DVD Review: ‘Legend of Barney Thomson’
★★☆☆☆ Robert Carlyle exhibits little flair in his dispensable directorial debut The Legend of Barney Thomson (2015). With a crack-shot cast and well captured...
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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...
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Film Review: ‘Pan’
★☆☆☆☆ A prequel to J.M. Barrie’s beloved Peter Pan, Joe Wright’s Pan (2015) takes the audience back to the war-torn 1940s before young Peter...
Film Review: ‘Hotel Transylvania 2’
★★★☆☆ Adam Sandler’s still profitable career has been in decline in recent years with one critical admonishment after another. This downturn might just be...
DVD Review: ‘London Road’
★★★★☆ The words of real-life residents involuntarily entwined with the horrific Ipswich serial murders of 2006 are uttered verbatim in the innovative and powerful...
Film Review: ‘The Messenger’
★★☆☆☆ Bogged down by a directionless narrative and pedestrian execution, David Blair’s The Messenger (2015) benefits slightly from a committed performance from rising Irish...
Film Review: Hitman Agent 47
★☆☆☆☆ The second adaptation of the successful video game series, Hitman: Agent 47 (2015) is no good whatsoever. Everything about it feels tired and half-hearted,...
Film Review: ‘Trainwreck’
★★★☆☆ Amy Schumer emerges as MVP of Judd Apatow’s Trainwreck (2015), a funny but often imprecise comedy of half measures that provides her with...
Film Review: Mistress America
★★★★☆ Mistress America (2015) – the latest collaboration between on-screen and off-screen partners Noah Baumbach and Greta Gerwig – is an uproarious screwball comedy...
