2018: The Future of Films has never looked brighter – The Greatest Showman, Hostiles, All The Money In The World
2018 could be special. I feel like I’m saying that every year of late – and rightly so. 2018 bodes well, though. Mark my words. Its...
Read MoreThe Last Jedi is wrong about one thing. The past deserves to live.
This isn’t going to go the way you think. Sixty minutes in. “This isn’t going to go the way you think”. By this point, the lack of...
Read MoreSome thoughts on why Justice League was never going to be good enough
I think my first experience of ‘Man of Steel’ was the closest I’ve come to replicating my trip to see Burton’s ‘Batman’, in 1989. 1989:...
Read MoreWhy Thor: Ragnarok, Marvel and DC deserve credit for a great 2017
This has been a truly fantastic year for films. And I think it’s time people acknowledge that comic book movies have played their part in...
Read MoreReview: Blade Runner 2049 – “Bold, restless and resolute“
As someone who likes to think they invented the #GayForGosling movement, I was sold on ‘Blade Runner 2049’ from the get go. Throw in Denis...
Read MoreReview: IT – “Is that it, It?”
‘IT’ may be the biggest disappointment of this cinematic year, for me. And that’s tough to take. Seeing you all enjoying...
Read MoreRun Times and Ratings – Are the BBFC and Hollywood losing the plot?
Hopefully you’ll have read about how great ‘Atomic Blonde’ is. How incoherent and rushed ‘The Dark Tower’...
Read MoreChoose 2017!
Oh god. What an exhilarating week at the cinema. War for the Planet of the Apes (don’t make me type it in full again, please). Then...
Read MoreThoughts On The Mummy – And Silly Season In General
I left ‘Tom Cruise’s The Mummy’ with a massive shit eating grin on my face. I’d never been more sure that what I...
Read MoreI want to talk to you about Alien: Covenant – “Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair.”
This isn’t a review of ‘Alien: Covenant’. We’ve already done that – and to my mind, it’s a really fair...
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