Art for art’s sake. Art felt and artful.
DARK ARENA is the first bona fide top flight thriller of the year.
Jack Beaumont secured his place in the pantheon of espionage page turners with his first book, The Frenchman. With DARK ARENA he cements that place.
Again we …
The first great film of 2024, DREAM SCENARIO.
A dream scenario, DREAM SCENARIO is a fantastic film, literally and figuratively, one with audacity and imagination, a film that flips things on their head.
Many are cult but few are chosen, …
Long before becoming a television phenomenon in As Time Goes By, long before her seven outings as 007’ s boss M, long before her Oscar win in Shakespeare In Love, Judie Dench was a jobbing actress playing many of Shakespeare’s …
POOR THINGS is an embarrassment of riches, and one of the best films of the year.
An unlikely story, mostly, POOR THINGS is all about life, presented in a quality quilt of fantasy, parable and myth.
Satirical, tragic, comic, ironic, …
There’s more than one occasion reading Michael Caine’s thriller, DEADLY GAME, that one thinks of his immortal phrase in the film, The Italian Job, “You’re only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!”
DEADLY GAME reads like the movie Michael …
Perfect, genuine, complete, crystalline, pure, Claire Keegan’s SO LATE IN THE DAY is sheer perfection in story telling.
Like Raymond Carver’s So Much Water So Close to Home, SO LATE IN THE DAY crystallises life changing situations elevating the …
Photo credit: Brittany Santariga
One for the road sees Mr. Toad receive a 20 year load, necessitating a prison break for the amphibian felon, requiring the frog to frock up and take a train to freedom.
A large ensemble brings …
The name’s Kite. Lachlan Kite. And he’s a major player in the third instalment of Charles Cumming’s seriously addictive Box 88 series, KENNEDY 35.
Kite’s been front and centre in the two previous novels, Box 88 and Judas 62, and …
Last week, Bottoms opened, now it’s DICKS entering.
Vulgar, crass, demented and depraved, DICKS: THE MUSICAL is a musical like no other.
DICKS is the OTT (over the trope) story of two self-obsessed businessmen who discover they’re long-lost identical twins …
Paul Schrader’s latest film, MASTER GARDENER, opens with a credit sequence of beautiful botanic time lapse accompanied by a gorgeous score by Devonte Hynes. It’s a misdirect as the film is not at all about pretty petals but the inadvertent …