Joel and Ellie in The Last of Us Flash back to June 2020, we are mid pandemic and everyone is clamouring for not just movies to watch but new books, games and television to occupy their time. Renowned game company Naughty Dog after initially pushing back the release of their much anticipated sequel to The …
Continue reading We Are Not Heroes: The History of The Last of Us
Letitia Wright in Mangrove Coming late to the party and choosing to binge all of Steve McQueen's Small Axe series of films in one week in early January it was impossible not to notice how wildly different each story told here was from the other. While sometimes it made the experience as a whole inconsistent, …
Ramona Edith Williams and Kelly O'Sullivan in Saint Frances 2020's Indie darling Saint Frances is a film that only comes along once in a while. Prescient of the time its being made and what it wants to convey, Director Alex Thompson's film, working off a script by Kelly O'Sullivan is utterly charming and quiet but …
The cream of the crop this year varies from a stark drama about the foster care system to a horror comedy but each set themselves apart in many different ways and unlike last year where I could point to one film and the year before when two films were equally great and deserving of the …
Continue reading End of Year Review Part 4: The 25 Best Films of 2020 (10-1)
This year I watched more documentaries and that shows in this latest section of my list as I cover numbers 20-11 so without delay, lets get into it. 20. The Whistlers Vlad Ivanov and Catrinel Marlon in The Whistlers Romanian crime thriller The Whistlers is a story of gangsters and corrupt cops and the various …
Continue reading End of Year Review Part 3: The 25 Best Films of 2020 (20-11)
Every year I put up the disclaimer that my list is subjective, its off the UK release schedule and some of the 2020 oscar contenders are in there because of this fact but ultimately I want to start with another disclaimer. 2020 was a good year for movies. It wasn't a good year, plenty was …
Continue reading End of Year Review Part 2 – The 25 Best Films of 2020 (25- 21)
Although you would be forgiven for thinking that 2020 only really had three months of notable film releases before everything went to hell in a handbasket, the movie industry took to the internet with most of their releases to varying levels of success with many studios selling their films to the various streaming giants from …
Continue reading End Of Year Review Part 1: The 10 Worst Films of 2020
Last week I finally stepped foot inside a cinema for the first time since March. To say I was excited would be putting it mildly. It didn't go off as I expected, in fact if I had had the same experience before lockdown I would have said it was an unmitigated disaster but that was …
In the last few days a brewing conflict over how audiences consume content has boiled over thanks to some questionable language used by Universal CEO Jeff Shell when explaining the viability of PVOD (Premium View on Demand) after the success of the entirely online release of Trolls: World Tour. While these comments, which I …
Continue reading Opinion: Cinemas v View on Demand – A History
Last January I began taking my writing and this site more seriously as the year prior I had been wrapped up in a job that didn't do me any favours. This year I fully intended to commit myself to write about every film I saw and connecting with the films I loved watching. For my …
