OK, I confess. I really didn’t want to like this film. It has all the makings of a real turkey… a zombie movie with a Z in the title… isn’t that going to be like a B-movie but 25 times worse? But, despite my best instincts, I really did enjoy this flick. The plot doesn’t … Read more
So, the “Man of Steel” is back…. again! Christopher Nolan has a lot to answer for with Batman Begins in bringing to the world of cinema the concept of ‘the reboot’. Before that film, fictional characters were deemed to have followed an arc and when the audience got tired of them they were either spectacularly killed … Read more
Behind the Candelabra is not for the prudish or the homophobic. It tells the no holds barred story of Lee Liberace – an entertainer who astonishingly hid his homosexual status for over 50 years behind a smoke-screen of self promotion and law suits: an age before twitter and the internet, where the only expression for … Read more
Adapting F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925 novel seems fraught with danger, as film critics and lovers of the book will sharpen their barbs to fire at any such film sticking its head above the parapet. Critics it has had a plenty, but Baz Luhrmann’s film is something wondrous to look at. The recreation of the decadence … Read more
(It is almost impossible to give a review of this film without spreading spoilers. I will be careful: others may be less so… so I suggest you avoid reviews for a few days if you want to enjoy the film). Star Trek: Into Darkness is the second film in the franchise reboot by the … Read more