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 MoreThis 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 ...
Read MoreA lot of getting lost while Colman hopes to win again
The new James Bond film, No Time to Die, had largely terrific reviews, mostly on the basis of it apparently being a return to what a Bond film should ...
Read MoreGood evening, Mr Bond – I hadn’t been expecting this
Because of Covid, this 2020 film was not released in the UK until earlier this month. The Courier is based on a true cold-war story, the tale of a Bri...
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