Review: Captain Marvel (2019) – Higher, Faster, Backwards?

It's 2019, we've been watching Marvel films for over 10 years and have witnessed origin stories for almost all of the heroes that fill up the Marvel Cinematic Universe and while each is unique to its specific characters they all push new and exciting boundaries that bring them to life in a way that makes …

Review: The Aftermath (2019) – The Future Is Bright

While it would be easy to say that Kiera Knightley is having a good year after watching Colette, I'm pretty sure she just doubled down. While it might not be as culturally relevant or sexually expressive as her prior work (despite trying to be the latter) it is equally as important and vital thanks to …

Catching Up: An Evening With Beverly Luff Linn (2018) – What?

When watching anything there is usually a Eureka moment for me when I can say what that film is about. Be it something personal to just me or a grand theme that the director is prodding at in his own little way. That never came while watching Jim Hosking's latest surreal comedy for the very …

Review: Destroyer (2019) – Down The Rabbit Hole

When trying to think of a title for this review my mind went to all the Nicole Kidman films that have come before and the one that I remembered most vividly was Rabbit Hole. A film about grief and climbing out of the pit of despair that consumes you, it is the exact opposite of …

Blogathon: The Film That Started It All

Think this is a great idea to discuss why different people fell in love with cinema. I’ll be taking part. Any takers?

Let's Go To The Movies

The Film That Started It All Blogathon 

We all have that one truly special film, the one that really made your love for film and cinema so deep. I thought it would be a fantastic idea to share this with each other and it could really create some positive thoughts and discussion. 

The film does not have to be the greatest ever made, just the one that you relate to as your biggest influence in terms of loving film and cinema! I have had this idea for quite a while now and after so many negative comments and attitudes on Twitter recently I felt we all needed do think positively about the films we love! 

Dates: April 19th-22nd 2019 

This gives more than a month to get involved and I thought it would be ideal to do this over the long Easter bank holiday weekend. So…

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Review: Paddleton (2019) – Breaking In On The End

Death in cinema is common, characters die all the time. Sometimes its sad, sometimes its violent and other times its strangely laughable. We all have different reactions to death and more often than not, film has the ability to trivialise it while basing much of a film's emotion around the simple notion that death affects …

Review: On The Basis Of Sex – Extroverted & Exaggerated

Two months ago I watched the excellent documentary RBG, a thoughtful dissection of the life of supreme court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. You can read my thoughts on that here. Thanks to that thoughtful, emotional and honest character study, I like to think that there are elements of the woman who are unique, special even …

Review: The Kid Who Would Be King (2019) – Unbalanced & Unfocused

I'm not sure what has changed in the eight years since Attack The Block came out but Joe Cornish's latest just doesn't have the same zest to it that his debut did. While it might be his transition to the fantasy genre or the fact that his latest is strangely political for a kids film …

Review: High Flying Bird (2019) – I’m Sexy and I Know It

Thanks to my brother having his first child I have found myself in an interesting position of working 14 hour days managing his pub while he gets used to the whole fatherhood thing. While personally I think it might take longer than 10 days, that is what I have agreed to and as I write …