Six of the Best: Films Turning Twenty

In a bid to make most of us feel positively mummified, I thought it would be a good idea to take a look at six film that are twenty years old in 2018. There were so many happy memories to choose from...

Rough Night

There was a lot of buzz surrounding Rough Night. The script was subject to an intense bidding war due to director and writer Lucia Aniello’s success with TV series Broad City. With A list talent such...
Hounds of Love

Mary’s Top Ten of 2017

It’s been a funny old year for cinema. There have been extreme highs and lows; breathtaking pieces of craft to sleazy sex scandals. It’s a year when Hollywood really has had to take a goo...
Daddy's Home 2

Daddy’s Home 2

I’m really glad I didn’t read any of the reviews for Daddy’s Home 2 before I went to see it. I don’t think a single critic has had anything remotely positive to say about it, which is a shame because...
Office Christmas Party

Office Christmas Party

After the disappointment that was last year’s Bad Santa 2, Office Christmas Party looked to bring some laughs accompanied with the Christmas cheer. The initial trailer didn’t do much for me and...
The Death of Stalin

The Death Of Stalin

How do you make widespread poverty, fear, labour camps and shootings seem funny? You create a comedy of terrors, of course. Armando Iannucci’s latest scathing satire succeeds in having you laug...

Kingsman: The Golden Circle

Not all heroes wear capes as Mark Vaughan’s Kingsman: The Secret Service showed us in 2015. Adapted from the comic by Mark Millar and Dave Gibbons, Kingsman was a glorious parody of James Bond that c...

Logan Lucky

For someone who had supposedly retired from the film industry Steven Soderbergh has been pretty busy the last few years. He has produced and directed two series of the Critically acclaimed drama The ...

Toni Erdmann

Toni Erdmann did the whole awards circuit last year, coming agonisingly close to scooping the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film (narrowly beaten by The Salesman). Director Maren Ade’s blac...