Tenet

DISCLAIMER This film was viewed in a cinema and this review should in no way be taken as an endorsement of returning. The author of this review is based in Scotland where there are extensive distancing measures in place and the cinema is an activity that is considered relatively safe as long as restrictions are…

Going in Style

Three old men decide to rob the bank involved in the deal that sees them deprived of their jobs as well as their hard earned pensions in Zach Braff’s Going in Style. Heist movies are fairly common things to find at the cinema. There’s are certain things you can always expect to see and the…

Now You See Me 2

Jon M. Chu’s Now You See Me 2 is the sequel that nobody asked for to a film that –as far as I can tell- nobody loved enough to want to see more. It must have made money otherwise we wouldn’t be here. This time out, the Horsemen are tasked with stealing a computer chip…

Youth

Paul Sorrentino’s Youth casts Michael Caine as a retired orchestra conductor on holiday with his daughter and best friend when he receives an invitation from Queen Elizabeth II to perform for Prince Philip’s birthday. Youth is a very strange film as there is a lot to like about it but I never found myself enjoying…

On the Silver Screen – Kingsman: The Secret Service

Matthew Vaughn’s Kingsman: The Secret Service is a stylish and quirky take on the spy genre based on the comic book The Secret Service created by Dave Gibbons and Mark Millar from the wonderfully insane mind that brought us Kick Ass. Taron Egerton plays street kid Gary ‘Eggsy’ Unwin who is recruited by Colin Firth’s Harry Hart/Galahad to join…

On the Silver Screen – Interstellar

Christopher Nolan’s sci fi epic Interstellar hits UK cinemas. Matthew McConaughey’s Joseph A. Cooper goes on an unprecedented voyage to the other side of the universe via a wormhole to look for solutions to the problem of Earth being unable to sustain the human race any more. Due to the nature of this film and…