Category Archives: Film

Film Review: Rocketman (Taron Egerton and Jamie Bell)

Posted on June 6, 2019 by

Unlike the review cited below1 I consider this biopic in terms of what we’re missing today. Obviously Rocketman is trite depending on a sing-a-long narrative. The recurring thread is Elton in an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting coupled with flash backs. This … Continue reading →

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Film Review: Stan and Ollie (Steve Coogan and John C Reilly)

Posted on January 14, 2019 by

This film resonated on so many levels that it’s difficult to pinpoint exactly why I was bowled over. The final scene in Ireland showed the debt that Morecambe and Wise owed to them but there was so much more. The … Continue reading →

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Film Review: Sorry to bother you (Lakieth Stanfield and Armie Hammer)

Posted on December 17, 2018 by

Black director Boots Riley has outshone Spike Lee’s BlackkKansman. Riley has simultaneously created a searing indictment of institutional and unconscious racism, a satire on telemarketing and a vicious attack on American capitalism. Cassius Green (Lakieth Stanfield) is a wonderful character. … Continue reading →

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Film Review: The Girl in the Spider’s Web (Claire Foy)

Posted on December 3, 2018 by

There’s nothing so attractive to Hollywood as a money-making franchise. The Scandi-noir novels about the idiot savant Lisbeth Salander (Claire Foy) has definitely come of age. Their version has all the tropes deemed necessary for a serious money-making film. The … Continue reading →

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Book and Film Review: Raymond Chandler ~ The Big Sleep (1939) and (1946- film)

Posted on November 26, 2018 by

The doyen of American pulp fiction is Raymond Chandler. I knew this even though I’d never actually read his work. I relied on the brilliant, Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, film The Big Sleep (1946). So I was unprepared for … Continue reading →

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Film Review: Hostiles (Christian Bale and Rosamund Pike)

Posted on October 15, 2018 by

Captain Blocker (Bale) is a hugely conflicted soldier in the Old West. His colonel orders him to return a native Indian chief to Montana. He’s taunted by a journalist about his reputation for brutal treatment. Blocker then uses the Nazi … Continue reading →

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Film Review: Performance (James Fox and Mick Jagger) (1970)

Posted on June 12, 2018 by

An archive film from 1970 might not seem interesting, especially as it’s a pathetic attempt to cash in on Jagger’s fame and notoriety. Jagger was presumably intended to emulate the cute Beatles. Performance absolutely isn’t Help! What the producers got … Continue reading →

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