You’d have to have been hiding under a rock to not know that the much-awaited series 6 of Line of Duty has hit our screens. After all the hype, cliffhangers and the promise of finally revealing who the elusive “H” is, was it worth the wait? Yes… and no. Line of Duty is probably the […]
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I feel like I have been waiting a really long time to write this review. But nowhere near as long as us poor Brits have been waiting for the release of this film. Promising Young Woman finally arrives in the UK today via Sky. If you managed to avoid any and all spoilers over this
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No doubt inspired by the huge success of Enola Holmes last year, Netflix now appears to have gone Sherlock Holmes crazy with its upcoming releases. On top of more adventures with Millie Bobby Brown as Enola Holmes, there’s also a ‘Sherlock Junior’ movie currently in development, as well as talk of a ‘Sherlock’s Daughter’ series.
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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
What if a simple DNA test could match you to your one true love? And how far would you go to find The One? Well, if that idea sounds vaguely familiar then it might be because you’ve watched the show Soulmates, which recently released on Amazon Prime and covers a very similar concept. The One,
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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Film #15 on the 100 Movies List: The Departed The Departed is Martin Scorcese’s Oscar-winning Irish gangster film released in 2006, a remake of the 2002 Hong Kong film Infernal Affairs, and loosely based around the real-life Boston Hill Gang led by Whitey Bulger. It’s a film I remember watching when it was first released
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In a world filled with YouTubers and social media influencers, it was inevitable that eventually we’d get a film shot in the style of a social media stream. We’ve seen similar with films like Unfriended and Searching, taking on the likes of social media whilst shot entirely from a webcam. However Spree is the first
Ava is a 2020 spy action thriller directed by Tate Taylor and starring Jessica Chastain. It follows Ava (Chastain), an assassin working for a shadowy organisation who soon becomes hunted by her own, led by the mysterious Simon (Colin Farrell). Between missions and death threats, Ava is aided by her handler Duke (John Malkovich) while
Film #7 on the 100 Movies Bucket List: Snatch Snatch (2000) is Guy Ritchie’s second film following on from his hugely successful debut, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998). Critically, Snatch wasn’t quite as well-received as it’s predecessor, but the general movie-going public found it a lot more enjoyable, and personally, I agree with
The Untouchables is a film that has garnered a great deal of acclaim over the years, and yet if I’ve ever seen it, I’m ashamed to admit that I don’t remember it. The Untouchables (1987) was directed by Brian De Palma and stars Kevin Costner as Eliot Ness, a treasury agent who recruits a group
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Available on home entertainment on the 30th November, Les Misérables is the Oscar-nominated film written and directed by Ladj Ly. My first knowledge of Les Misérables (aside from the infamous musical) was that it was the film chosen by France for the International Feature Film Oscar category in the most recent awards season. Normally this
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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
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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