Cert – 15, Run-time – 1 hour 46 minutes, Director – Gus Van Sant After being denied an extension on a loan, Tony Kiritsis (Bill Skarsgård) walks into the Meridian Mortgage office with a shotgun and takes the owner’s (Al Pacino) son (Dacre Montgomery) hostage, using his favourite radio host (Colman Domingo) as an intermediaryContinue reading “Dead Man’s Wire – Review”
Author Archives: Jamie Skinner
Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man – Review
Cert – 15, Run-time – 1 hour 52 minutes, Director – Tom Harper Tommy Shelby (Cillian Murphy) leaves his seclusion to return to Birmingham to steer his son (Barry Keoghan), the new leader of the Peaky Blinders, away from a Nazi plot that could collapse Britain. A criticism often thrown towards TV adaptations is thatContinue reading “Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man – Review”
The Tasters – Review
Cert – 15, Run-time – 2 hours 3 minutes, Director – Silvio Soldini Rosa (Elisa Schlott) is one of seven women forced to become a food taster for Hitler to ensure that it isn’t poisoned. There’s very little tasting in The Tasters. Not just from the obvious hesitancy to try potentially poisoned food, but asContinue reading “The Tasters – Review”
Being Ola – Review
Release Date – 3rd April 2026, Cert – PG, Run-time – 1 hour 12 minutes, Director – Ragnhild Nøst Bergem 30-year-old Ola lives in an inclusive Norwegian village, exploring the community around him and looking at what life is, and could be, like for him in the wider world. 30-year-old Ola Henningsen doesn’t let theContinue reading “Being Ola – Review”
Ready Or Not 2: Here I Come – Review
Cert – 15, Run-time – 1 hour 48 minutes, Directors – Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett Having survived the Le Domas family, Grace (Samara Weaving), alongside her sister Faith (Kathryn Newton), now finds herself in another deadly hide and seek game against a high council of wealthy families, who all want to take the influential throneContinue reading “Ready Or Not 2: Here I Come – Review”
Project Hail Mary – Review
Cert – 12, Run-time – 2 hours 36 minutes, Directors – Phil Lord, Chris Miller Waking up in the middle of space on a Hail Mary mission, science teacher Ryland Grace (Ryan Gosling) teams up with a rock-like alien (James Ortiz) to save both their worlds from star-eating cells. It’s been 12 years since PhilContinue reading “Project Hail Mary – Review”
Scarlet – Review
Cert – 15, Run-time – 1 hour 51 minutes, Director – Mamoru Hosoda Danish princess Scarlet (Mana Ashida) is killed and finds herself in an afterlife known as the Otherworld. With a modern-day Japanese paramedic (Masaki Okada) she attempts to get her life back to get revenge for her death and her father’s (Masachika Ichimura).Continue reading “Scarlet – Review”
A Pale View Of Hills – Review
Cert – 12, Run-time – 2 hours 3 minutes, Director – Kei Ishikawa When her journalist daughter (Camilla Aiko) asks about her life in Nagasaki, Etsuko (Yoh Yoshida) revisits the tragedies of her past (Suzu Hirose) and the life she tried to leave behind. There’s not so much two different films playing out in thisContinue reading “A Pale View Of Hills – Review”
A celebration of genre filmmaking’s power: more on the 2026 Oscars ceremony – Somer Valley FM
An extended ramble broadcast on Somer Valley FM looking back at the highlights and winners of the 98th Academy Awards. One which was a celebration of bold genre filmmaking, the life that’s still in art and cinema and the change it can survive and lead. The audio in the below video was originally broadcast inContinue reading “A celebration of genre filmmaking’s power: more on the 2026 Oscars ceremony – Somer Valley FM”
In The Blink Of An Eye – Review
Cert – Recommended age 14+, Run-time – 1 hour 34 minutes, Director – Andrew Stanton Separated by thousands of years, the lives of a Neanderthal family, modern-day couple and future astronaut face love, struggle and interconnected events. Andrew Stanton’s past sci-fi efforts, WALL-E for animation home Pixar and live-action debut John Carter, have been madeContinue reading “In The Blink Of An Eye – Review”
Just A Little Bit Random 