Clooney’s TV star is forced to take stock If you are patient enough to sit through end titles you might notice that the MPAA certificate number at the end of films has now passed 50,000 (if you are curious, number 50,000 was actually a non-entity of a film called “Chloe and Theo”, with “Steve Jobs” … Read more
A raucous buddy comedy… and stuff. I’m sure this film is going to divide audiences, in the same way that “Kingsman” did.  It’s 1977 Los Angeles. Star Wars has premiered. Disco is in full swing. And porn star Misty Mountains has just died (spectacularly). It’s pretty disturbing then that dodgy licensed private investigator Holland … Read more
H is for Hologram. I is for Inconsistent. J is for Jumble. K is for King. In terms of bankable movie experiences, you can seldom go wrong with a Tom Hanks movie can you? While there are a few pages in his portfolio he might prefer to forget (“The Bonfire of the Vanities” anyone?) his movies … Read more
The recent success of the superbly staged BBC production of John Le CarrĂ©’s “The Night Manager” with Tom Hiddleston and Hugh Laurie must have been music to the ears of the producers of “Our Kind of Traitor”. Was it the case that the film was held back by the studio for that very reason – … Read more
Gregory’s Commitments. Ah, the joy and pain of first love!  Young Conor (aka Cosmo, played in his impressive debut by Ferdia Walsh-Peelo) has the smelly end of a shitty stick to deal with while growing up in 1980’s Dublin. He has warring parents with the need – for financial reasons – to move Conor from … Read more