‘You messed with the wrong dude’ – My Spy (2020) Review
15 years after Vin Diesel’s The Pacifier mixed spy work with babysitting duties, My Spy, at first glance, may look like something similar. A big tough guy that looks completely out of place when put into a situation where he has to deal with children, but this one is...
‘They ask you what was the high point’ – Jersey Boys (2014) movie review
Jersey Boys has been a hit musical all over the world since it first opened in 2005, and has been seen on Broadway, in the West End and in Melbourne, as well as multiple touring productions. In 2014, Clint Eastwood brought the stage show to the big screen and in a...
‘It’s official, old buddy. I’m a has-been.’ – Once Upon A Time In Hollywood (2019) Review
From the mind of director Quentin Tarantino comes Once Upon A Time in Hollywood, a film which both highlights and tears apart the final few years of the golden age of Hollywood, focusing on the story of actor Rick Dalton as he tries to find success in movies in the...
‘Life all comes down to chance’ – Love, Wedding, Repeat (2020) Review
Let’s be honest here, we are all stuck at home with little else to do but sit in front of the television and scroll endlessly through streaming services and Netflix certainly knows what they are doing by pumping out new content on a seemingly weekly basis. One of...
‘So you see, the story is not quite as you were told’ – Maleficent (2014) review
You can always rely on Disney to twist something around and change the tale just when you think that you know the whole story. Before they started concentrating on live action remakes of their animated classics, Disney took one of those classics and turned it on it’s...
‘The perception of reality is more real than reality’ – Billionaire Boys Club (2018) review
Released in 2018, part biography, part crime thriller Billionaire Boys club stars Ansel Elgort and Taran Egerton as spoilt rich boys Joe Hunt and Dean Karny. Wanting to make their own fortunes instead of sponging off of other people’s, they establish a get rich quick...
‘Jamie is over and Jamie is gone’ – The Last Five Years (2014) review
With the tagline ‘there are two sides to every love story’, Jason Robert Brown’s The Last Five Years is a deconstruction of a marriage set almost entirely to music. We meet Cathy and Jamie, a struggling actress and a successful writer, and are taken through the story...
‘No one listens to Springsteen anymore. He’s history!’ – Blinded by the Light (2019) review
The power of music is sadly often underestimated in today’s society, where in reality it can have a huge impact on someone’s life. Music can be a comfort in difficult times, a way of bringing people together and an inspiration to many. Power can be found in the...
‘You’re a writer, so write’ – Late Night (2019) review
Late night talk shows may not be much of a thing here in the UK, but over in the US they are big business, and to pioneering talk show host Katherine Newbury (Emma Thompson) they are everything. Used to be top dog in her field, when she discovers that her ratings are...
‘Put it in O, for Onward!’ – Onward (2020) review
Released into cinemas just at the exact moment when people were really beginning to need an escape from the real world, Disney Pixar’s Onward provides the escapism we are all looking for. Set in a fantasy land where magic has been long forgotten in favour of modern...
‘We’re not beautiful, we’re not ugly, we’re angry’ – Misbehaviour (2020) Review
50 years ago, the Miss World competition was one of the biggest annual television events in the world, watched by millions and adored by the majority. But something was stirring. Not everyone liked the way in which the women competing to become Miss World were judged...
‘She hates happy endings’ – Isn’t It Romantic (2019) Review
I think that it is safe to assume that most people have a film genre that they completely hate. For me, it’s action movies, the sort with endless car chases, predictable plot twists and story lines that seem to actually go anywhere. For Natalie in 2019 comedy ‘Isn’t...