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May 26, 2022 by Simon Sweetman
Top Gun – Maverick: Film
Top Gun: Maverick Director: Joseph Kosinski Skydance Media / Jerry Bruckheimer Films / Paramount Pictures I grew up with Top Gun – I remember seeing it at the cinema, later I inherited the RayBans (from my older brother) and the soundtrack was everywhere, one of a handful of mid/late-80s soundtrack albums that really had a […]Archive
May 18, 2022 by Simon Sweetman
Halloween Kills: DVD
Halloween Kills Director: David Gordon Green Universal Sony Pictures P/I I finally caught up with Halloween Kills – now streaming and on DVD, I had missed its brief cinema run and was disappointed, having rewatched most of the franchise in anticipation.Archive
April 12, 2022 by Simon Sweetman
X: Film
X Director: Ti West A24 / Little Lamb / Mad Solar Productions Once in a while a film comes along, and you have very high expectations indeed. Almost so much so that it is a bit of a worry. But then, it’s movie night – and not only no worries, your high expectations are shot […]Archive
March 5, 2022 by Simon Sweetman
Possessor: DVD
Possessor Director: Brandon Cronenberg Elevation Pictures / Signature Entertainment Possessor belongs to that dark and wonderful strain of film – the science fiction psychological horror. And director/writer Brandon Cronenberg is royalty within that genre. He’s been bubbling away under his own steam across the last decade. Anything he has grabbed from his father he has […]Archive
January 30, 2022 by Simon Sweetman
Barn – Neil Young & Crazy Horse – A Band, A Brotherhood, A Barn: Film
Barn: Neil Young & Crazy Horse – A Band, A Brotherhood, A Barn Director: DHLoveLife A Shakey Pictures Production Neil Young is in the news for taking his music off Spotify – his stand against the company’s platforming of Joe Rogan’s podcast. Rogan masquerades as a free-thinker and entertains conspiracy theories, which has seen him […]Archive
January 15, 2022 by Simon Sweetman
Scream (5): Film
Scream Directors: Matt Bettinelli-Olpin & Tyler Gillett Spyglass Media Group / Project X Entertainment / Paramount Pictures Scream (aka Scream 5) is both sequel and reboot – a “requel” as the very knowing and cracking-good script tells us. It features the big names from the original – back as second-generation helpers. And of course a […]Archive
January 5, 2022 by Simon Sweetman
House of Gucci: Film
House of Gucci Director: Ridley Scott Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/Bon Creative/Scott Free Productions / Universal Pictures I really loved House of Gucci. I was interested enough in it anyway, but the thing that totally amped me for it was this advance nonsense about Lady Gaga being the only good thing in it; about it being a load of […]Archive
December 3, 2021 by Simon Sweetman
The Beatles – Get Back: Film
The Beatles: Get Back Director: Peter Jackson Walt Disney Studios / Apple Corps Ltd. WingNut Films / Disney+ Peter Jackson’s much-hyped dig into the vaults of the footage that already gave us the Let It Be film (whatever that was) and the Rooftop Concert, was released over American Thanksgiving weekend on the streaming service Disney […]Archive
June 27, 2021 by Simon Sweetman
Willy’s Wonderland: DVD
Willy’s Wonderland (Blu-Ray) Director: Kevin Lewis Madman / Screen Media Films Here’s how it works now: Someone tells you about a film where a quiet drifter-type is conned into a gig being a janitor at a now condemned theme park-styled restaurant. Chuck E. Cheese with broken-down animatronics. A clown show with no show today, tomorrow […]Archive
May 26, 2021 by Simon Sweetman
Wrath of Man: Film
Wrath of Man Director: Guy Ritchie Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/Miramax/United Artists It’s a Guy Ritchie film – and it’s being billed as his reunion with Jason Statham, their first film together in 15 years after making three movies in quick succession together and essentially make their names together. But Wrath of Man (based loosely on the 2004 French […]Archive
May 18, 2021 by Simon Sweetman