This week I kick things off with Jason Statham protecting the hive before digging into two newly Academy Award nominated films. Also new this week, the Americans and Russians are fighting in space, there’s an absolute treat on AppleTV+ for fans of Band Of Brothers and The Pacific, Sofia Vergara is taking on the story …
This week I start with a little dip in the pool for Night Swim and a whopping three Netflix movies. New on DVD, Kitty Green is putting Julia Garner through hell once again, one of the originators of German New Wave cinema is the focus of a new documentary and much, much more.
We’re still in that beginning-of-the-year movie lull, I talk about the most important film of 2023, a biopic starring two of the best character actors in the industry today, William Oldroyd’s long-awaited follow-up to Lady Macbeth, and much more. This week also marks the debut of a father-daughter team as my daughter Chloe has joined …
The first episode of 2024 and I’m going for the horror right away! Given, I didn’t really have anything new to watch, I instead played catch up for a few great ones including Eli Roth’s Thanksgiving. I also got a box set of one of the greatest sci-fi shows ever.
This week I give my full thoughts on Wonka, Five Nights At Freddy’s is on 4K, a Chinese epic sci-fi that completely outdoes anything Roland Emmerich can come up with, a handful of remastered films from the 90s and more. Also, where is your bar set for Aquaman?
New Releases: Silent Night – A gritty revenge tale of a tormented father who witnesses his young son die when caught in a gang’s crossfire on Christmas Eve. While recovering from a wound that costs him his voice, he makes vengeance his life’s mission and embarks on a punishing training regimen in order to avenge …
New Releases: Napoleon – An epic that details the checkered rise and fall of French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte and his relentless journey to power through the prism of his addictive, volatile relationship with his wife, Josephine. Expectations: In what seems like a biopic that was a long time coming, Ridley Scott finally gets his take on …
New Releases: The Hunger Games: The Ballad Of Songbirds And Snakes – The story of Coriolanus Snow, years before he would become the tyrannical President of Panem. He is handsome and charming, and though the Snow family has fallen on hard times, Coriolanus sees a chance for a change in his fortunes when he is chosen …
New Releases: The Marvels – Carol Danvers AKA Captain Marvel has reclaimed her identity from the tyrannical Kree and taken revenge on the Supreme Intelligence. But unintended consequences see Carol shouldering the burden of a destabilized universe. When her duties send her to an anomalous wormhole linked to a Kree revolutionary, her powers become entangled with …
New Releases: Priscilla – When teenage Priscilla Beaulieu meets Elvis Presley at a party, the man who is already a meteoric rock-and-roll superstar becomes someone entirely unexpected in private moments: a thrilling crush, an ally in loneliness, a vulnerable best friend. Through Priscilla’s eyes, Sofia Coppola tells the unseen side of a great American myth in …
Steve Stebbing 