Cyrano – Review Carmen Paddock February 23, 2022 Reviews With at least eleven faithful and a dozen loose adaptations of Cyrano de Bergerac committed to film, Wright’s return to top romantic form stands out as a musical. The plot remains the same: soldier and poet...
I Care a Lot – Review Carmen Paddock February 20, 2021 Reviews Marla Grayson (Rosamund Pike) wants everyone – sworn on God before the court – to know her heart is gold. Polished, honeyed phrases say all the right things: she is worried about her elderly charges, she...
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri – Review Jack Blackwell January 7, 2018 Reviews A sensationally funny and affecting dark comedy, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri arrived at Venice just as the festival was hitting a slump, and reinvigorated it with a fiery passion. Martin...
The Boss – Review Bertie Archer June 12, 2016 Reviews The Boss is at best a continuation of Get Hard, that ill-though-through Will Ferrell (who incidentally produces The Boss) “comedy" of yesteryear, in which our cretinous central character is jailed despite...
The Angry Birds Movie – Review Phil W. Bayles May 15, 2016 Reviews A mobile game most people use to pass time on the toilet is not the ripest material for cinematic adaptation. The writers of The Angry Birds Movie know this, and their solution is to throw as many jokes as...
Pixels – Review Cameron Ward August 14, 2015 Reviews Pixels is probably fine if you have nothing better to do. Narrative inconsistencies and total changes within the film’s own logic seem to come out of nowhere every few minutes – though I guess none of...
X-Men: Days of Future Past – Review Tom Bond May 13, 2014 Reviews 2 Comments Empire. X-Men. 25 covers. 1 issue. It was more worrying than exciting. How on earth would Singer combine two franchises into one coherent film? Answer: very, very well. The cast serve the story, not their...