Following last year’s glossily positive Elvis biopic from Baz Luhrman, new film Priscilla casts a very different light on The King and his teenage queen. Based on Priscilla’s own book, Elvis and Me, it shows much more of the reality between a worldwide star and the innocent 14-year-old who would, eventually, become his bride. Priscilla … Read more
The Long, Hot Summer: Paul Newman stars in trailer Looking back nostalgically, we see movie legends Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward as a wonderful example of 50 years of cosy love and marriage (and remarkable philanthropy). But there’s a reason he was a major sex symbol far spicier than his famous sauces. 1958 film The … Read more
What goes up must come down. Sadly, F Gary Gray’s high-altitude action thriller hits dramatic turbulence and goes into a tailspin during a preposterous opening sequence set in Venice, which establishes the light-fingered credentials of criminal Cyrus Whitaker (Kevin Hart) and his five-strong crew, who profess to “rescue works of art from undeserving owners”. Interpol … Read more
THE BEEKEEPER (out now on Netflix) – 2 stars. The buzz emanating from David Ayer’s brutal revenge thriller starring Jason Statham as a retired assassin who tends beehives in the rolling green hills of Springfield, Massachusetts, is merely ho-hum. The rickety plot is set in motion by a malware pop-up phishing scam that drives a … Read more
The weird and the wonderful frolic hand in hand in Yorgos Lanthimos’s deranged coming-of-age fairy tale. Torn from the pages of Alasdair Gray’s novel, Poor Things reunites the director of Oscar-winning period comedy The Favourite with screenwriter Tony McNamara and actress Emma Stone for a fantastical, feminist reimagining of Frankenstein. Here, the pungent Glaswegian setting … Read more
New Year’s Eve is my least favorite holiday; it’s a rookie drinking night where average people spend way too much money in over-crowded bars in order to let loose for the first time in their lives, but only end up annoyingly drunk and making it everyone else’s problem. So instead of muscling up to the … Read more
