FILM REVIEW | Magic Mike XXL
The Kings of Tampa are back! The men, strippers from the 2012 film Magic Mike, return with a sequel – Magic Mike XXL – and they are back with a […]
FILM REVIEW | Tiger Orange
Wade Gasque’s debut feature, which he co-wrote with lead actor Mark Strano, is an interesting drama about the conflict between two estranged gay brothers who are trying to reconcile after the death of […]
FILM REVIEW | Triple Crossed
★★ | Triple Crossed After he had finished his posting serving in the military in war-torn Afghanistan during which time he witnessed his best friend being killed, Chris Jensen is […]
FILM REVIEW | Testament of Youth
★★★★★ | Testament of Youth This is one of those titles you may know, you’ve seen it somewhere or have heard of the author, Vera Brittain… it rings bells. But […]
FILM REVIEW | More Than Friendship
★★★ | More Than Friendship Twenty-something-year-olds Lukas, Mia and Jonas have been best friends since their childhood, but then three years ago this all changed. They fell in love with […]
FILM REVIEW | A Most Violent Year
★★★★★ | A Most Violent Year Ok, a film that’s set in 1980 (my era) and stars Oscar Isaac (W.E. and Inside Llewyn Davis) and Jessica Chasten (Interstellar and Zero […]
FILM REVIEW | Rosewater
This rather tense drama opens with Iranian journalist Maziar Bahari been awoken by Investigators in his mother’s house in Tehran and subsequently hauled off to jail. Then in a flashback, […]
FILM REVIEW | Private Romeo
★★★★★ | Private Romeo Over a weekend eight male high school cadets are left behind when the rest of the McKinley Military Academy go away on an exercise and they […]
FILM REVIEW | Futuro Beach
★★★★★ | Futuro Beach Karim Ainouz’s mesmerising melancholic drama starts and ends in a very similar fashion. In the opening scenes we see two motor bikers racing across the sand […]
FILM REVIEW | Glassland
When John is not goofing off with his best friend Shane, he is driving his taxi around some of the seedier downtrodden neighbourhoods on the fringes of Dublin looking for […]
FILM REVIEW: Elsa And Fred
★★★★ ELSA AND FRED | Newly widowed Fred has been coerced by his control freak of a daughter to sell his large house and move into an apartment in New […]