After experiencing the incredible Wolfwalkers at last months London Film Festival, I vowed to correct the enormous mistake that I’d made of having never seen a Cartoon Saloon movie before. Director Tomm Moore followed 2009’s Oscar-nominated The Secret of Kells with Song of the Sea, which was also nominated for an Oscar in 2015 but […]
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So I heard going in that this was like Ghost but with kids. I suppose you could sort of say that, but without the feeling, the nuance or the humour. Alexandra Shipp plays Riley, a young girl about to go off to college to study Law. She is head over heels in love with Chris, your
Film #3 on the 100 Movies Bucket List: Mean Girls The third film on my 100 Movies Bucket List is Mean Girls, a film I’ve seen but never had any strong emotion for. Mean Girls stars Lindsay Lohan as Cady, who after living and being homeschooled in Africa for most of her life, must now
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Lost at Christmas is a Scottish romantic comedy following two strangers that team up to try and get home for Christmas after finding themselves stranded in the Scottish highlands on Christmas Eve. As a disclaimer, I am a major cynic when it comes to Christmas films and rarely ever find myself in getting into the
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Released as After Class in the US, Safe Spaces stars Justin Long (Dodgeball, Die Hard 4.0) as a New York City professor, who spends a week reconnecting with his family while defending his reputation over controversial behaviour at his college. It also stars Kate Berlant, Lynn Cohen, and is directed by Daniel Schechter. If you
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Film #2 on the 100 Movies Bucket List: Seven (Se7en) The second film on my 100 Movies Bucket List is Seven, a film I know and love. Seven (1995) is directed by David Fincher and stars Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman, as two detectives investigating a serial killer murdering people according to the seven deadly
I have recently purchased a ‘100 Movies Bucket List’ scratch-off poster, with the intention of finally crossing off all of the classic films I’ve never seen before. However with the current and ongoing COVID lockdowns, now seemed like a perfect time to watch all of the 100 films on this list including those I know
I’m always excited when another new Christmas movie comes along, especially when it looks as fresh and exciting as Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey does. Writer and director David E Talbert originally conceived this story as a musical play, but it now finds its home on Netflix as a feature film, and just in time
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The Hunt follows twelve strangers as they wake up in a clearing with no recollection of how they got there, and soon find themselves hunted for sport by a group of liberal elites. Starring Betty Gilpin, Hilary Swank, Emma Roberts, Ethan Suplee and Justin Hartley, and written by Nick Cuse and Damon Lindelof, The Hunt’s
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Nobody Sleeps in the Woods Tonight is a Polish horror filmabout a group of technology dependent youths visiting an offline summer camp who are terrorised by a danger lurking in the woods. The film follows a small group centred around Zosia (Julia Wieniawa), as they head out from the camp on a 3 day trek into the woods and encounter some very
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Christmas is nearing once again and with it comes yet another Christmas Carol reimagining. However, this is no normal adaptation, this is an extremely unconventional telling; we open with a Victorian family sitting to hear the story of A Christmas Carol with the grandmother reading from the text (she is also our narrator) and the
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Ghosts of War follows a group of American soldiers as they make their way to take up post at a French chateau towards the end of the Second World War, and encounter much more than they bargained for in this slightly above average B movie. Right from the start, this opens with your usual cliched
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The Ringmaster, aka Finale, is a 2018 Danish horror feature film written and directed by Søren Juul Petersen. It is based on Steen Langstrups award-winning book from 2011 ‘Alt det hun ville ønske hun ikke forstod’ (Everything that she wished she did not understand’) and deals with themes involving man’s need for extreme entertainment and
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Saint Frances follows Bridget, floundering in her thirties as she takes a summer job as nanny to Frances, whose parents are preparing for the imminent birth of a second child. Let me start by saying what a joyous and wonderful film this is. It was a pure pleasure to watch and just a brilliantly crafted
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Rebecca is an adaptation of Daphne Du Maurier’s 1938 novel of the same name, following a young woman’s whirlwind romance and her battle to rid her new marriage and home of the shadow of her husband’s first wife. Rebecca as a novel is a classic and a book I very much enjoyed, and whilst I’ve
Finding Steve McQueen is a heist drama centring around a young man who idolises Steve McQueen, and follows him as he joins a gang of thieves as they plot to steal millions from President Nixon’s secret funds. This is loosely based around a true story and is told from the point of view of the
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