A Chinese family discover that their matriarch has only a few months left to live when she is diagnosed with lung cancer. They choose to keep the news from her and schedule a wedding as a means to bring the whole family together for a celebration. The Farewell is based on writer/director Lulu Wang’s life … Continue reading The Farewell
Inspired by a true story Hustlers is about a group of strippers who seek less legal means of making money when the financial crisis of 2008 dries up their custom. Feeling very much like a companion piece to The Wolf of Wall Street and with the rise of the women’s illegal activities taking the feel … Continue reading Hustlers
Twenty seven years after the Loser's Club survived the terrors of Pennywise the Clown they have all moved on from Derry with the exception of Mike Hanlon (Isaiah Mustafa). With children going missing again Mike calls his now estranged friends back to finish off the job they thought they completed as children. 2017's It was a brilliant … Continue reading It: Chapter Two
FBI informant Pete Koslow (Joel Kinnaman) is attempting to buy his freedom in exchange for providing information on a Polish mob boss when a drug deal goes wrong and a New York policeman is killed. With his boss livid, the FBI threatening to abandon him and the NYPD looking hard into the death of one … Continue reading The Informer
Two teenage scientific geniuses in Brooklyn have been working on a time machine, but when they hit upon success they find themselves using it for a cause they never would have expected. I found my way to this Netflix film via a list of "best films of 2019 so far" and whilst what I watched … Continue reading See You Yesterday
In this podcast with the At the Flicks team we discuss who we think are the actors of the current generation. You can find the pod here...At the Flicks Pod
In this podcast I discuss my Coen Brothers article You can find the podcast here... At The Flicks Pod And my original article here... The Coen Brothers Retrospective
Secret Service Agent Mike Banning (Gerard Butler) is back for the third time to save the President of the United States from assassination attempts. Although this time taking a page out of The Fugitive playbook, Mike is actually arrested for the crime and has to break free to prove his innocence and stop the real … Continue reading Angel Has Fallen
Dora the Explorer hits the big screen and quite frankly, it’s great! Opening with a young Dora (Madelyn Miranda) and Diego’s (Malachi Barton) adventures before showing us Diego leaving for the big city we then fast forward ten years to a Dora (Isabela Moner) who may be an expert Jungle explorer but who doesn’t know … Continue reading Dora And The Lost City Of Gold
When four teenagers find a story book in a haunted house they find the stories are more powerful than they could imagine. Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark is a clever way to tell an anthology horror story. Based on a book published in 1981 by Alvin Schwartz and keeping very faithful to the … Continue reading Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark
