Booksmart dir. by Olivia Wilde
I probably wouldn’t have gone to see this film if it wasn’t for hearing about it on the podcast so thank you Mark Kermode, because this...
1 June 2019
Stan & Ollie dir. by Jon S. Baird
I know that I’ve watched some Laurel and Hardy films, they used to be on the telly around Christmas, but to be honest I really couldn’t...
25 January 2019
Monty Python and the Holy Grail dir. by Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones
I’m not quite sure when I first watched Monty Python and the Holy Grail, but I know I wasn’t too young. Certainly a teenager. I’d heard...
5 November 2017
Hampstead dir. by Joel Hopkins
There is really very little to say about this film. It was entertaining enough while watching it, but it wasn’t a gripping or wildly entertaining film....
28 June 2017
Catfight dir. by Onur Tukel
From the title of this film you’re probably going to expect some bitchiness and maybe hairpulling. Well you get that, plus a whole heap of brutal...
4 June 2017
Birdman dir. by Alejandro G. Iñárritu
Riggan (Michael Keaton) is the star of a series of superhero films, the Birdman of the title, but he wants to be known for more than...
1 February 2015
Do butlers burgle banks? by P.G. Wodehouse
Read originally 19/07/2010. Reread June 2014 On my reread I enjoyed it just as much as the first time round, if not more. Wodehouse has that...
13 June 2014
22 Jump Street dir. by Christopher Miller, Phil Lord
Have you seen 21 Jump Street? The film, not the tv show? Did you enjoy it? If so you’ll probably enjoy this one too. Schmidt and...
7 June 2014
The Unfortunate Fursey by Mervyn Wall
Fursey is a lay brother in Clonmacnoise. The only monastery in Ireland to be unafflicted by demons and other such occult presences. The power of its...
2 June 2014
Adam’s Rib dir. by George Cukor
Warren Attinger has been a bad husband, but his wife, Doris, has caught him out. She follows him one day and when she uncovers him with...
24 May 2014
A Pelican at Blandings by P.G. Wodehouse
Blandings Castle #11 Clarance, the ninth Earl of Emsworth is enjoying life. The pride of his life, Empress of Blandings is in good health and life...
2 February 2014