With its marvellously gorgeous production and beautiful gleaming, retro-style photography, director Brad Silberling’s 2004 Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events is a dream-looking children’s film, based on three of the books by Lemony Snicket […]
Director Sidney Lanfield’s pleasing 1951 black and white comedy stars Bob Hope as New York City swindler Sidney Milburn, aka The Lemon Drop Kid, a race-track tout who owes big bucks to a gangster crook […]
Director Thomas Vinterberg’s sterling, well-told, convincing, compelling film version of the true-life tragic story of the 2000 Russian K-141 Kursk submarine disaster is a worthwhile, immersive but challenging and harrowing experience. Kursk: The Last Mission […]
Writer-director Jim Jarmusch’s cool zombie comedy The Dead Don’t Die (2019) is consistently amusing throughout, with a whole lot of laughs and chortles. It is the knowing comedy of irrelevance, sarcasm, throwaway lines, absurdities and […]
Screenplay-writer/director Gary Dauberman’s 2019 horror thriller Annabelle Comes Home is a weak and cheesy Conjuring Universe episode, starring Mckenna Grace as Judy, the young daughter of Lorraine and Ed Warren. The Seventies demonology couple take possession […]
Director Herman Yau’s high-octane 2019 Chinese gangster action thriller The White Storm 2: Drug Lords is robust, dynamic and exciting, with the execution more original and impressive than the story, plotting and characters, perhaps inevitably, as […]
Twenty years on director Peter Bogdanovich films a sequel to his first triumph The Last Picture Show (1971), with almost all the original special cast returning. It is set 32 years on in the summer […]
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