Category: Brit Flicks
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Film Review – The Critic
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Oh aren’t we meta! A wannabe film critic reviewing a film about a theatre critic! All that aside, I had a very pleasant daytime visit to the cinema with my good lady wife. We went along to see The Critic starring Ian McKellen and Gemma Arterton. It was a spur of the moment thing which…
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First Time Seen On The Big Screen – A Clockwork Orange
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I’ve said many times how much I enjoy the opportunities to see older films on the big screen. I don’t know if other cinema chains have similar seasons but The Light has quite a few. Some are anniversary screenings, some are part of director seasons, others are, seemingly, put on just because someone fancies seeing…
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Independent Film Review – Look To The Light
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Sometimes you see people in a film or, indeed, in real life and immediately know that you aren’t going to like them. In fact, you sometimes wonder how they could possibly have anyone in their life that manages to do more than tolerate them. But then you notice that they probably have more friends than…
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30th Anniversary Big Screen Rewatch – Shallow Grave
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I’m sure I’ve said elsewhere that my local cinema has started showing old films as well as new releases. They’ve recently had “Through The Lens” seasons for Spielberg and Kubrick, and other anniversary showings. I’ve just booked tickets for a 25th anniversary screening of The Mummy, there’s an anniversary showing of The Matrix, as well…
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Independent Film Review – Witch
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Ah yes, the good old days are always fair game for fiction and fantasy. The particular old days we’re looking at in Witch are those of the late 16th century. To be precise, the film starts by saying we are in the England of 1585. For some reason IMDb insists on Witch being set in…
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Independent Film Review – Bolan’s Shoes
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I find that films make more of a connection when there is something to connect them to you. I know that sounds laughably trite and obvious but bear with me. If you see a film and it is set in a place that you know very well you will probably feel close to it. It…
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Movie Review – Wicked Little Letters
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About a month ago my wife and I went to see, I think, The Beekeeper as a mystery screening. While we were waiting for it to start we saw a trailer for an upcoming British comedy called Wicked Little Letters. Now I know that trailers are designed to make you want to hand over your…
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Indie Movie Review – Fortunes Of War
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Just like the public transport system, you can wait ages for a World War Two based action film and then, before you know it, two come along at once. Last month I got to see War Blade which had a small group of soldiers aided by some resistance fighters attacking a Nazi bunker. This month…
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Independent Film Review – Dagr
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Some years ago, I was given one of those posters with a hundred must see films on it. Each film was covered with that scratch off stuff and the idea was that you scraped off the coverings of all the films you’d seen. It was delightful the way that Dagr threw in so many references…
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Indie Movie Review – Punch
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The great British seaside holiday started in the 18th century when the wealthy and well connected decided that “taking the waters” in spa towns such as Bath, Buxton, and Knaresborough was getting too boring and decided to move to the coast. Scarborough, on the Yorkshire coast, already had an inland spa and so was ideally…
