The seemingly endless Marvel movie parade careens ahead with the latest cgi-drenched action extravaganza, Dr Strange in The Multiverse of Madness. While as visually inventive and eyeball pummelling as any film in the various Marvel universes (MCU, Spiderverse) this movie seriously lacks the energy and fun of the best Marvel movies such as the recent Spider-Man No Way Home and
Read moreDownton Abbey: A New Era. The TV series Downton Abbey, which depicted the lives of the lords and ladies of the Crawley family who inhabited the titular estate in the 1910’s and 20’s, lay somewhere between sophisticated drama and super-sized soap. Its slightly dubious celebration of privilege and apparent endorsement of class divisions was made palatable by the quality of
Read moreThe Northman The trailer for the Viking drama The Northman suggested a slightly silly sword-swinging muscleman epic or something like a feature length episode of the compelling but at times comically overwrought TV show Vikings. All of the above is partly true but this tale of filial vengeance comes from writer director Robert Eggers who helmed the remarkable and exceptionally
Read moreEverything Everywhere All At Once We recently bemoaned the dearth of original ideas in Hollywood with the roster of current and upcoming films stuffed with sequels, reboots and remakes. Whether or not the incredibly weird existential, sci fi comedy Everything Everywhere All At Once – the brainchild of writer/directors Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, collectively known as ‘the Daniels’ –
Read moreTHE LOST CITY The Lost City is a moderately entertaining romantic comedy adventure in the tradition of Romancing the Stone and Jewel of The Nile with a touch of the historical puzzle solving of National Treasure. While this fluffy film has a few exciting and vaguely amusing moments, a little too often it feels as if the leads, Sandra Bullock
Read moreThis week on ‘Built For Speed’ we’ll let you know what happens when you combine Sandra Bullock, Channing Tatum and Daniel Radcliffe in one film as we review adventure comedy ‘The Lost City’. We’ll also tell you about some of the films on offer at the Moro Spanish Film Festival which opened last night. There’ll be a feast of music
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