Director: Andrij Parekh Starring: Regina King, Jean Smart, Tim Blake Nelson, Hong Chau, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Jeremy Irons Who watches the Watchmen…? Answer: everybody should be. Watchmen on HBO is easily one of, if not the best, TV show on TV at the moment, and Episode 4, called ‘If You Don’t Like My Story, Write Your Own’,…
Director: Rick Famuyiwa Starring: Pedro Pascal and Nick Nolte The Mandalorian Episode 1, called simply Chapter One, was a lot of fun and was just as good as I had hoped it would be. Yet, that didn’t stop people from writing some negative reviews about the first episode of this new Disney Plus Star Wars…
Director: James Mangold Starring: Matt Damon, Christian Bale, Caitriona Balfe, Jon Bernthal, Tracy Letts, Josh Lucas and Noah Jupe Le Mans 66 (or Ford v Ferrari in the US) feels at home on the big screen. It’s where this story always belonged. On the biggest possible screen. Why, you ask? Because this is an incredible…
Director: Dave Filoni Starring: Pedro Pascal, Werner Herzog, Nick Nolte, Taikia Waititi, Carl Weathers The Mandalorian is finally here – unless you like outside of the US, Canada and The Netherlands – as the very first episode, Episode 1, of this brand new Star Wars show lands on Disney Plus. This has easily been one…
Director: Stephen Williams STARRING: JEAN SMART, 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. AND JEREMY IRONS SPOILERS: There are SPOILERS for Watchmen Episode 3 in this review. “Stop me if you’ve heard this one before.” Watchmen Episode 3, called…
DIRECTOR: PHIL ABRAHAM STARRING: JOHN KRASINSKI, WENDELL PIERCE, NOOMI RAPACE, JORDI MOLLÀ, MICHAEL KELLY AND TOM WLASCHIHA WARNING: SPOILERS for Jack Ryan Season 2 Episode 2 in this review! Things are really heating up in Venezuela in Jack Ryan Season 2 Episode 2, called Tertia Optio. The episode see’s John Krasinski back as the CIA analyst, Jack Ryan, and he’s now…
Director: Phil Abraham Starring: John Krasinski, Wendell Pierce, Noomi Rapace, Jordi Mollà, Michael Kelly and Tom Wlaschiha WARNING: SPOILERS for Jack Ryan Season 2 Episode 1 in this review! Jack Ryan Season 1 was one of my biggest surprises of last year. I really didn’t expect to enjoy it, but John Krasinski was just so…
DIRECTOR: NICOLE KASSELL 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. AND JEREMY IRONS SPOILERS: There are SPOILERS for Watchmen Episode 2 in this review. Watchmen Episode 1 had us intrigued. Now Watchmen Episode 2 has us thoroughly hooked….
Director: Nicole Kassell 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. and Jeremy Irons SPOILERS: There are SPOILERS for Watchmen Episode 1 in this review. HBO’s Watchmen has finally arrived and after watching episode 1, I couldn’t help but…
Director: Mike Flanagan Starring: Ewan McGregor, Rebecca Ferguson, Kyliegh Curran, Cliff Curtis When I first heard that Mike Flanagan was going to be making Doctor Sleep, the sequel to Stephen King’s book The Shining and Stanley Kubrick’s film of the same name, I couldn’t wait to see it. I firmly believe that Flanagan is one…
Director: Craig Brewer Starring: Eddie Murphy, Keegan-Michael Key, Mike Epps, Craig Robinson, Tituss Burgess, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Wesley Snipes Dolemite Is My Name comes from Hustle And Flow’s director, Craig Brewer and tells the story of filmmaker Rudy Ray Moore, who’s best known for having portrayed the character of Dolemite in both his stand-up comedy…
Director: Robert Eggers Starring: Robert Pattinson, Willem Dafoe In the late 19th century, a man by the name of Ephraim Winslow (Robert Pattinson) is sent to serve a contract as a lighthouse keeper along with his supervisor Thomas Wake (Willem Dafoe) for four weeks on a remote island. Robert Eggers’ 2016 directorial debut The Witch…
Director: Rian Johnson Starring: Daniel Craig, Chris Evans, Ana de Armas, Jamie Lee Curtis, Michael Shannon, Don Johnson, Toni Collette, Lakeith Stanfield, Katherine Langford, Jaeden Martell, Christopher Plummer Knives Out is the work of writer/director Rian Johnson, the man who gave us Star Wars: The Last Jedi, and who many Star Wars fans want to…
Director: Todd Philipps Starring: Joaquin Phoenix, Robert De Niro, Zazie Beetz When it was revealed that Warner Bros. Pictures and DC Comics had greenlit a standalone Joker movie, I was slightly suspicious. I didn’t feel that the character needed to be revisited after Heath Ledger’s turn as the infamous DC Comics villain. And after having…
“When people get desperate, the knives come out.” This is the line that stuck out the most to me in the new trailer for Rian Johnson’s upcoming murder mystery thriller, Knives Out. Already this film looks brilliant on paper. The writer/director of Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Brick and Looper. A frankly ludicrously talented cast,…
Director: David Leitch Starring: Dwayne Johnson, Jason Statham, Idris Elba, Vanessa Kirby, Cliff Curtis and Helen Mirren Ok, so answer me this question: how can you make a huge summer blockbuster hit and it not be tied to a superhero property? Answer: get Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham in a movie together and tie it…
Directors: Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, Rodney Rothman Starring: Shameik Moore, Hailee Steinfeld, Mahershala Ali, Jake Johnson, Liev Schreiber, Nicolas Cage This isn’t the first time Spider-Man has taken animated form. There has been a shed load of Spider-Man cartoons, and some of them have been rather good. Yet, Spider-Man: Into The Spiderverse might be not only…
Director: Christopher McQuarrie Starring: Tom Cruise, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Rebecca Ferguson, Sean Harris, Michelle Monaghan and Alec Baldwin Roger Ebert once referred to a sub-genre of action cinema that he referred to as the “bruised forearm movie”. The kind of film that isn’t just exhilarating, but is relentless in its action to a point where you find yourself grabbing the arm of…
Director: Ari Aster Starring: Toni Collette, Alex Wolff, Milly Shapiro, Ann Dowd, Gabriel Byrne That a film deserves to be ‘treated with the same respect we have for The Exorcist, The Shining, and Psycho’ is a bold claim, but that is the quote (courtesy of Dazed and Confused) emblazoned across the poster for Ari Aster’s debut feature, Hereditary. Indeed, the…
Director: J. A. Bayona Starring: Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, B. D. Wong, Rafe Spall, Justice Smith, Daniella Pineda, James Cromwell, Toby Jones, Ted Levine, Jeff Goldblum After 25 years and several sequels of, shall we say, variable quality, some of the novelty has started to wear off the dinosaur-delivering Jurassic franchise. Sadly, this latest entry sees the series continue to teeter towards extinction: though director J….
