Author David Brake

It must have been a fascinating pitch. Eli Roth, director of blood-hungry, gore-fascinated Hostel and The Green Inferno, wants to make a family-friendly number, adapting a much-loved novel from 1973. The pitch...

A master of observational cinema, Frederick Wiseman’s more recent films have loosely focused on contemporary American life - from courtrooms, hospital beds, schoolyards and military bases, to monasteries and...

Flavia Castro is the writer, director, editor and producer of Unremember, shown in the Orizzonti strand of the Venice Biennale. With so many recent Latin American films confronting the resurgence of the past,...

It will not shock readers when informed that The Spy Who Dumped Me is not a cinematic masterpiece. This is not to belittle the filmmakers' efforts from the off, but it's important to reset your...

Ewan McGregor is back in cinemas once again as Christopher Robin – now a family man living in London – who receives a surprise visit from his old childhood pal, Winnie-the-Pooh. With a career of 25 years...

The Spanish-American philosopher George Santayana observed that "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." The words of the 20th-century philosopher ring true when watching 2018’s The...

Sicilian Ghost Story is a difficult film to pin down. Without the desire to spoil its content, there is a great similarity narrative-wise to Ridley Scott’s All The Money In The World, released earlier this...

In this latest Dwayne Johnson vehicle, the muscular superstar plays Will Sawyer, a former Navy SEAL who must rescue his family from a skyscraper on fire, whilst going up against a wave of non-descript,...

It’s been six years since Whitney Houston was found dead in a hotel bathtub. Just as when she was alive, Houston has had novels, books, newspaper headlines, music and now movies focused on her decline....

To begin, let’s look back. The original Overboard, of 1987, is a low note in Garry Marshall‘s grand directorial career and provided a vehicle for lovebirds Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn. It was a flop on...

A question that any biographical documentary must face is how do you capture the soul, personality, and genius of your subject matter? McQueen tackles the challenge through a thorough, intelligent, and...

One thing is clear throughout How To Talk To Girls At Parties: the cast and crew had an absolute blast making it. It's just a shame that the filmmakers failed to allow the audience into the fun. It all...

INT. OFFICE CONFERENCE ROOM – DAY Two executives pace in a large conference room. Following Gnomeo and Juliet’s surprise success, the studio begin to plan for a sequel… EXECUTIVE 1: Gnomeo and...

By day Superior Court Judge Craig Mitchell is sentencing some of Los Angeles' biggest criminals but by night he is pounding the notorious streets of Skid Row with recovering alcoholics, drug addicts and former...

A giant gorilla, a super-sized armoured alligator, a flying mega wolf and Dwayne Johnson appear in a film. It’s the beginning of a great joke and therein lies the problem with Rampage. Stuck in attempting to...