by Martin | May 29, 2016 | movies, reviews
At one point in this the man who I suppose we’ll have to call the hero for want of any other more suitable candidate – Lt. Dave Madden ( Jan Murray) – is told that he has ‘crossed a line’. Well this film has crossed a line before it’s...
by Martin | May 1, 2016 | movies, reviews
This begins with college professor Donald Blake (Arthur Franz) completing his collection of busts depicting the various stages of human evolution with one of ‘Modern Woman’, taken from his fiancée’s face. Subsequently, as if this is the peak of...
by Martin | May 1, 2016 | movies, reviews
One of the funnier scenes in the Coen Brothers’ 50’s Hollywood-set latest has Ralph Fiennes as a fussy English director struggling to incorporate studio-imposed Western star Hobie Doyle (Alden Ehrenreich) into his drawing room comedy Merrily We Dance....
by Martin | Apr 9, 2016 | movies, reviews
TV presenter Mommy (Suzanne Wuest) returns from plastic surgery with a bandaged face and a bad temper, so that her twin boys Elias and Lukas start to wonder if she’s really Mommy at all, the question mark over her identity deftly conveyed in a scene where she...
by Martin | Apr 9, 2016 | movies, reviews
I saw this at the Odeon Covent Garden. Amazingly, they are only charging £6.00 a ticket at the moment for any showing Monday to Thursday. I hope this doesn’t get out, or my chances of getting an entire screen to myself (that ever-elusive dream) will diminish...
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