Tom Clancy’s Without Remorse is, unsurprisingly, the latest film adaptation of a Tom Clancy novel, telling the origin story of a popular character, John Clark, from the Jack Ryan universe. While the popularity of Clancy’s novels is undeniable, Without Remorse is sadly one adaptation too far and offers us nothing but a dull, unoriginal take […]
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The final episode of Marvel’s second ‘official’ tv series, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier dropped at the weekend, wrapping up what has been a rather different and more subdued experience than what we saw with WandaVision. It’s difficult not to compare The Falcon and the Winter Soldier to WandaVision, but the two couldn’t be
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After months of hype and award nominations, Sound of Metal has finally arrived on our screens courtesy of Amazon Prime. And boy was it worth the wait. Written and directed by Darius Marder (writer of The Place Beyond the Pines), Sound of Metal follows Ruben Stone (Riz Ahmed), a heavy metal drummer in a fairly
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Fear of Rain is a 2021 psychological thriller written and directed by Castille Brandon, which follows a young woman with schizophrenia struggling to deal with her hallucinations. While this tries very hard to make you as a viewer question what’s real and what isn’t, ultimately it comes off as a little too predictable. Madison Iseman
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Here Are the Young Men is a 2021 Irish drama written directed by Eoin Macken, based on the book of the same name by Rob Doyle. With its surreal scenes, it almost feels like it’s trying to be a modern-day Irish version of Trainspotting for the younger generation, and while it no doubt represents teenage
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Antebellum is a 2020 thriller film from debut writer-directors Gerard Bush and Christopher Renz, the trailer for which implied it was a mind-bending, time-travelling horror story set during the times of slavery in America. However Antebellum never manages to live up to what it promised, turning out instead to be a rather dull and predictable
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Film #17 on the 100 Movies Bucket List: Little Miss Sunshine Little Miss Sunshine is a quirky gem of an indie film from 2006 that whilst a favourite of mine and Oscar-nominated, has likely flown below the radar for many mainstream viewers. Which is a huge shame as this is such a fun, heartwarming and
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Sensation is a 2021 sci-fi thriller from Slovakian director Martin Grof, the latest in a long line of films to feature people with superhuman abilities. The plot here focuses on a group of people with newly discovered sensory powers that can influence and control the senses of others, as they’re confined within a large manor
If you’ve seen the trailer for Willy’s Wonderland, you were no doubt wondering what on earth your eyes had just been witness to, and I’m afraid the full film doesn’t get any less demented. Willy’s Wonderland is a 2021 horror-comedy from director Kevin Lewis that is every bit a modern-day B-movie, complete with cheesy script
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I’m Not in Love is a 2021 rom-com from director Col Spector that follows a thirty-something whose love life flounders when his girlfriend gives him an ultimatum about marriage and children. Despite the rather relevant subject matter, I’m afraid I couldn’t fall in love with I’m Not in Love. Al Weaver stars as Rob, a
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Silk Road is a 2021 thriller from writer/director Tiller Russell, focusing on the true story of Ross Ulbricht who created and operated the darknet marketplace of the same name, selling drugs and other illegal items across the globe. On paper, Silk Road sounds like it should be a fascinating, interesting story and even the trailer
Film #16 on the 100 Movies Bucket List: Monty Python’s Life of Brian Life of Brian (1979) is an old school comedy classic, and alongside Python’s take on the Holy Grail, were fairly revered comedies when I was growing up and I doubt there are many people over a certain age that haven’t seen these
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The Witches is a 2020 retelling of the Roald Dahl children’s story, from director Robert Zemeckis. Remakes and reboots have been commonplace in the movies for quite some time, so it’s no surprise that The Witches has been given a Hollywood makeover, especially as it has been 30 years since the original film adaptation was
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WandaVision is the latest Marvel series to hit the small screen, arriving in a flood of hype as the first official series to tie in with the rest of the MCU. Initially, I hadn’t been interested in this after struggling to enjoy previous Marvel series, however after discovering that everyone I know was watching this,
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The Adventures of Wolfboy, also known as The True Adventures of Wolfboy, is a 2021 coming of age style drama and the feature film debut from Czech director Martin Krejcí. It follows Paul, a teenager with a life-changing physical condition called congenital hypertrichosis that causes an abnormal and excessive amount of hair growth across his
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Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel is the latest stylised true-crime documentary from Netflix, and it’s a pretty scary watch, but not in the way you’d expect from something that has been advertised as a supernatural murder mystery. The 4 episode documentary series focuses on a notorious hotel in downtown L.A, Hotel Cecil,
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