Bodies is a new limited series now available to stream on Netflix. Based on a graphic novel of the same name, the mind-bending, time-travel thriller brings a refreshingly new and interesting take to the detective crime genre. The 8-episode series opens in London in 2023 with DS Shahara Hasan (Amaka Okafor), as she heads to […]
Premiering at this year’s Venice Film Festival, Ferrari is the latest film from Michael Mann. Starring Adam Driver, Penelope Cruz and Shailene Woodley, the screenplay is adapted from Brock Yates’ book ‘Enzo Ferrari: The Man and the Machine‘. Following a time of financial and personal insecurity in the car manufacturer’s life, the film opens to
Finalmente l’albe (Finally Dawn) is a 2023 period drama premiering at this year’s Venice Film Festival. Starring Rebecca Antonaci and Lily James, it follows a young Italian woman who finds herself on a night-long adventure with glamorous starlet Josephine Esperanto (James). There have been plenty of stories over the years that follow the lives of
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Oppenheimer is the latest release from visionary director Christopher Nolan, following the creator of the atomic bomb. While the tone of this film is certainly much more adult and serious than his previous material (yes even Dunkirk), this is undoubtedly yet another Nolan masterpiece. Starring Cillian Murphy as the titular J. Robert Oppenheimer, the film
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When the Tetris movie was first announced I had visions of Pixels, the 2015 movie starring Adam Sandler, and I couldn’t help but imagine it being some kind of cheesy sci-fi action movie with Tetris blocks falling from the sky. Thankfully, we have Taron Egerton instead, in an entertaining, if not somewhat convoluted at times,
She Said follows two New York Times reporters, Megan Twohey (Carey Mulligan) and Jodi Kantor (Zoe Kazan), as they interview and gather sources in order to break the story surrounding the abuse perpetrated by a creepy, high-powered producer in the entertainment industry. As these two reporters dig deeper into the allegations, the story expands more
Ridley Scott’s The Last Duel features the story of… well, the last judicially recognized duel, or trial by combat in France on 29 December 1386. The duel was between Sir Jean de Carrouges (Matt Damon), and Jacques le Gris (Adam Driver), after Marguerite de Carrouges (Jodie Comer), accuses le Gris of rape. The massive 2-hour
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The Eyes of Tammy Faye is based upon a documentary by the same name, involving Tammy Faye and Jim Bakker. The Bakkers were a team of televangelists who preached that greed was good, and Jim was eventually prosecuted and thrown in jail for fraud. First, let me get this out of the way, I am
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The Auschwitz Escape (AKA The Auschwitz Report) features the true story behind the Vrba-Wetzler report, which was instrumental in highlighting the atrocities taking place in Germany’s concentration camps, and was Slovakia’s submission for Best International Feature Film for the 2021 Oscar. While the film definitely illustrates the stark bleakness of the camps, the events depicted
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Sophie: A Murder in West Cork, is one of Netflix’s newest true-crime series offerings. Consisting of three episodes, the series examines the murder case of Sophie Toscan Du Plantier, a French National that was murdered at her rural holiday getaway home in Schull, Ireland in 1996. Du Plantier’s murder was the first in over 100
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Murder by the Coast, or El case Wanninkhof-Carabantes, is a Spanish true-crime documentary, and one of the newest documentary films on Netflix. The film is a little less than an hour and a half and focuses mainly on the murder of Rocio Wanninkhof in 1999 in the small town of La Cala de Mijas, on
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It’s A Sin is the latest drama from the mind of Russell T Davies, the man behind Queer as Folk, Cucumber and the revival of Doctor Who back in 2005. It follows a group of gay men and their friends in London from 1981 to 1991, depicting how the developing HIV and AIDS crisis impacted
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Misbehaviour is a 2020 drama directed by Philippa Lowthorpe and based on a true story that follows a group of women from the Women’s Liberation Movement as they attempt to disrupt the 1970 Miss World pageant being held in London. Misbehaviour made a decision to follow four separate stories as they eventually intersect at the
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The Trial of the Chicago 7 is Aaron Sorkin’s second foray into directing, a dramatisation of the true story of 7 people on trial following the events at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois. The film centres around what is effectively a sham of a trial, and aside from a few flashbacks and prep scenes, it is virtually set entirely
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Based on a C.S. Forester novel The Good Shepherd, and a screenplay by Mr Tom Hanks himself, Greyhound is the latest movie to feature Hanks in the role of brave Captain, returning once more to World War II territory. Any hopes that this might be a return to the grand heights of Saving Private Ryan
If you were to describe Dark Waters to someone who has not seen the trailer or the film, you could say it is Spotlight (2016) meets Erin Brockovich (2000), which is exactly how it was put to me. Loving both of those movies I was really looking forward to watching this. The film is based
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