cinema review

I had a film review in the bag from Dublin, but for an exotic change here’s one filed all the way from a holiday in London instead, where a certain…

It’s rare that I give in to a flood of YouTube ads all but begging me to go and see a film but my interests were piqued in the distinctly…

Cinemagoers could be forgiven for feeling that they’re under siege at the moment – big budget blockbusters and particularly miserable June weather alike are pummeling people. So, for those looking…

This week, our resident cinema buff takes on the latest rendition of the classic Hellboy. I can’t call myself a Hellboy expert, but I’d liked the relatively recent films (2004,…

In most films, the baddies are always ‘The Other’ – some external force, figure or agency that poses a threat to be overcome. Ripley had to defeat the xenomorph in…

At this stage, it’s hard not to think of Liam Neeson lazily hamming it up as something of a walking cliche, given his seemingly endless conveyor belt roles of Relentless…

It seems that 2019 isn’t off to a great start, so far, with bitter winds and snow to the south, and all that Brexit madness to the east, as just…

IN NETFLIX’S War Machine, Brad Pitt plays the charismatic general Glen McMahon, newly appointed the command of NATO forces in Afghanistan. Beloved by his men, baffling to most everyone else,…