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...
On the morning of Friday 26th of October last year, my phone absolutely exploded with messages from friends and colleagues asking how I was taking the news. As a lifelong Kevin Spacey fan, the swathe...
With the emphasis in Hollywood firmly, and correctly, being placed on equality it seemed like a good time to take a look at some of the strongest female presences on screen today. These women have pr...
Hell or High Water, David MacKenzie’s modern ode to old school Westerns is impossible to ignore and, once seen, harder to forget. That’s thanks in no small part to the laconic charm of the legendary ...
Slow motion is the go to guy when you want to underline a scene. Whether you’re trying to evoke emotion, draw attention to a specific act or, frankly, just look really cool, slo-mo is the director – ...
Of all the criticisms that have been directed towards The Last Jedi by fans who are unhappy, to say the least, with Rian Johnson’s take on the saga it seems that the most absurd is the news rep...
Well, 2017 has of course been a tumultuous year in politics what with the rise and rise of Trump and the waning and wilting of the so-called left, however, cinema has and always will be a welcome for...
Overall it has been a very good year for movies. There were a number of big budget films that failed to deliver at the box office leading the usual headlines about the death of cinema as we know it. ...
I don’t find it comfortable criticising a film. The two hours of entertainment you see on the screen is the product of months, if not years, of hard work from a lot of very talented people. Hav...
David’s Top Ten of 2017 It’s almost the end of another year, and with that film fans far and wide will be compiling their lists of what movies tickled their cinematic fancy. So not to be ...