Based on the true story of Nick Sheff (Timothée Chalamet) and the drug addiction that impacted him and his family as told through the eyes of his father David Sheff (Steve Carell), Beautiful Boy is a sometimes difficult look at addiction and its impact. The film is based on two memoirs, one written by David … Continue reading Beautiful Boy
Cassius Green (Lakeith Stanfield) is living in his uncle's garage struggling to make ends meet. But when he gets a job at a telemarketing firm and adopts his “white guy voice” things start to look on the up. Until that is, he witnesses the lengths to which capitalism will go to for the almighty dollar … Continue reading Sorry To Bother You
Serial bank robber Forrest Tucker (Robert Redford) and his two OAP pals (Tom Waits and Danny Glover) are working their way around the U.S. robbing banks when Detective John Hunt (Casey Affleck) catches a whiff of their trail and Forrest meets and falls for Jewel (Sissy Spacek). What is perhaps Redford’s final stint in front … Continue reading The Old Man & The Gun
Into the Spider-Verse has the sort of dimension hopping plot that is hard to explain but easy to follow. Set in the universe of new Spider-Man Miles Morales, we get to see him get to grips with his new powers whilst fellow Spider-People help him foil the plans of some well known super villains. Opening … Continue reading Spider-Man Into the Spider-Verse
In 1962 Italian-American Tony Vallelonga (Viggo Mortenson) is hired by African-American pianist Don Shirley (Mahershala Ali) to be both his driver and fixer whilst on a music tour of the Deep South. Very early in the film we are shown just what Tony thinks of black people by his reaction to a couple of workers … Continue reading Green Book
Adonis Creed (Michael B. Jordan) is making a legacy for himself having proved his worth in the heavyweight arena only for the son of the man who killed his father to step out of the shadows and challenge him. In today’s political climate, 33 years after Rocky IV was released it is interesting that the … Continue reading Creed II
The latest version of The Grinch is a beautifully animated story from Illumination, which means that the kids will also be treated to a short film with The Minions before the main feature. The story does not stray from the original too much, so you know that everyone should understand by the end that Christmas … Continue reading The Grinch (2018)
The Coen Brothers latest film is a Western anthology of 6 stories whose only overlap is that they explore the harsh realities of frontier life and death. It started life as the Coen’s first ever foray into television with it initially being a 6 part series for Netflix, but morphed into a film in the … Continue reading The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
The Christmas Chronicles is Netflix big push for this years Christmas movie crown, something that we see less of at cinema these days, certainly of the live action variety. Subscribers will have found it difficult not to have seen it in their email, notifications and menu screens. Produced by Hollywood veteran Chris Columbus, director of … Continue reading The Christmas Chronicles
The latest iteration of Robin Hood is a monumentally bad film. I know I don’t normally start my reviews like this, but I feel it is only fair that I suitably lower your expectations in order to give you the best chance at any enjoyment from it. The film starts with a voiceover that explains … Continue reading Robin Hood (2018)
