I went to see the new Paddington film this week. Informally it’s called Paddington 3 but in fact its title is Paddington in Peru. And financiall...
Read MoreA couple of weeks or so ago, Germany’s defence minister, Boris Pistorius, said: “We must be ready for war by 2029.” He meant with Ru...
Read MoreThe end of the world is nigh on three hours long
This film was released last year and is set in 2019. It was shot in Cromer on the North Norfolk coast and based in a world in which the UK is almost p...
Read MoreA trip down memory lane
This has been a difficult year for the film industry. The long-running strike which delayed or halted the making of many movies, and prevented star na...
Read MoreNot an end of this era
A film about a doll leaving a make-believe ‘paradise’ to visit ‘real world’ is bound to demand a large suspension of disbelief...
Read MorePretty in pink
OK, so strictly this is not film: it’s an eight-part adaptation of a book on the Disney+ channel. But these days the crossover is such that it n...
Read MoreThe Fleishmans: far from a fine couple
Fifty years on from the public first becoming aware of a song called Moonage Daydream, this film arrives carrying the same title. (The poster for it i...
Read MoreResplendent with stardust
The Phantom of the Open – I can see the wordplay they’re going for but I think somehow it doesn’t quite work – tells the story of...
Read MoreA true underdog tale of comedy and pathos
The Oscars are coming (on March 27, to be precise) which means we must prepare ourselves for a glut of stories about Olivia Colman. There seems to be ...
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