Cert -15, Run-time – 2 hours 20 minutes, Director – James Mangold As the 60s begin, Bob Dylan (Timothée Chalamet) arrives in New York City and takes the folk scene by storm, before shaking it up with his turn to electric. A Complete Unknown wants to show just how much of a genius Bob DylanContinue reading “A Complete Unknown – Review”
Author Archives: Jamie Skinner
Saturday Night – Review
Release Date – 31st January 2025, Cert – 15, Run-time – 1 hour 49 minutes, Director – Jason Reitman 90 minutes before air, the cast of Saturday Night are fighting, there’s no audience and the schedule is over three hours. With risk of cancellation, producer Lorne Michaels (Gabriel LaBelle) is trying to bring everything togetherContinue reading “Saturday Night – Review”
A Real Pain – Review
Cert – 15, Run-time – 1 hour 30 minutes, Director – Jesse Eisenberg Cousins David (Jesse Eisenberg) and Benji (Kieran Culkin) embark on a week-long tour of Poland to learn about the country’s, and their Jewish family’s, history in the wake of their Holocaust survivor grandmother’s death. There’s been praise directed towards A Real PainContinue reading “A Real Pain – Review”
Just A Little Bit Random Audience Top Ten Films Of 2024
Over the past few weeks I’ve noted a number of times how 2024 was a great year for genre films. A variety of films have been praised and award season hits really seemed to find their way into the mainstream more than perhaps usual, something of a recurring trend over the past couple of years.Continue reading “Just A Little Bit Random Audience Top Ten Films Of 2024”
Just A Little Bit Random Review Of The Year 2024
Film journalist Tom Beasley once again joins me to count down our respective top ten films of the year lists. Throughout our hour long conversation we cover a year which provided plenty of excellent genre films, our differing views on the year’s action films and the growing demand for something different from music biopics. AllContinue reading “Just A Little Bit Random Review Of The Year 2024”
Babygirl – Review
Release Date – 10th January 2025, Cert – 18, Run-time – 1 hour 55 minutes, Director – Helina Reijn Tech CEO Romy (Nicole Kidman) finds herself entering into an affair when a new intern (Harris Dickinson) fulfils her submissive sexual desires. The sex scenes and montages highlighting the sub-dom relationship and desires of tech CEOContinue reading “Babygirl – Review”
Nosferatu – Review
Cert – 15, Run-time – 2 hours 12 minutes, Director – Robert Eggers Transylvanian vampire Count Orlok (Bill Skarsgård) spreads a plague throughout the German city of Wisborg in pursuit of a young, recently-married, woman (Lily-Rose Depp). Over the last few years I’ve praised Robert Eggers for being a master of atmosphere. Whether isolating usContinue reading “Nosferatu – Review”
Top Ten Films Of 2024
2023 was a year full of big hitters. It was a year packed with big-name directors helming the charge of films which showed a shift of audience demand away from the superhero genre and other more familiar commercial successes of recent years. 2024 has continued this trend (although its two billion-dollar grossers – at timeContinue reading “Top Ten Films Of 2024”
Better Man – Review
Cert – 15, Run-time – 2 hours 15 minutes, Director – Michael Gracey Accepted into Britain’s next big boyband Take That at 15, Robbie Williams (Jonno Davies) finds himself launched into stardom and a spiral of addictions, as his bad-boy solo career takes off he can’t help but still feel like a performing monkey. TheContinue reading “Better Man – Review”
Just A Little Bit Random Audience Best Films Of 2024 Vote
With 2024 coming to a close it’s time once again for you to have your say as to what you thought the best film of the year was! To vote simply go to this poll and select the 2024 release (by UK release date) from the dropdown list which stood out the most for youContinue reading “Just A Little Bit Random Audience Best Films Of 2024 Vote”