There is teaching a troublesome kid and then there is TEACHING a troublesome kid. Maria Spencer’s (Saoirse Ronan) life would be so much more satisfying without having to allow for Danny’s (Eddie Waller) violent and disruptive ways. Seemingly permanently angry and uncooperative, he is the ultimate primary school horror child. As the film opens, on…
A feel good, comedic, period drama, Just an Illusion concerns the trials and tribulations of a French family of four. The year is 1985 and we are in suburban Paris Navigating first love can be challenging, especially when you are 12 years old and part of a family that rarely agrees on anything. That is…
Inspired by fact, The Social Reckoning is one of my movies of the year. Based on the 2021 Facebook Files leak by whistleblower Frances Haugen (Mikey Madison) and the reporting of Wall Street Journal investigative journalist Jeff Horwitz (Jeremy Allen White), it is intoxicating. In fact, it is mighty scary and thrilling at the same…
Sex sells and so it is with the fourth of Colleen Hoover’s novels to be turned into a film. The most recent before Verity was Reminders of Him, before that Regretting You and, first up, It Ends With Us. Verity Crawford (Anne Hathaway) is one of the best-selling authors on the planet, whose success is…
Road Runner constantly outpacing and outsmarting Wile E. Coyote in classic Looney Tunes’ shorts was a memorable part of my childhood. Beep Beep was the only sound emanating from Road Runner, while Wile E. Coyote didn’t speak. It was left to the latter to be squashed, smashed, dropped and exploded, only to bounce back, time…
Nearly two decades ago, an incident shattered a family and now the patriarch – a feted, but ailing author – is intent on making good before he drops off the mortal coil. Forever sickly, stumbling about, popping pills and turning to the bottle, his name is Andrew Dyer (Bill Nighy). He lives a reclusive life…
Kinky and sexually charged, I Want Your Sex is an erotic dark comedy. Naïve twenty-three-year-old Elliot (Cooper Hoffman) almost can’t believe the fact that he has just landed his first job after finishing university. It is working as an assistant to renowned, sexually provocative artist Erika Tracy (Olivia Wilde). Apart from anything else, it will…
A decidedly French dark comedy about the class divide, The Party’s Over involves a well to do family and their caretakers, who are at loggerheads. Parisian lawyer Philippe Trousselard (Laurent Lafitte) and his former actress wife Laurence de Preville (Elodie Bouchez) are spending the summer at their villa. That is in the south of France….
Isla Fisher has ample opportunity to show off her comedic acting chops in the girls’ buddy comedy Spa Weekend. Realised in the spirit of Bad Moms and The Hangover, she plays Mel, the most outrageous of a foursome who became firm friends at middle school. Gifted some choice lines and visual gags, Fisher is all…
Pure evil threatens to bring the dead back into the world of the living in this sixth instalment of the supernatural horror franchise, which started in 2010. They are trapped in purgatory, an astral dimension known as The Further, and a young Pittsburgh mother and dentist, Gemma (Amelia Eve) holds the key. A malevolent entity,…
