Perhaps only Star Wars fans rival Bob Dylan fans in their adoration for their subject. Consequently, a film such as the Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown was always going to be met with rabid expectation and scrutiny. One of the biggest questions was ‘what sort of music biopic would it be?’. So many, including the Ray Charles and Whitney Houston
Read moreThe aroma of chocolate filled the air as an eager Sunday morning preview audience filed into the Rivoli cinema for a screening of Wonka a mostly fun, good natured but thinly-plotted musical origin story for the mercurial chocolate maestro Willy Wonka. This is not an adaptation of any specific work by author Roald Dahl whose 1964 novel Charlie and the
Read moreBased on the combined biographies of author Nic Sheff and his father David, Beautiful Boy potently depicts Nick’s descent into methamphetamine addiction. Rising star Timothee Chalamet (Call Me By Your Name, Ladybird) plays Nic, an intelligent aspiring writer who, as a teenager, is still trying to come to terms with his father David’s (Steve Carell) break-up with his mother Vicki
Read moreLike a more lyrical, more physically and metaphorically sunlit Brokeback Mountain, Call Me By Your Name ,which is based on the novel of the same name by Andre Aciman, is a homoerotic tale bathed in Mediterranean summer heat and high culture. Young up and comer Timothee Chalamet, who also co-stars in the Greta Gerwig’s excellent directorial debut Ladybird, stars as
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