Guns guns guns, blah blah blah… Mel Gibson may have been a little hungry for roles of late, and his character in Jean-Farançois Richet’s Blood Father may fit him like a glove, but the glove is ugly and old-fashioned, unsuited for these times. It is a movie no-one needs, a redundant, obsolete thing. Mel plays an ex-con…
I haven’t seen Marguerite, Xavier Giannoli’s film, still in cinemas, which tells a more fictionalised version of the same story, so I’m not sure how it plays, but screenwriter Nicholas Martin and veteran director Stephen Frears have pulled off a neat trick with the true story of Florence Foster Jenkins: they’ve made it the story of her husband. Hugh…
In the spirit of full disclosure, let me admit, at the very top, that I’m not a fan of villains. Having experienced some villainy in my up-bringing, I don’t relish wallowing in it at the cinema. While I’ll fantasize about villainy, I never side with it. I’m much more hero-oriented (always the Doctor over Daleks,…
Salutations, my little droogies! Let’s get ready for another edition of “What the Hell are you talking about?!” Film News this week! Might be some extra stuff this week because next week, yours truly is off the Las Vegas for the 5th Anniversary Star Trek Convention! I’ll be pretty bust doing Trek-type stuff that involves…
This time around Jason Bourne finds himself pitted against… the Director of the CIA. I seem to remember this was the basis of the first Bourne movie, but it’s been an awfully long time. I didn’t see the last one, with Jeremy Renner instead of Matt Damon, but Damon is back in this one, and he’s become very beefy.…
Rumor has it that best-selling author Robert Ludlum sold the original 1980 Bourne novel, The Bourne Identity, with a one sentence pitch: “What if James Bond got amnesia?” Seems like it’s no accident that both heroes’ names start with the initials J.B. It’s also probably no coincidence that, when left with a choice between Henry Cavill…
If you’ve seen the trailer to Swiss Army Man, you may want to save your money and skip the movie. The film has some deliriously beautiful moments, but unfortunately, they’re given away for free in that ad – beautifully, hugely, with full score, intact in the dark. All the best moments are shown – so what…
John Carney’s Sing Street is a total delight from start to finish, and the best film about the pure joy of making music since We Are The Best! (2013), with which it shares similarities. Like that exuberant, inspiring film, Sing Street is about a group of kids forming a band in the 1980s. The girls in We Are The Best! were in Stockholm,…
Well, despite being at Comicon this week, I am still able to get some all-important film news to you, albeit a tad late. So, let’s find out some stuff! It may hardly be news, but San Diego Comicon International is well under way, and I had the pleasure of being there for Ric Meyer’s Superhero and…
The movie is hilarious and it’s busting more than ghosts. First of all, is it a remake? I was a little afraid of seeing funny women doing Ramis-Murray-Aykroyd impressions. But they didn’t. Then again, if they didn’t call it a remake, people would definitely notice similarities and call it stealing. It’s about scientists bustin’ ghosts…