Rating: HE SAID Salma Hayek plays a prostitute going up against the Yakuza in this ridiculous, excessively violent exploitation flick from director Joe Lynch (Wrong Turn 2: Dead End, Knights of Badassdom). Originally intended as a starring vehicle for Kate…
Rating: Fantastic Four? More like Fantastic Snore! (I’m sure I won’t be the first or last to use such cheap word play with the title) but unfortunately this remake is a dull attempt to reboot this Marvel comic. The beginning…
Rating: HE SAID In Ricki and The Flash, Meryl Streep plays ageing rocker Ricki Rendazzo, a woman who abandoned her husband and three kids years ago to pursue a career as musician. Now in her 60s, Ricki’s dream of making…
I have no doubt that one day the phenomenally talented Jake Gyllenhaal will win an Oscar however I’ll hedge a bet it won’t be for Antoine Fuqua’s daft, cliche ridden boxing movie. A rehash of a dozen or so better films,…
Rating: Inside Out is the latest release from Disney Pixar, directed by Pete Doctor, the man who brought us Up, Toy Story and Monsters Inc. Inside Out follows the characters of Joy, Sadness, Fear, Anger and Disgust, all of whom…
Rating: Dragonfly was written and directed by Andrew Tiernan, who also found time to play one of the lead roles in the film. It would be easy for Tiernan to fall into an ego trap, but he straddles the triumvirate of roles…
The Diary of a Teenage Girl is a coming of age drama based on the novel by Phoebe Gloeckner, which is loosely based on Gloeckner’s own life. We jump right in with Minnie (Bel Powley) as she announces the loss…
HE SAID The sequel to Steven Soderbergh’s 2012 smash hit male stripper dramedy is that rare beast, a follow up that is almost completely different in tone to it’s predecessor. Much more lightweight and frothy, this road movie caper is actually…
The film begins as a new boy (Rollo Skinner) and his parents move in next door to Dani (Evie Playfoot-Orme) and Louisa (Joanne Gale). The girls soon become obsessed with this boy despite only catching glimpses of his arms through…
The East End Film Festival opened earlier this week and just happened to take place at one of my favourite cinemas in London: The Genesis, situated on Mile End Road. The public and press turned out in droves to attend what…