FILM REVIEW: MOONFALL (12A) ESP RATING: 2/5
Hit-and-miss disaster movie-monger Roland Emmerich sadly churns out the latter – in this ‘bonkers’ sci-fier. For every (fairly)...
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- Jan 28
- 2 min
FILM REVIEW: NIGHTMARE ALLEY (15) ESP RATING: 4/5
Oscar-winning director Guillermo Del Toro’s (The Shape of Water) stylish thriller is a throwback to the days of Alfred Hitchcock. I left...
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- Dec 17, 2021
- 2 min
EXCLUSIVE FILM REVIEW: SPIDER-MAN – NO WAY HOME (12A) ESP RATING: 4.5/5
SPOILER ALERT! DO NOT READ ON IF YOU DON’T WANT TO KNOW THE MOVIE’S SECRETS REVEALED HERE! Marvel and Sony did a great job in keeping so...
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- Dec 16, 2021
- 2 min
FILM REVIEW: WEST SIDE STORY (12A) ESP RATING: 5/5
I was initially apprehensive to learn that Steven Spielberg was directing another big-budget adaptation of Stephen Sondheim’s iconic West...
Gavin Miller
- Dec 2, 2021
- 2 min
FILM REVIEW: ENCANTO (PG) ESP RATING: 3/5
With the quality of the Disney Animation Studios product now matching – or in certain cases even bettering – that of sister studio Pixar,...
Gavin Miller
- Nov 15, 2021
- 2 min
FILM REVIEW: ETERNALS (12A) ESP RATING: 3/5
Early reviews pegged this as the worst-reviewed Marvel Cinematic Universe movie so far (since it started in 2008) – and the first one to...
Gavin Miller
- Nov 6, 2021
- 3 min
FILM REVIEW: DUNE (12A) ESP RATING: 4.5/5
If the person tasked with formulating a new Star Wars universe for this generation did as spectacular a job as Denis Villeneuve does here...
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- Nov 5, 2021
- 2 min
FILM REVIEW: LAST NIGHT IN SOHO (18) ESP RATING: 4/5
Acclaimed Baby Driver director Edgar Wright fires out another hit with this breathtakingly satisfying – if uneven – psychological...
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- Oct 23, 2021
- 2 min
FILM REVIEW: VENOM – LET THERE BE CARNAGE (15) ESP RATING: 3.5/5
This follow-up to 2018’s critically-divisive Venom is stereotypical superhero fare – but it’s thoroughly entertaining. Let There Be...
Gavin Miller
- Oct 6, 2021
- 3 min
FILM REVIEW: NO TIME TO DIE (12A) ESP RATING: 3.5/5
Daniel Craig gets the send-off he deserves as his five-story ‘Spectre’ arc comes full circle – as he ends his tenure as iconic British...
Gavin Miller
- Sep 30, 2021
- 2 min
FILM REVIEW: MALIGNANT (18) ESP RATING: 3/5
The mastermind behind The Conjuring, Insidious and Saw series has unleashed a potential new horror franchise – which is saved by its...
Gavin Miller
- Sep 30, 2021
- 2 min
SKY CINEMA FILM REVIEW: GUNPOWDER MILKSHAKE (15) ESP RATING: 3.5/5
It might be a little unfair to just tag this as a ‘Female John Wick’ – as this high-octane flick deserves more kudos than that. Yet...
Gavin Miller
- Sep 10, 2021
- 2 min
FILM REVIEW: SHANG-CHI & THE LEGEND OF THE TEN RINGS (12A) ESP RATING: 3.5/5
He may not have exactly been a superhero name that ‘rolled off the tongue’ prior to his Marvel Cinematic Universe bow – but after this...
Gavin Miller
- Sep 2, 2021
- 2 min
FILM REVIEW: CANDYMAN (15) ESP RATING: 3.5/5
This classy re-imagining of the iconic Nineties slasher has producer Jordan Peele’s (director of Get Out) finger-prints all over it –...
Gavin Miller
- Aug 27, 2021
- 2 min
FILM REVIEW: FREE GUY (12A) ESP RATING: 4/5
It has been dubbed as ‘The Surprise of the Summer’ – and to be fair it’s hard to argue with that moniker. This zany family actioner has...