Film
Not Forgotten – Grosse Pointe Blank
Grosse Point Blank. The 1997 comedy based around a professional killer returning home for his 10 year high school reunion. You’ve seen it, right? Martin Blank (John Cusack) prepares to shoot someone as part of his latest contract, as his assistant Marcella (Joan Cusack) reads him the invitation to his high school reunion over the …
Classic Film: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
What do you get if you take the hottest actor and hottest actress in late 1950s Hollywood with the most atmospheric and angst ridden of Tennessee William’s plays, and shake it all up to make a movie? You get Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Based on Tennessee William’s play of the same name, the movie …
Film Review – Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation
I’ll be honest. I’m biding my time until we get Tom Cruise back with a buzz cut and in Aviator shades. I’m waiting for a second big dollop of Maverick. In the meantime, Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation will have to do. Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) is back with his IMF chums to try to uncover …
Film Review: Magic Mike XXL
I have never seen stripping in real life, not from either gender, despite growing up at a time when young women seeing The Chippendales seemed to be something of an aspiration and Spearmint Rhino became commonplace in city centres, so let’s just say seeing the original Magic Mike was a bit of an eye opener. …
Classic Film: Gypsy
The BBC pitched it right this Easter Monday. Instead of people venturing outside into the lovely Bank Holiday sunshine, they were watching the television for a screening of a well-loved musical, tweeting the lyrics or trying to get the fact that they’d performed a near perfect rendition of Rose’s Turn into 140 characters. Such is …
Film Review: Into The Woods
What do you get if you blend Cinderella, Rapunzel, Little Red Riding Hood and Jack and The Beanstalk with Stephen Sondheim? Well, once upon a time… Into The Woods is a film adaptation of the Stephen Sondheim and Jame Lapine musical, which jumbles several different fairy tales to create a dark and delightful story. The …
Film Review – Kingsman: The Secret Service
It’s funny when you see a film poster and you get heartsink. Colin Firth looking slightly Bond-esque framed by a woman’s open legs just doesn’t do it for me. Good job I didn’t let it put me off too much. Harry Hart (Colin Firth) is an old fashioned spy from an underground network fronted by …
Not Forgotten At Christmas: Elf
There are a handful of Christmas films I always aim to see every year. High up on my list of must-see festive movies is Elf, so when I got a chance to see it on the big screen this holiday season, I recruited a friend and packed the mince pies for the screening. Honestly, there …
Not Forgotten At Christmas: Die Hard *
*for the purpose of this review and in homage to my cinema companion, Bruce Willis will be referred to as Bruiser throughout. It was a stroke of genius that caused Cineworld Sheffield to put Die Hard in their schedule of classic movies on a cold, dark Monday night in December, a stroke of genius that …
Film Review: Interstellar
Some films sneak into the cinema with only a smidgeon of promotion. Others bash the cymbals, crash the drums, have months of hype and millions of dollars spent on a campaign that takes expectation beyond the stratosphere into the stars. In the case of the latter, the film has got to be good. After much …