In a move that can easily be dismissed as money-grabbing, Pixar has now made Andy’s favourite film from the first…
Good Luck To You, Leo Grande ⭐⭐⭐⭐
If, like me, you prefer a thoughtful script with credible dialogue and unshowy performances with hidden depth over spectacles and…
Swan Song ⭐⭐⭐
Writer-director Todd Stephens’ no-frills indie film is, according to its opening titles, inspired by a true icon, a flamboyant gay…
Jurassic World Dominion ⭐⭐⭐
As the second Jurassic trilogy reaches its grand finale, and despite breaking the dinosaurs out into the real world in…
Fire Island (Disney+) ⭐⭐⭐½
Residing subversively in a conspicuously glamorous corner of Disney+ is actor/writer/podcaster Joel Kim Booster’s inspired adaptation which puts the Pride…
Top Gun: Maverick ⭐⭐⭐½
Beginning with an identical montage replicated/cut-and-pasted from the 1986 original accompanied by Kenny Loggins’ ear-wormy Danger Zone, this ‘sequel’/’re-quel’ is…
Get Carter (1971) (4K restoration) ⭐⭐⭐½
Now considered a British classic, watching Mike Hodges’ revenge drama on the big screen with this fine 4K digital print…
Chip ‘n Dale: Rescue Rangers (Disney+) ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Even though I didn’t grow up with the 1989 animated series to which this acts as a ‘reboot’/reference point, it’s…
Everything Everywhere All At Once ⭐⭐⭐⭐
After 2016’s Daniel Radcliff farting corpse film introduced us to the quirky inventive madness of Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert,…
Cabaret (1972) (50th Anniversary reissue) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Having seen this only on the small screen, this is my first cinematic experience of Bob Fosse’s 8-times Oscar-winning musical…
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