On The Pick of the Flicks Podcast, a different guest drops in every week to chat about their favourite film. This week, film critic Mark Searby discusses the mob classic The Godfather… On this week’s episode of The Pick of the Flicks Podcast, film critic Mark Searby stops by to talk about the movie considered […]
Movie Review – Bombshell (2019)
Bombshell, 2019. Directed by Jay Roach. Starring Charlize Theron, Margot Robbie, Nicole Kidman, John Lithgow, Kate McKinnon, Allison Janney, Connie Britton, Rob Delaney, Stephen Root, Alice Eve, Ashley Greene and Mark Duplass. SYNOPSIS: When a recently sacked anchor makes sexual harassment allegations against Fox News boss Roger Ailes, a tangled web of misconduct is uncovered. […]
Movie Review – A Hidden Life (2019)
A Hidden Life, 2019. Directed by Terrence Malick. Starring August Diehl, Valerie Pachner, Karin Neuhauser, Michael Nyqvist, Matthias Schoenaerts, Bruno Ganz and Jürgen Prochnow. SYNOPSIS: An Austrian farmer refuses to fight for the Nazis during the Second World War, which puts his way of life under threat. A new film from Terrence Malick is always […]
Movie Review – Weathering With You (2019)
Weathering With You, 2019. Directed by Makoto Shinkai. Featuring the vice talents of Kotaro Daigo, Nana Mori, Shun Oguri, Sakura Kiryu and Tsubasa Honda. SYNOPSIS: A teenager runs away from home and befriends a young woman who has the ability to control the weather. Makoto Shinkai made one of the best animated movies of the […]
Best Films of 2019 with film critic Clarisse Loughrey | The Pick of the Flicks Podcast #61
On The Pick of the Flicks Podcast, a different guest drops in every week to chat about their favourite film. This week, it’s something a little different as film critic Clarisse Loughrey joins us to round up the best movies of 2019… On this week’s episode of The Pick of the Flicks Podcast, it’s the […]
Movie Review – A Serial Killer’s Guide to Life (2019)
A Serial Killer’s Guide to Life, 2019. Directed by Staten Cousins Roe. Starring Katie Brayben, Poppy Roe, Ben Lloyd-Hughes, Sarah Ball and Tomiwa Edun. SYNOPSIS: A shy self-help addict embarks on a road trip with a new guru promising to improve her life. Unfortunately, this new mentor also has a nasty habit of murdering people […]
Movie Review – 1917 (2019)
1917, 2019. Directed by Sam Mendes. Starring George MacKay, Dean-Charles Chapman, Colin Firth, Mark Strong, Benedict Cumberbatch, Andrew Scott, Claire Duburcq, Daniel Mays, Richard Madden and Adrian Scarborough. SYNOPSIS: Two young British soldiers in the trenches of the First World War are sent on a dangerous journey to prevent another unit from walking straight into […]
Movie Review – The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (2018)
The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, 2018. Directed by Terry Gilliam. Starring Adam Driver, Jonathan Pryce, Stellan Skarsgård, Olga Kurylenko, Jason Watkins, Joana Ribeiro, Jordi Mollà and Sergi López. SYNOPSIS: An advertising director returns to the Spanish village where he made a student film adaptation of Don Quixote, only to find his star now believes […]
Movie Review – The Gentlemen (2020)
The Gentlemen, 2020. Directed by Guy Ritchie. Starring Matthew McConaughey, Charlie Hunnam, Hugh Grant, Michelle Dockery, Henry Golding, Colin Farrell, Jeremy Strong and Eddie Marsan. SYNOPSIS: An American businessman who controls much of London’s cannabis trade becomes a target for many underworld figures when rumours of his retirement begin to circulate. Guy Ritchie’s filmography is […]
The Ten Best Musical Films of the 2010s
Tom Beasley taps his toes and sings along merrily with ten of the best movie musicals of the decade… The musical is one of the most unusual genres in Hollywood. In the early days of the “talkies”, much of the studio system ran on these movies. They were the oxygen keeping the film business afloat. […]