Franco Zeffirelli’s distinguished 1977 British-Italian religious drama film Jesus of Nazareth finds a perfect star in Robert Powell as Jesus, in this deservedly much acclaimed and widely shown, all-star biblical epic. Director Franco Zeffirelli’s distinguished […]
While not entirely satisfactory or completely satisfying, there are many very good things about co-writer/ director Dan Bush’s edgy and tricksy 2017 horror thriller The Vault. Certainly, it is in the interesting category. When it’s a […]
Ironically, though it was a sweaty evening at the cinema with the aircon not working, this 2017 crime drama, mystery movie is ultra-chilly in every way. Shot in snowy landscapes, it is very cold, bleak, intense and […]
There is nothing good to say about director Simon West’s espionage action thriller Stratton (2017), lamely and limply based on the book series written by Duncan Falconer. Dominic Cooper took over at the last minute from Henry Cavill as […]
With director John Carpenter’s Assault on Precinct 13 (1976) and Halloween (1978) both profitably remade, it inevitably comes the turn of remaking his daft and unconvincing 1980 spook chiller The Fog. With the original being so feeble, there […]
Writer-director Francis Lee’s intense 2017 film God’s Own Country is very persuasive and winning, with strong, searing performances by Josh O’Connor, Alec Secareanu, Gemma Jones and Ian Hart. Up on Yorkshire’s version of Brokeback Mountain, […]
National treasure Bill Nighy is excellent as London copper John Kildare doggedly on the trail of a Victorian Limehouse serial killer. He involves himself in the fate of Lizzie Cree (Olivia Cooke), who is about to be hanged […]
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