Showrunner: Damon Lindelof Starring: Regina King, Don Johnson, Tim Blake Nelson, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Andrew Howard, Jacob Ming-Trent, Tom Mison, Sara Vickers, Dylan Schombing, Louis Gossett Jr., Jeremy Irons, Jean Smart, and Hong Chau WARNING: There are SPOILERS for Watchmen Season 1 in this review. ‘Who watches the Watchmen?’ I hear you ask. Answer: everybody…
Showrunner: Jon Favreau Starring: Pedro Pascal, Carl Weathers, Werner Herzog, Nick Nolte, Gina Carano, Bill Burr, Richard Ayoade, Giancarlo Esposito and Taika Waititi WARNING: There are SPOILERS for The Mandalorian Season 1 in this review. The Mandalorian Season 1 was easily one of the most eagerly anticipated TV shows of 2019. Star Wars just could not…
Director: Taika Waititi Starring: Roman Griffin Davis, Taika Waititi, Scarlett Johansson, Rebel Wilson, Stephen Merchant, Alfie Allen, and Sam Rockwell Taika Waititi is definitely flavour of the month in Hollywood right now and it’s pretty easy to see why – his films are all brilliant and it’s tough to think of a director working today…
Director: J.J. Abrams Starring: Carrie Fisher, Mark Hamill, Adam Driver, Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Oscar Isaac, Anthony Daniels, Naomi Ackie, Domhnall Gleeson, Richard E. Grant, Lupita Nyong’o, Keri Russell, Joonas Suotamo, Kelly Marie Tran, Ian McDiarmid, and Billy Dee Williams WARNING: Full SPOILERS for Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker in this review. Star Wars:…
Director: J.J. Abrams Starring: Carrie Fisher, Mark Hamill, Adam Driver, Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Oscar Isaac, Anthony Daniels, Naomi Ackie, Domhnall Gleeson, Richard E. Grant, Lupita Nyong’o, Keri Russell, Joonas Suotamo, Kelly Marie Tran, Ian McDiarmid, and Billy Dee Williams This review of Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker will be as SPOILER-FREE as humanly…
Director: Rick Famuyiwa Starring: Mark Boone Junior, Bill Burr, Natalia Tena, Clancy Brown, Richard Ayoade and Ismael Cruz Cordova WARNING: Potential SPOILERS for The Mandalorian Episode 6, called The Prisoner, in this review. Now, this is what I wanted from The Mandalorian series on Disney Plus! It’s taken the show a while to get to…
Director: Michael Bay Starring: Ryan Reynolds, Mélanie Laurent, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Adria Arjona, Corey Hawkins, Ben Hardy, and Dave Franco OK, let’s get one thing straight. Anybody who tries to tell you that Netflix’s new Michael Bay movie, 6 Underground, is the director’s return to form, they’re either lying, or they’re being sarcastic (insinuating that Bay…
Director: Edward Norton Starring: Edward Norton, Bruce Willis, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Bobby Cannavale, Cherry Jones, Alec Baldwin and Willem Dafoe What’s it like being involved in a movie which you wrote, directed, produced and starred in. One of the very few people who can answer that question is Edward Norton, who did exactly all those things…
Director: Nicole Kassell Starring: Regina King, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Jeremy Irons I’ve said this time and time again. Watchmen is 2019’s best TV show, and what Damon Lindelof, his writers’ room and the show’s directors have done a remarkable job in making a genuinely impressive follow-up to Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ graphic novel. Watchmen…
Director: Dave Filoni Starring: Pedro Pascal, Jake Cannavale, Ming-Na Wen, Amy Sedaris I’ve been really enjoying The Mandalorian, but I’ve had a nagging suspicion that the show was flirting dangerously close to an over-reliance on fan-service, and Episode 5, called The Gunslinger, is proof of that fact. Episode 5 of The Mandalorian starts off with…
Director: Jesse Warn Starring: Melissa Benoist, Stephen Amell, Caity Lotz, Brandon Routh, Katherine McNamara, Ruby Rose, Grant Gustin Crisis On Infinite Earths is finally here. It’s the biggest crossover event The CW has ever done with their DC Comics-based TV shows, and it’s been a long time coming, but I’m not entirely sure if it’s…
In 2005 Noah Baumbach released The Squid and the Whale, a film telling a story of divorce witnessed from the perspective of two children. It was a film full of anger and confusion, as events far beyond the control of its two young leads spiralled out of control in front of them. Fourteen years later…
Director: Jennifer Kent Starring: Aisling Franciosi, Sam Claflin, Baykali Ganambarr, Damon Herriman, Harry Greenwood, Ewen Leslie, Charlie Shotwell and Michael Sheasby It’s not very often that a film comes around and rocks you to your very core, but that’s what happens with Jennifer Kent’s incredible follow-up to The Babadook, The Nightingale. I think I might…
Director: David Semel Starring: Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Regina King, Jean Smart, Hong Chau and Jeremy Irons WARNING: Potential SPOILERS for Watchmen Episode 7 in this review I’ve said this time and time again, Watchmen is the best show of 2019, and Season 1 hasn’t even finished yet, and Episode 7, called ‘An Almost Religious Awe’,…
Director: Bryce Dallas Howard Starring: Pedro Pascal, Gina Carano, Julia Jones WARNING: There are some SPOILERS for The Mandalorian Episode 4 in this review. This is what I was slightly worried about when I was watching the most recent episode of The Mandalorian. I was worried that this new Star Wars live-action TV show was…
Director: Stephen Williams Starring: Regina King, Don Johnson, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II and Jovan Adepo WARNING: There will be spoilers for Watchmen Episode 6 in this review. What really makes good television? I’ve been asking myself that a lot recently, and one of the main reasons I’ve been mulling over that questions again and again in…
Director: Martin Scorsese Starring: Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Joe Pesci It is remarkable how time and experience shape the way storytellers view certain genres. Martin Scorsese has made far more movies outside of the crime genre over his 50-year career, and yet he consistently returns to the worlds of criminals and gangsters. No two…
Director: Deborah Chow Starring: Pedro Pascal, Carl Weathers and Werner Herzog WARNING: Potential SPOILERS for The Mandalorian Episode 3 in this review. The Mandalorian has proven to be one of the TV events of the year, and frankly, it’s no wonder it has, and with The Mandalorian Episode 3, called The Sin, the show starts…
Director: Steph Green Starring: Regina King, Jean Smart, Tim Blake Nelson and Jeremy Irons Watchmen Episode 5, entitled Little Fear of Lightning, is all about Tim Blake Nelson’s Wade Tillman, otherwise known as Looking Glass. His character is one of the most interesting characters in the show. The first time you meet him, your brain…
Director: Frank Capra Starring: James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore, Thomas Mitchell, Henry Travers, Beulah Bondi, Ward Bond, Frank Faylen and Gloria Grahame When you think of Christmas, what’s the first film that jumps into your head. For me, it’s always been one: It’s A Wonderful Life (closely followed by Die Hard, but let’s not…
