one of the best with its first season. The showfocuses on a group of cast out MI5 agents […]
Movie Review – The Woman King (2022)
The Woman King, 2022. Directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood. Starring Viola Davis, Thuso Mbedu, Lashana Lynch, Sheila Atim, John Boyega, Hero Fiennes Tiffin, Adrienne Warren, Jayme Lawson, Masali Baduza, Angélique Kidjo and Jordan Bolger. SYNOPSIS Inspired by true events that took place in the Kingdom of Dahomey, one of the most powerful states of 18th and […]
Movie Review – Three Minutes: A Lengthening (2021)
Three Minutes: A Lengthening, 2021. Directed by Bianca Stigter. Starring Helena Bonham Carter. SYNOPSIS: A snippet of 16mm film offers an emotionally charged, meditative glimpse into the lives of the unsuspecting Jewish citizens of a small Polish village at the precipice of World War II. Documentary film at its best can be a potent vehicle […]
Movie Review – Aftersun (2022)
Aftersun, 2022. Written and Directed by Charlotte Wells. Starring Paul Mescal, Frankie Corio, and Celia Rowlson-Hall. SYNOPSIS: Sophie reflects on the shared joy and private melancholy of a holiday she took with her father twenty years earlier. Memories real and imagined fill the gaps between as she tries to reconcile the father she knew with […]
Movie Review – Anaïs in Love (2021)
Anaïs in Love, 2021. Directed by Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet. Starring Anaïs Demoustier, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Denis Podalydès, Jean-Charles Clichet, Anne Canovas, Christophe Montenez and Xavier Guelfi. SYNOPSIS: A directionless young woman becomes fascinated with the writer wife of an older man after she begins an affair with him. Earlier this year, Joachim Trier’s terrific drama The […]
Disney+ Review – The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special
The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special, 2022. Directed by James Gunn. Starring Chris Pratt, Pom Klementieff, Dave Bautista, Bradley Cooper, Karen Gillan, Sean Gunn, Kevin Bacon, Michael Rooker and Vin Diesel. SYNOPSIS: Peter Quill, aka Star-Lord (Chris Pratt) is missing Christmas while in outer space, so his teammates Drax (Dave Bautista) and Mantis (Pom […]
4K Ultra HD Review – Highlander (1986)
Highlander, 1986. Directed by Russell Mulcahy. Starring Christopher Lambert, Sean Connery, Clancy Brown, Roxanne Hart, Sheila Gish, Hugh Quarshie, and James Cosmo. SYNOPSIS: An immortal warrior is pursued through time by a brutal barbarian looking to be the ‘only one’. Continuing to trawl the vaults of their catalogue of cult movies from the 1980s to […]
Star Wars: Andor Episode 12 Review – ‘Rix Road’
Chris Connor reviews the season one finale of Star Wars: Andor… After the reset of ‘Daughter of Ferrix ‘ and the forces descending on Maarva’s funeral to spring a trap for Andor, the finale ‘Rix Road’, had a lot to live up to. Could the series, which has earned the best reviews for a Star […]
Netflix Review – Wednesday
Shaun Munro reviews the first season of Netflix’s The Addams Family spinoff series Wednesday… As streaming services continue their industrious quest to plumb every last viable “IP” ripe for its own series treatment, in the very least a contemporary live-action adaptation of The Addams Family feels like a fairly natural eventuality. After all, little truly […]
Movie Review – Spirited (2022)
Spirited, 2022. Directed by Sean Anders. Starring Ryan Reynolds, Will Ferrell, Octavia Spencer, Sunita Mani, Aimee Carrero, Joe Tippett, Marlow Barkley, Maximilian Lee Piazza, Tracy Morgan, Jen Tullock, Andrea Anders, Adam Grupper, Rose Byrne, Naheem Garcia, and Judi Dench. SYNOPSIS: A musical version of Charles Dickens’s story of a miserly misanthrope who is taken on […]
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