Film Review: ‘Home’
★★★☆☆ Jim Parsons and Rihanna lend their vocal chords to Home (2015), DreamWorks Animation’s mildly entertaining alien adventure comedy. It delivers plenty of humour...
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23 April 2020
Film Review: Astronaut
★★★☆☆ Richard Dreyfuss stars in Astronaut, Shelagh McLeod feature film debut, in which she also doubles up as screenwriter. It’s a low-key affair that...
2 July 2019
Edinburgh 2019: Synonyms review
★★★★☆ Golden Bear-winning cultural assimilation drama Synonyms is expertly handled by its director Nadav Lapid. That of relocating, whether it be by city, country...
2 July 2019
Film Review: Mrs Lowry & Son
★★☆☆☆ Five years after portraying J.M.W. Turner in Mike Leigh’s award-winning biographical drama Mr Turner, Timothy Spall takes on the role of another English...
Jamie Neish
Glasgow 2015: While We’re Young to open festival
Glasgow Film Festival co-directors Allan Hunter and Allison Gardner took to a makeshift stage at the citizenM hotel to announce the full programme for...
Film Review: ‘Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb’
★★☆☆☆ There was an effortless charm to the original Night at the Museum (2006) that made it more than passable family fare, albeit of...
Film Review: ‘Horrible Bosses 2’
★★☆☆☆ Jason Bateman, Charlie Day and Jason Sudeikis reunite for Horrible Bosses 2 (2014), a predictably bland and entirely unnecessary sequel to the 2011...
Film Review: ‘Horns’
★★★☆☆ Daniel Radcliffe takes another unexpected step in his capricious metamorphosis, transforming from iconic boy-wizard Harry Potter, to a man-turned-devil in Alexandre Aja’s uneven...
Film Review: ‘This Is Where I Leave You’
★★☆☆☆ Shawn Levy, director of Night at the Museum (2006) and Date Night (2010), takes a break from his usual comedy-heavy fare to direct...
Film Review: ‘The Book of Life’
★★☆☆☆ Experienced animator Jorge R. Gutierrez teams up with fan-favourite producer Guillermo Del Toro for his directorial debut The Book of Life (2014), a...
Film Review: ‘The Hundred-Foot Journey’
★★☆☆☆ Lasse Hallström revisits familiar territory with The Hundred-Foot Journey (2014), a warmly lit but cloyingly corny and drama-free adaptation of Richard C. Morais’...
