Yes, I’ve watched the trailer for the Home Alone reboot. No, I will not be watching the whole film. No, I will not be discussing it here. I’m not going to dunk on a child actor or even on Aisling Bea, who I think is one the funniest comedians of her generation. But I will say that I’m sure the reviews for this movie are speaking for themselves, and that’s all there is on the matter. Okay, great. That bit […]

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Every Easter, I tackle a film or book that deals with themes of the season, or has a setting that occurs around that time of the year. There was Scorsese’s Silence in 2019, and Chocolat in 2020. This year, I opted for a film which begins and ends on Easter, and while the film isn’t exactly on the nose with its Easter themes, it still deals with a subject matter inherent to the season – that of insurmountable loss, and […]

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It’s no secret that 2020 has been the worst kind of year, so good news of any kind is reveled and embraced with enthusiasm. One such piece of news was Schitt’s Creek crushing it at the Emmys this year, winning for outstanding comedy series as well as sweeping all the acting categories. I was midway into the series by then, but I could completely understand why the show won, and why it is probably one of the best comedy TV […]

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What is the best Christmas film ever made that also happens to be one of the all-time greatest movies made too? I’d give you a few minutes to think about it but if you clicked on this article then you already know the answer – it is, obviously, The Muppet Christmas Carol. The film is twenty six years old and it hasn’t aged a day. One of the benefits of having the Muppets in any movie is that they haven’t […]

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Has there been a more important shot in recent cinematic history than that hand flex in Joe Wright’s 2005 adaptation of Pride and Prejudice? Did the medium of cinema produce a single moment of more peak romance in the entirety of the twenty first century so far? I don’t think so. In a film of many iconic moments – that proposal in the rain, anyone? – a seemingly innocuous glance at Mr Darcy’s hand flexing after the first time he […]

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Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die. The chances are that if you know anything about the cult classic film The Princess Bride, it is probably this iconic line. We hear it enough throughout the movie, after all. Inigo repeats it to anyone who will listen, this speech he has planned for the day he meets the Six-Fingered Man, the one who did indeed kill his father. And he gets to say it to […]

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Skyfall is the jewel in the crown of the Daniel Craig James Bonds, a film where it all came together into what was an emotional and thoughtful finale to the Casino Royale/Quantum of Solace/Skyfall triptych. They did a great job with Craig’s Bond. From the first moment he appears on the screen he is rougher and less put together than the Bonds who have come before him. They were basically making prequels with these films, and Craig Bond was fully […]

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The Return of the King feels different to the other two films, and I am not completely sure why that is. Something in the story telling shifted as the focus came onto the fight for the whole of the Middle Earth, rather than the small or localised battles that have happened up until now (you can’t call Helm’s Deep small, after all!) I think because of this scope, and the fact there are even more story threads following even more […]

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The Two Towers is, in my most humble of opinions, the best of Peter Jackson’s Middle-earth films. I don’t think this is too controversial a thing to say but I’m sure I will be corrected by someone on it. Anyway, the point is that there are a lot of moments in The Two Towers that I could have picked as the most memorable; Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli’s cross-country extravaganza and Gandalf’s super extra re-appearance in the forest are two that […]

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Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings films came to life at a seminal time in the lives of us millennials. I know for me, they are some of the first films I remember seeing, right down to which screen was showing them in the local cinema. As fantasy films, they are historic; the first time, really, that fantasy was taken seriously as a genre. Approval rippled down from the Academy and culminated in Return of the King winning the Best […]

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