Oppenheimer – Review
“Now I am become Death, destroyer of worlds.” Christopher Nolan’s biopic of J. Robert Oppenheimer, based on Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherman’s book, American Prometheus, weaves effortlessly between the...
Category Archives: Kenneth Branagh
Tenet – Review
Tenet, the film they said would save cinema … Christopher Nolan makes a return to the big screen in 2020 with his all new sci-fi thriller, a film which he has written and directed. The film follows J...
Murder On The Orient Express – Set Design Featurette
One of the films that stood out last year for a number of reasons was Murder On The Orient Express. The lavish adaptation of the best-selling Agatha Christie novel was brought to the screen by Kennet...
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...
Murder on the Orient Express
I am someone who can lose an entire Sunday to episodes of Murder She Wrote or Columbo. A good murder mystery can be enjoyed over and over again – even if you already know “whodunnit”. Such is the cas...
Dunkirk
I thought I had read and seen everything there was about the Dunkirk evacuations. But I had never really seen the faces of the thousands of young men, desperate to get home, bravely facing off the Lu...
Murder On The Orient Express: First Trailer
One of the biggest ensemble dramas of the year has aired its first trailer. Agatha Christie’s famous ‘whodunnit’ Murder On The Orient Express is being revamped and released in cinem...
Mindhorn
Ah, Mindhorn. How I wanted you to be so much more than what you were. When I first saw the trailer for Sean Foley’s film, it looked like the type of tongue-in-cheek, playing it straight humour that y...
Dunkirk – Teaser Trailer
Just released is the first trailer for the highly anticipated film from the acclaimed director Christopher Nolan. Dunkirk is a well-known story and a low point for the British Army. This was the poin...
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
The tale of the man and the monster has been told countless times in cinema either directly or by taking the main elements of the story and tailoring them as required. In 1995, Kenneth Branagh was at...