The Hustle, 2019. Directed by Chris Addison. Starring Anne Hathaway, Rebel Wilson, Tim Blake Nelson, Alex Sharp, Dean Norris, Emma Davies and Ingrid Oliver. SYNOPSIS: A glamorous female con artist takes on a more small-time crook as her protégé, targeting men who underestimate women. There’s something delightful about a well-executed con movie, with all of […]
Movie Review – Where Hands Touch (2018)
Where Hands Touch, 2018. Directed by Amma Asante. Starring Amandla Stenberg, George MacKay, Abbie Cornish, Christopher Eccleston and Tom Sweet. SYNOPSIS: A biracial German girl is persecuted for the colour of her skin during the Second World War, but begins a romance with a Hitler Youth boy in the final years of the conflict. With […]
Movie Review – Amazing Grace (2018)
Amazing Grace, 2018. Directed by Sydney Pollack and Alan Elliott. Featuring Aretha Franklin and James Cleveland. SYNOPSIS: A documentary recorded at the 1972 taping of the titular Aretha Franklin album – the highest selling live gospel release of all time. Aretha Franklin has one of the most goosebump-inducing voices in the history of music. That […]
Evil Dead II with film producer and director Mike Mendez – The Pick of the Flicks Podcast #35
On The Pick of the Flicks Podcast, a different guest drops in every week to chat about their favourite film. This week, film director and producer Mike Mendez discusses the splatter classic Evil Dead II… On the latest episode of The Pick of the Flicks Podcast, horror filmmaker Mike Mendez pops by to discuss his […]
Movie Review – Destination Wedding (2018)
Destination Wedding, 2018. Directed by Victor Levin. Starring Keanu Reeves, Winona Ryder, Dj Dallenbach and Ted Dubost. SYNOPSIS: Two misanthropic singletons bond over their mutual dislike for each other at an opulent wedding in an idyllic paradise. Cinema loves a good dose of misanthropic sniping, with memorable characters littered throughout decades of cinema who enjoy […]
Movie Review – Tolkien (2019)
Tolkien, 2019. Directed by Dome Karukoski. Starring Nicholas Hoult, Lily Collins, Anthony Boyle, Patrick Gibson, Tom Glynn-Carney, Derek Jacobi, Colm Meaney, Pam Ferris and Craig Roberts. SYNOPSIS: The story of J. R. R. Tolkien during his university years, and the wartime experiences that would shape his Lord of the Rings novels. There seems to be […]
Exclusive Interview – Tolkien stars Patrick Gibson, Tom Glynn-Carney and Anthony Boyle on friendship and chemistry
Tom Beasley sits down with three of the cast members of Tolkien to chat about forming the film’s crucial central ‘fellowship’… With Peter Jackson’s epic Middle Earth saga now consigned to cinema history, fans of J. R. R. Tolkien may be a little bereft when it comes to the cinema. That’s set to change this […]
Movie Review – Vox Lux (2018)
Vox Lux, 2018. Directed by Brady Corbet. Starring Natalie Portman, Raffey Cassidy, Jude Law, Stacy Martin, Jennifer Ehle and Willem Dafoe. SYNOPSIS: After surviving a school shooting, a young woman is blasted into the murky world of musical fame. Films about emerging musicians are all the rage right now, with A Star is Born one […]
Movie Review – Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile (2019)
Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil, and Vile, 2019. Directed by Joe Berlinger. Starring Zac Efron, Lily Collins, Kaya Scodelario, Jim Parsons, John Malkovich and Haley Joel Osment. SYNOPSIS: Through the eyes of his long-term girlfriend, we see the net close in on serial killer Ted Bundy, after years of getting away with his violent murders. In […]
Movie Review – Eighth Grade (2018)
Eighth Grade, 2018. Directed by Bo Burnham. Starring Elsie Fisher, Josh Hamilton, Emily Robinson, Catherine Oliviere, Jake Ryan and Daniel Zolghadri. SYNOPSIS: On the verge of high school, an internet-obsessed young girl grapples with her place in the social hierarchy while vlogging about confidence and self-belief. In the vast canon of American high school movies, […]
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