2020 Reviews – Enola Holmes
Directed by Harry Bradbeer, Enola Holmes (Millie Bobby Brown) has a charmed life, living in a big country house with her mother, learning and playing all day long. On her sixteenth birthday, she awakes to find her mother has left … Continued
2020 Reviews – Ava
Stewie Griffin once asked, “what ever happened to Geena Davis? She used to be in movies but she’s not in movies anymore?” It’s true, she has barely been sighted since the nineties. So, when a movie comes out and she … Continued
2020 Reviews – The Devil All the Time
Voicework aside, and the apparently unreleasable disaster of a movie with Daisy Ridley too, Chaos Walking, it’s good to be able to get a look at Tom Holland outside of playing Spider-Man. The Devil All the Time gives us Robert … Continued
2020 Reviews – I’m Thinking of Ending Things
If you were unlucky enough (or lucky enough, depending on how masochistic you are), to glimpse the trailer for I’m Thinking of Ending Things, then you probably noticed that this movie looks like a mash-up of Eternal Sunshine of a … Continued
2020 Reviews – Like a Boss
A lot of the world, including other parts of Australia, are reviewing Tenet, but I’m here in Victoria, schlepping it with a catch-up review of Like a Boss. Bloody COVID-19, delaying Christopher Nolan from me – just another reason to … Continued
TV Talk – Watchmen
Hello! Welcome to my first TV Talk; the prospect of delving into Watchmen lore seemed too mouth-watering a challenge to step aside. In preparation for this series, I finally got my hands on the Watchmen comic, and rewatched the 2009 … Continued
2020 Reviews – The One and Only Ivan
Roll up! Roll up! And see The One and Only Ivan! – That’s what I’ve done. That’s what I’m doing right now. And I’m going to talk about it. Let’s go! Ivan is a gorilla, and the final act in … Continued
2020 Reviews – Magic Camp
Alright, deep breaths. Disney+, what are you doing? This looks hokey, this looks jokey, and it looks like it belongs in the early 2000s. But alright, I’m psyching myself up to get the right carefree, relaxed, open-minded, child-hearted attitude to … Continued
2020 Reviews – All the Bright Places
Is it just me or has the romance genre fallen away? There are actresses like Meg Ryan and Julia Roberts, who are renowned for romance in the nineties. Now who? Is it a reflection of a currently cynical world, or … Continued
2020 Reviews – The Gentlemen
I liked King Arthur: Legend of the Sword and I love Snatch. So, on balance, director Guy Ritchie is still in a good place with me. His bombastic adrenaline-fueled storytelling is a real signature. He’s rightly not as revered as … Continued