Review: Spectre
Sky(fall)’s the limit. James Bond’s 24th outing reputedly had more than a few troubles in production, ranging from creative differences to total last-minute rewrites of entire sections. This happens far more […]
Category Archives: Film
Thanks, Back To The Future
In 1992, seven years after *Back To The Future* came out, I bought a guitar and a skateboard, and it was directly responsible for both. One of those lasted no […]
Review: It Follows
Behind you. There’s been much discussion as to what the ever-creeping terror in *It Follows* represents – STDs, AIDS, the dangers of promiscuity, the end of puberty, the inevitable chase […]
Review: American Ultra
Improbable as it may seem, it’s not Jessie Eisenburgs’ transformation from anxiety-stricken stoner to peerless fighting machine that causes *American Ultra* to stumble. In fact, the choreography of the fight […]
The Problem With Bored Ghostbusters
There’s a new *Ghostbusters* movie incoming, one that fills the boots of the titular paranormal exterminators with female ankles and has *Bridesmaids* and *Spy* director Paul Feig using his comedy […]
Dak Vs The Empire
The moment all our *Star Wars* hope died. I hadn’t meant to buy Dak. I mean, who wants to buy Dak? No-one, apparently. He stood there in his tiny box, […]
Review: X-Men: Days Of Future Past
The latest *X-Men* film is a spectacular affair, a high-budget and frequently hilarious reassertion of the franchise after the dreadful *X3: The Last Stand* and *Wolverine* movies. It features all […]
Review: Under The Skin
You can put it away now: the idea that the unnervingly attractive Scarlett Johansson only became a superstar due to the fact that she is the human embodiment of a 1940’s bomber […]
Alec Guinness and The Long Glass Corridor
I stood there, shaking, as Sir Alec Guinness moved down the long glass corridor fronting the house he built, slowly moving his bulk across two old legs and equally old […]
Philip Seymour Hoffman: Feeding The Addiction
This article isn’t about me, but there needs to be some context; in 1994, in front of a packed college audience, I had to deliver a monologue. The play, I […]
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