If Best Animal Wrangling is an Oscar category, this film is a sure-in. Glendyn Ivin’s film introduces us to the…
I Care A Lot (Amazon Prime / Netflix) ⭐⭐½
Not everyone’s going to stomach J Blakeson’s darkly cynical film, even if it features a tremendous Rosamund Pike as Marla,…
The Rental (Amazon Prime) ⭐⭐½
Actor-turned-director Dave Franco’s directorial debut sees him dip his toes in gently in a small genre picture that’s unambitious but…
The Map Of Tiny Perfect Things (Amazon Prime) ⭐⭐⭐
1993’s Groundhog Day generally marks the arrival of the time loop films as a new sub-genre. Permutations ever since have…
News Of The World (Netflix) ⭐⭐⭐
Thankfully, the latest Paul Greengrass film has nothing to do with phone hacking and a certain disgraced British Sunday tabloid…
A Rainy Day In New York (Amazon Prime) ⭐½
Originally planned for release in Nov 2018 but shelved due to controversy around the writer-director’s private life, it has finally…
Malcolm & Marie (Netflix) ⭐⭐⭐
My last lockdown binge was Sam Levinson’s HBO series Euphoria which nicely dovetails into this film made entirely under pandemic…
Greenland (Amazon Prime) ⭐⭐½
It’s not difficult to make a half decent Gerald Butler film mainly because the bar is set rather low. So…
Hamilton (Disney+) ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Let’s take it as granted that the 11 times Tony-winning Hamilton is a brilliant and inspired piece of theatre put…
Sylvie’s Love (Amazon Prime) ⭐⭐⭐½
A spiritual sibling to La La Land, (without the songs, the contemporary setting and the whiteness of the central couple),…
