Category: review
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I’ve been doing this annual festive film countdown for a fair few years now, and so committed have I become to making sure I have…
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Released in the year I started doing this annual festive nonsense, 2017’s Anna and the Apocalypse has cruelly missed out on prior inclusion due to…
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2015’s Joy reunites director David O’Russell with Jennifer Lawrence, Bradley Cooper and Robert De Niro, following on from their collaborations on Silver Linings Playbook and…
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1995’s Bad Boys is one of my favourite Michael Bay movies. Or at least it’s one of the few Michael bay movies that I don’t…
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2009’s Precious is not an easy watch, detailing, as it does, the harrowing abuse of a teenager. It is, nonetheless, a pretty compelling movie and…
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2019’s Shaft is a sort of reboot/sort of sequel to the 2000 movie of the same name, which was in, itself, a sort of reboot/sort…
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I’m not sure which actor has featured the most often in the various iterations of my annual festive countdown, but Sylvester Stallone has to be…
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Having included the first two Expendables movies in previous iterations of my annual countdown for the most spurious of reasons, it seemed only right to…
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The second Harry Potter movie came hot on the heels of the first, meaning that it largely had all the same charm and many of…
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This year saw a new entry into the Beverly Hills Cop franchise, some 40 years after the original and 30 years after the preceding outing.…
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Notionally based on real-life events, 2017’s American Made doesn’t appear to be too weighed down by fidelity to historical accuracy. Which does make it a…
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Anyone wanting to make a compelling case for the theory that actors are little more than talking props, need look no further than 2016’s ‘Why…
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2019’s Hustlers packs more storytelling into 110 minutes than many a movie with significantly longer running times. A wholly original take on the ‘crime caper’…
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I did, for a few years, have a Facebook account. I didn’t really ever much see the point of it and I haven’t missed it…
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Matthew Vaughn’s 2021 movie The King’s Man is a sort of spinoff/sort of prequel to the British director’s Kingsman film series, the first of which…
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Martin Scorsese’s 2019 epic The Irishman is exactly as good as you’d imagine a Scorsese movie starring Robert De Niro, Al Pacino and Joe Pesci…
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2011’s The Big Year boasts an impressive cast but it is still about birdwatching, which is not the most exciting of subject matters on paper.…
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2016’s War Dogs is loosely based on real events but, one imagines, so loosely that anything resembling fact has been lost along the way. It…
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As December 2024 officially begins today, it is time for my annual tribute to films, which may not have been intended as Christmas movies but…
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According to my understanding of the Gregorian calendar, today is the last day of the year that I have mainly been referring to as ‘2023’.…
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It’s Christmas Eve once more and so once again the folly of my annual advent calendar of movies that are a bit Christmas(ish) must draw…
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I don’t know if 1990’s Home Alone is a good film or not. I honestly can’t be objective about it at all. I’m not sure…
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2008’s Step Brothers is very much the kind of movie you might expect a late 2000’s movie starring Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly to…
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2006’s Starter For Ten is a relatively undemanding coming-of-age comedy that is as quintessentially British as they come. It’s not massively original and a little…
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While my efforts to catalogue every movie with even the most tenuous links to Christmas in the form of an annual Advent calendar might seem…
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I didn’t hate 2005’s The Family Stone but I’m not sure I really liked it all that much either. It mostly seems to be about…
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Having included The Expendables 2 in last year’s Christmas countdown, I felt it only right to revisit the original movie for this year’s efforts. As…
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2021’s The Tomorrow War was denied a cinematic release due to the Covid 19 pandemic, which is a shame because it really is the kind…
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2004’s adaptation of Around the World in Eighty Days is rather a departure from the book. I assume. I’ve never read the book. Prior to…
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2007’s Alvin and the Chipmunks has, to date, spawned three sequels (the first of which was ingeniously entitled The Squeakquel). I haven’t seen any of…
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1997’s Boogie Nights is something of a genre-defying tour-de-force. Certainly it defied any expectations I had prior to watching it, and, for a movie that…
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