Brooklyn (5/10)
Brooklyn has three oscar nominations under its belt: Best Motion Picture, Best Lead Actress, and Best Writing. I can understand why it didn't win, but I am still scratching my head as to why on
Hail Caesar! (6/10)
“Hail Caesar!” is a gentle comedy on the surface, but seems to me more a homage to the glory days of the Hollywood studio system in the 1930s-50s. At that time the “big five” studios
The Lady in the Van (5/10)
'The Lady in the Van' was Mary Shepherd (Maggie Smith), an elderly vagrant living in her van in the streets of Camden in the 1970s and 80s. She came to live in Alan Bennett's (Alex
The Big Short (7/10)
We are still living the (aftermath of...?) the global financial crisis that took the economy into recession starting in 2008. But it didn't start in 2008 of course. It started over a decade earlier when
Pawn Sacrifice (6/10)
The life of chess prodigy Bobby Fischer has rich potential for drama. He was a poor kid from Brooklyn who taught himself chess and became the youngest ever US chess champion. In the Cold War
Creed (5/10)
Full disclosure: I have never been a fan of any of the Rocky movies. So now we have installment 7 of the Greatest Boxing Legend of American Cinema. It does however have several things going
Spotlight (7/10)
'Spotlight' is the section of the Boston Globe's paper that looks beyond and delves deeper - work done by the paper's investigative journalism team led by Robby Robertson (Michael Keaton). In 2001, the newspaper gets
A Bigger Splash (7/10)
In this film Tilda Swinton plays Marianne, a major rock star who has had to have a throat operation and is convalescing in a villa on an isolated Mediterranean island. All seems idyllic and
Last Cab to Darwin (7/10)
This movie tells the story of Rex (Michael Caton), a taxi driver who has never even left his hometown of Broken Hill, NSW. Just as Rex learns his stomach cancer has spread and the doctors
Room (9/10)
The premise of Room does not sound promising. A young woman is bringing up her young child, both confined to a small shed that she has been held captive in for seven years by an