Nerve
The premise of Nerve is not new. The idea of an online “game” or blackmailer challenging users to dares which are then monitored by their mobile phone has been at the root of at least […]
Adaptation
A Street Cat Named Bob
For all it’s desire to show the gritty underbelly of London, A Street Cat Named Bob has a certain Hollywood gloss to it which makes it seem to be taking place in that same weird […]
Two Women
Two Women, from director Vittorio “The Bicycle Theives” De Sica won Sophia Loren the Best Actress Oscar in 1962 – the only time a leading performer in a foreign-language movie has won one of the top […]
The Girl With All The Gifts
It’s about ten years since the Zombie apocalypse and a group of children being held prisoner and experimented on in a UK military medical facility may hold the answers to what happens next. So begins The […]
The Wicked Lady
The Wicked Lady, one of Michael Winner’s latter-day pictures (but before the career nadir that was Parting Shots) is a controversial movie about a noble woman masquerading as a highwayman. And it’s just not very good. […]