Cert – 12, Run-time – 2 hours 21 minutes, Director – Travis Knight After 15 years, HR worker Adam (Nicholas Galitzine) returns to his home planet to find it nearly destroyed, the prince of Eternia must lead the fight against its scourge, Skeletor (Jared Leto). Travis Knight is living out his childhood fantasies. With hisContinue reading “Masters Of The Universe – Review”
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Power Ballad – Review
Cert – 15, Run-time – 1 hour 38 minutes, Director – John Carney After spending an evening jamming and sharing ideas with former boy band member Danny Wilson (Nick Jonas), wedding singer Rick Power (Paul Rudd) discovers Danny has turned one of his songs into a hit, with no credit to him. The marketing forContinue reading “Power Ballad – Review”
The King Of Comedy – Introduction
It took six years for Martin Scorsese to form an understanding with The King Of Comedy. In the wake of Taxi Driver, and John Hinkley Jr’s assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan, the film grew a darker, more sinister side to the initial comedy presented to him by Robert De Niro. I look into this andContinue reading “The King Of Comedy – Introduction”
Derek And Clive Sink A Studio | Film Stories
I don’t often go back and properly read or listen to the work I’ve done in the past unless I’m maybe putting it on this website or on socials – as is somewhat the case here. I tend to let it exist as it is and think about the general idea of the feature, interviewContinue reading “Derek And Clive Sink A Studio | Film Stories”
Bananaman The Movie: How The Man Of Peel Slipped Away | Film Stories
Back in May 2022 one of my first published features made it to the pages of Film Stories magazine. Looking at the story of one of my favourite cancelled films, Bananaman The Movie, alongside the work of Emanata Studios adapting DC Thomson comic characters far beyond the ‘Beano-verse’. You can read the full feature onContinue reading “Bananaman The Movie: How The Man Of Peel Slipped Away | Film Stories”
No Place For Football – Review
Cert – N/A, Run-time – 1 hour 31 minutes, Directors – Brandon Scott Smith, Derek Sullivan Smith A team from Nuuk travel to take part in Greenland’s annual major football tournament, where conditions mean that training and gameplay are confined to three months. The score to No Place For Football, often lead by some simpleContinue reading “No Place For Football – Review”
Backrooms – Review
Cert – 15, Run-time – 1 hour 50 minutes, Director – Kane Parsons After falling through a wall in his furniture store, Clark (Chiwetel Ejiofor) explores an endless maze of almost empty office-like rooms, bringing more people in as the few unexplained contents, and creatures, start to attack. YouTube channel Kane Pixels’ viral series TheContinue reading “Backrooms – Review”
Star Wars: The Mandalorian And Grogu – Review
Cert – 12, Run-time – 2 hours 12 minutes, Director – Jon Favreau In order to capture a former Galactic Empire commander, bounty hunter The Mandalorian (Pedro Pascal) and his young apprentice Grogu must rescue the fight-pit-champion son of Jabba The Hutt (Jeremy Allen White). After seven years away the return of Star Wars toContinue reading “Star Wars: The Mandalorian And Grogu – Review”
Normal – Review
Cert – 15, Run-time – 1 hour 28 minutes, Director – Ben Wheatley A temporary sheriff (Bob Odenkirk) finds it difficult to leave a small, peaceful town as he found it when it seems the population is hiding a deadly secret. As temporary sheriff Ulysses Richardson (Bob Odenkirk) tell us in his opening monologue thatContinue reading “Normal – Review”
Obsession – Review
Cert – 18, Run-time – 1 hour 49 minutes, Director – Curry Barker After using what he believes to be a novelty item to wish that his friend will love him more than anyone else in the world, Bear (Michael Johnston) finds himself trapped by Nikki’s (Inde Navarrette) desperate, increasingly manic, love. Inde Navarrette’s turnContinue reading “Obsession – Review”
