Saltburn, is writer/director Emerald Fennell’s follow-up to her striking but erratic feature debut, Promising Young Woman. More stylistically assured than that film, Saltburn is an enjoyably strange, dark satire of class consciousness, poisonous wealth and social exclusion so full of indelible scenes that we can mostly overlook some slightly shaky storytelling. Barry Keoghan, who was unforgettable in the Banshees of
Read moreWhat We Did On Our Holiday is a quirky, charming and often funny film that still manages to provides a sobering look at volatile and dysfunctional relationships. The ubiquitous Rosamund Pike and former Dr Who David Tennant play a recently separated couple Abi and Doug who are trying to maintain the illusion that they’re still together so as to not
Read moreDavid Fincher is one of the finest filmmakers of recent times and his movies are now major events. Not surprisingly his adaptation of Gillian Flynn’s best-selling 2012 novel Gone Girl has been one of the year’s mostly hotly anticipated movies. While this film is not an immediate masterpiece like Seven, Zodiac, Fight Club and The Social Network, it is still
Read moreIn the noble tradition of Old Dogs, Grown Ups and Hot Tub Time Machine comes The Worlds End, another low-brow comedy about a group of middle aged guys desperately trying to relive the glory days of their wayward youth. Starring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, The World’s End is the last in a loosely connected comic trilogy that also includes
Read moreThe lengthy right-wing revenge fantasy Jack Reacher brings to the screen the violent antics of a character who has appeared in 17 novels by author Lee Child. In the title role, Tom Cruise plays a former soldier now drifter who goes from town to town having adventures just like Bill Bixby in The Incredible Hulk. In this film he’s called
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