When you see vagrants sleeping rough in doorways it is grimly fascinating to wonder how they got there. Was it a gradual descent due to drink or drugs? Or was it an ‘explosive decompression’ – an event so dramatic it capsized an otherwise stable existence? In a gripping pre-title sequence, it is the latter that sets … Read more
Brooklyn tells the riches to riches story of a pampered child growing up in the care of his famous Premier League footballing father (Joe Pasquale) and his undernourished pop-star mother (Keira Knightley)……..  (No, I’m only kidding.  But the biopic of Beckham Jnr at would make a cracking screenplay wouldn’t it?) More seriously, when the … Read more
I can see this film dividing opinion, since bike fanatics (of which the UK has a high number) will seek to pick holes in the reality of the story and staging in the same way that a locomotive fan will point out that the 4472, “Flying Scotsman” shouldn’t have been in a film set in … Read more
Spectre is premium Bond. But it’s not quite the perfect film that the hype of the 5* reviews might suggest. We learn a few new things: some more of the back history of Bond; that switches in Bond cars don’t always work the way you expect; and that Ralph Fiennes really can’t run very elegantly! … Read more
I can only hope that the creators of “The Lobster” – Greek writer/director Yorgos Lanthimos and his co-writer Efthymis Filippou – find treatment at a good drug-rehabilitation clinic. A black and disturbing comedy, it can only be the creation of medically warped minds. David (Colin Farrell) checks into a remote Irish hotel with his brother … Read more