Having opened the Moro Spanish Film Festival earlier in the year and now screening in general release is the movie industry satire, Official Competition. The film, which stars two of Spain’s most famous actors, Penelope Cruz and Antonio Banderas, is largely a dig at weird, egotistical actors and the slightly ridiculous world they inhabit. Penelope Cruz plays lauded arthouse director
Read moreEverything Everywhere All At Once We recently bemoaned the dearth of original ideas in Hollywood with the roster of current and upcoming films stuffed with sequels, reboots and remakes. Whether or not the incredibly weird existential, sci fi comedy Everything Everywhere All At Once – the brainchild of writer/directors Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, collectively known as ‘the Daniels’ –
Read moreTHE LOST CITY The Lost City is a moderately entertaining romantic comedy adventure in the tradition of Romancing the Stone and Jewel of The Nile with a touch of the historical puzzle solving of National Treasure. While this fluffy film has a few exciting and vaguely amusing moments, a little too often it feels as if the leads, Sandra Bullock
Read moreDog Talk about tempting fate with a movie title. Thankfully, this story of the uneasy friendship between a US army Ranger who served in Afghanistan before being discharged on medical grounds and a ferocious military dog is my no means a dog but it often struggles to deliver a convincing story. Channing Tatum (who co-directed with Reid Carolin) plays war
Read moreThe fiction film featuring the real-life rock band is a dicey venture. On one hand there’s Richard Lester’s 1964 classic A Hard Day’s Night which captured the fun, wit and energy of The Beatles. On the other hand, there’s the 1978 monstrosity KISS and the Attack of the Phantoms, a film so awful the band apparently forbade anyone from mentioning
Read moreThe moderately exciting, occasionally funny but mostly ridiculous Uncharted is based on a popular video game but this dubious mix of archaeological adventure and caper comedy owes just as much to a film like National Treasure. Uncharted is essentially a treasure hunt as bar tender and petty thief Nate Drake (Tom Holland) – a descendant of Sir Francis Drake, no
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