WHO Framed Roger Rabbit is one of my all-time favourite films. I'm talking top 10. Easy.At some point, but not today, I'm going to write a review that nails down all my feelings about this incredible piece of film noir which just so happens to star a talking animated rabbit.At some other point, I might even post the script I wrote for a Who Framed Roger Rabbit sequel. It's called Who Stole Roger Rabbit and I talk about it in this podcast (my bit is from 16:30, but you should listen to the whole thing).But this is the not the time nor the place...
Monday, 27 February 2017
Thursday, 23 February 2017
(R) 3.5 out of 5Director: Danny Boyle.Cast: Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller, Robert Carlyle, Anjela Nedyalkova, Kelly Macdonald.Choose life. Choose upside-down deer projections on your wall.Sick Boy (Miller) defines nostalgia as being "a tourist in your own youth" in a particularly meta moment in this 20-years-later sequel of the cult classic.T2 Trainspotting (why is it called that? Why not just Trainspotting 2?) relishes that...
(R) ★★★★★Director: Danny Boyle.Cast: Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller, Kevin McKidd, Robert Carlyle, Kelly Macdonald.Spud (Bremner), Tommy (McKidd), Renton (McGregor) and Sick Boy (Miller)head into the great outdoors in Trainspotting.THERE'S no doubt Trainspotting is a remarkable film. The Scots themselves voted it their greatest movie of all time, while the BBC rated it #10 in its list of the best British...
Thursday, 16 February 2017
(PG) ★★★★Director: Theodore Melfi.Cast: Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monáe, Kevin Costner, Kirsten Dunst, Jim Parsons, Glen Powell, Mahershala Ali.(From left) Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer and Janelle Monáe star in Hidden Figures.IT’S tempting to say that now is the perfect time for a reminder of the importance of equality, whether it be between the genders, the races or sexual orientations.But the truth is that anytime is a good...
Thursday, 9 February 2017
(MA15+) ★★Director: James Foley.Cast: Dakota Johnson, Jamie Dornan, Eric Johnson, Marcia Gay Harden, Kim Basinger.Christian Grey (Jamie Dornan) and Anastasia Steele (Dakota Johnson) are back for more kink in Fifty Shades Darker.CONFESSION: I was one of the few film critics that gave Fifty Shades Of Grey a good review.For all its flaws, the first film took its apparently atrocious source material and turned it into a well shot and often intriguing...
Thursday, 2 February 2017
(M) ★★★Director: M Night Shyamalan.Cast: James McAvoy, Anya Taylor-Joy, Betty Buckley, Haley Lu Richardson, Jessica Sula.Casey (Anya Taylor-Joy) goes head-to-head with one of Kevin's many personalities, as portrayed by James McAvoy, while her fellow captives watch on.IS M Night Shyamalan back in the game?It seems his career has finally finished bottoming out. After writing and directing one of the best films of the ‘90s – The Sixth Sense – the...
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