Category Archives: Film Reviews

Cert – U, Run-time – 1 hour 35 minutes, Director – Kirk DeMicco Kinkajou Vivo (Lin-Manuel Miranda) travels from Cuba to Florida to deliver an old love song from his owner (Juan de Marcos González) to a long-distant retiring musician (Gloria Estefan). After the fizzing energy of this summer’s In The Heights Lin-Manuel Miranda returnsContinue reading “Vivo – Review”

Cert – 15, Run-time – 2 hours 19 minutes, Director – Tom McCarthy An American father (Matt Damon) searches France for the man his daughter (Abigail Breslin) claims committed the murder that she has been falsely imprisoned for. Much like Matt Damon’s central character, Tom McCarthy’s latest, Stillwater, wastes no time in rushing straight intoContinue reading “Stillwater – Review”

Cert – 12, Run-time – 1 hour 49 minutes, Director – Augustine Frizzell While researching for an obituary, journalist Ellie (Felicity Jones) unveils a series of unrelated letters telling the story of a lost love affair. There’s an almost dreamy nature to the idealistic portrait of a picturesque 60s love affair in this adaptation ofContinue reading “The Last Letter From Your Lover – Review”

Cert – 15, Run-time – 2 hours 12 minutes, Director – James Gunn A team of killers and villains is put together to destroy a sinister lab on a small South American island As Michael Rooker’s Savant wipes a crushed bird’s blood from a ball he’s been throwing around his prison cell onto his trouserContinue reading “The Suicide Squad – Review”

Cert – 12, Run-time – 2 hours 7 minutes, Director – Jaume Collet-Serra Avid explorer Lily (Emily Blunt), alongside brother MacGregor (Jack Whitehall), enlists the help of boat skipper Frank (Dwayne Johnson) to take them down the Amazon, in the hope of finding a tree with petals with advanced healing powers. As explorer Lily (EmilyContinue reading “Jungle Cruise – Review”

Cert – 15, Run-time – 2 hours 21 minutes, Director – Edgar Wright Documentary looking at the career of Ron and Russell Mael, the minds behind the songs of Sparks. In many interviews for the documentary of their careers Ron and Russell Mael, the titular Sparks Brothers, have claimed that the only person who couldContinue reading “The Sparks Brothers – Review”

Cert – 15, Run-time – 1 hour 48 minutes, Director – M. Night Shyamalan A group of holidaymakers find themselves trapped on a beach which causes them to age rapidly. The trailers for M. Night Shyamalan’s latest gave the impression that it could be very hit or miss. Something highly creepy and unsettling, or whereContinue reading “Old – Review”

Cert – 12, Run-time – 1 hour 57 minutes, Director – Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson The nearly forgotten Harlem Cultural Festival is brought back to life through restored footage, relived through interviews with attendees, performers and organisers. Still grieving the death of Martin Luther King, a year on, being undisturbed by America’s fascination with pouring moneyContinue reading “Summer Of Soul – Review”

Cert – 18, Run-time – 1 hour 53 minutes, Director – Leigh Janiak Deena (Kiana Madeira) finds herself transported back to 1666, witnessing the birth of the witch’s curse that haunts her town, in order to bring it to an end in 1994. The finale to Netflix’s Fear Street trilogy ticks many of the boxesContinue reading “Fear Street Part 3: 1666 – Review”

Cert – 15, Run-time – 1 hour 28 minutes, Director – Adam Robitel After venturing into New York to gather evidence on the Minos corporation, Zoey (Taylor Russell) and Ben (Logan Miller) find themselves trapped in another series of deadly escape rooms with other past survivors. As you think early on in Escape Room: TournamentContinue reading “Escape Room: Tournament Of Champions – Review”