Category: review
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Despite the fact that Arthurian legend seems to be the perfect source material for a Hollywood epic, there really aren’t too many King Arthur movies…
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Orson Welles’ 1941 masterpiece Citizen Kane is oft described as the greatest movie ever made. I can only assume that the people making that claim…
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2019’s ‘live action’ update of Disney’s Lady and the Tramp doesn’t have any offensive racial caricatures masquerading as cats, which is a notable improvement, but…
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It’s New Years Eve and tradition dictates that I must review the year gone by for fear that no-one else will think to do it…
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I’ve been meaning to watch 1934’s The Thin Man ever since I started doing this pointless annual festive film countdown. I knew it would make…
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1944 musical Meet Me In St. Louis is a film about a family that really like living in St. Louis. I don’t think it would…
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The 1991 incarnation of The Adams Family was my introduction to that creepiest and kookiest of families. Indeed, although I’m sure I saw the 1993…
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I’ve never read the 1969 novel, The Poseidon Adventure but it must be pretty good because it has been adapted three times for the screen.…
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I had no interest in watching 1995’s While You Were Sleeping. Ever. I haven’t entirely swerved rom-coms in my annual advent compendium of movies that…
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I often have misgivings about movies that are based on real life events, and similar misgivings about movies that win ‘Best Picture’ at the Academy…
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2013’s I Give It A Year is a sort of anti-rom-com, about a ‘happily ever after’ that doesn’t pan out the way it is supposed…
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A slow-moving film centred around nineteen-fifties haute-couture would normally be a pretty hard sell for me. But when it is written and directed by Paul…
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The plot of 2017 drama ‘The Wife’ does rather hinge on a twist, and it is quite a predictable twist. But just because you can…
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Unlike Lady and the Tramp, I don’t recall ever watching 101 Dalmatians as a child. I’ve seen it a few times as an adult, most…
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A movie which centres around one man trapped on an island for five years definitely runs the risk of being a bit..well…dull. While such an…
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Having included Bridget Jones Diary in last year’s Christmas(ish) movie countdown, I felt it only right that I revisit the 2004 sequel to explore its…
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When I included 1995’s Jumanji in last year’s iteration of my advent calendar I received a couple of comments that suggested that the 2017 relaunch…
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2018 action-thriller Peppermint is rarely thrilling and I’m not entirely sure why it’s called Peppermint. It often feels like a straight-to-DVD affair but I think…
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I’m not sure if I can genuinely describe Disney’s 1955 classic, Lady and the Tramp as a childhood favourite. I suspect, in fact it was…
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I don’t know if it’s fair to describe 2012’s Silver Linings Playbook as a rom-com; it is a movie that is hard to pigeon-hole but…
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2016’s La La Land has enough critical acclaim and a whole raft of awards (though it famously only held the Academy Award for Best Picture…
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2005’s Four Brothers is exactly the kind of movie I enjoy watching when I don’t really want to have to think too much about what…
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It’s a somewhat quirky fact that the person who brought the world ‘Mad Max’ is also, at least partially, responsible for 1995’s saccharine-sweet family-friendly flic,…
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2020’s ‘The 2nd’ is the kind of low budget action movie that, once upon a time, might have been described as ‘straight-to-video’ and is the…
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Spoiler Alert – If you haven’t seen this 2004 movie and you still intend to watch it some 17 years after it was released then…
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2015’s Daddy’s Home is a run of the mill comedy vehicle for Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg. It’s fairly predictable, eminently forgettable and even at…
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Unless I’m much mistaken it is now December and therefore it must be time for The Fifth Annual James Proclaims Advent Calendar of Christmas(ish) Films.…
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And so another A-Z comes to an end. From tomorrow I will no longer be writing about music from the noughties. I may not be…
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As ever, when we get to the penultimate day of an A-Z challenge, we must ask ourselves ‘Y’. It can be hard to come up…
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On last year’s A-Z I had to cheat a little bit for X by including XTRMNTR by Primal Scream. The main reason this was cheating…
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And so to ‘W’ in this A-Z musical retrospective of the noughties. There were a few decent albums from the 2000s that began with ‘W’…
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