Cold Pursuit (2019)
StudioCanal
Directed by: Hans Petter Moland
Written by: Frank Baldwin
Starring: Liam Neeson, Tom Bateman, Tom Jackson, Emmy Rossum, Domenick Lombardozzi, Julia Jones, John Doman & Laura Dern
It's a shame that Cold Pursuit. the latest revenge flick starring Liam Neeson, has been clouded…
Oh dear. You know that feeling when you are maybe 20 minutes in, and you know the whole production looks like it's going down the toilet, and the couple in the row behind are packing up their snacks and starting to leave,…
Green Book (2019)
Universal Pictures
Directed by: Peter Farrelly
Written by: Nick Vallelonga, Brian Hayes Currie & Peter Farrelly
Starring: Viggo Mortensen, Mahershala Ali, Linda Cardellini, Sebastian Maniscalco & Dimiter D. Marinov
Peter Farrelly is the director of road movie Green Book, a heartwarming story of two…
Escape Room (2019)
Sony Pictures
Directed by: Adam Robitel
Written by: Bragi F. Schut & Maria Melnik
Starring: Taylor Russell, Logan Miller, Deborah Ann Woll, Tyler Labine, Jay Ellis & Nik Dodani
There are better films than Escape Room at the cinema just now. The premise of…
The Mule (2019)
Warner Bros. Pictures
Directed by: Clint Eastwood
Written by: Sam Dolnick & Nick Schenk
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Bradley Cooper, Manny Montana, Taissa Farmiga & Michael Peña
There are two incredible things about new Clint Eastwood film The Mule, and one of them is the…
Glass (2019)
Universal Pictures
Directed by: M. Night Shyamalan
Written by: M. Night Shyamalan
Starring: James McAvoy, Bruce Willis, Samuel L. Jackson, Anya Taylor-Joy, Sarah Paulson and Spencer Treat Clark
So Glass is a sequel to Split, which was apparently a secret sequel to Unbreakable, all from…
The 12th Man (2019)
Signature Entertainment
Directed by: Harald Zwart
Written by: Petter Skavlan
Starring: Thomas Gullestad, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Mads Sjøgård Pettersen and Marie Blokhus
The 12th Man is a gripping Second World War biopic that tells the extraordinary true story of Jan Baalsrud's survival against…
The Upside (2019)
STX Entertainment and Lantern Entertainment
Directed by: Neil Burger
Written by: Jon Hartmere
Starring: Kevin Hart, Brian Cranston and Nicole Kidman.
So last night I had the pleasure of watching The Upside after snagging a couple of free preview tickets through Sky VIP…
Welcome to Marwen (2019)
Universal Pictures
Directed by: Robert Zemeckis
Written by: Robert Zemeckis
Starring: Steve Carell, Falk Hentschel, Matt O'Leary, Nikolai Witschl, Patrick Roccas & Gwendoline Christie
Steve Carell stars in this quirky film, based on a true story, about an illustrator that loses himself in…
The Favourite (2019)
Fox Searchlight Pictures
Directed by: Yorgos Lanthimos
Written by: Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara
Starring: Emma Stone, Joe Alwyn, Mark Gatiss, Nicholas Hoult, Olivia Colman and Rachel Weisz.
Outstanding performances make this black comedy stand out from other New Year offerings in 2019.
There's a…
Bumblebee (2018)
Paramount Pictures
Directed by: Travis Knight
Written by: Christina Hodson
Starring: Hailee Steinfeld, Jorge Lendeborg Jr., John Cena, Dylan O'Brien, Jason Drucker, Pamela Adlon & Stephen Schneider.
So this is an interesting film for fans of the Transformers franchise, but for the rest of the…
Mary Poppins Returns (2018)
Disney
Directed by: Rob Marshall
Written by: David Magee, Rob Marshall & John DeLuca
Starring: Emily Blunt, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Ben Whishaw, Emily Mortimer, Pixie Davies, Nathanael Saleh, Julie Walters, Meryl Streep, Colin Firth, Dick Van Dyke & Angela Lansbury.
It’s been 54…
Aquaman (2018)
Warner Bros. Pictures
Directed by: James Wan
Written by: David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick, Will Beall, Geoff Johns, James Wan & Will Beall.
Starring: Jason Momoa, Amber Heard, Willem Dafoe, Patrick Wilson, Nicole Kidman, Dolph Lundgren, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Temuera Morrison & Ludi Lin.
Aquaman is Warner…
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)
Sony Pictures
Directed by: Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey & Rodney Rothman
Written by: Phil Lord
Starring: Shameik Moore, Jake Johnson, Hailee Steinfeld, Mahershala Ali, John Mulaney, Kimiko Glenn, Nicolas Cage, Kathryn Hahn, Liev Schreiber & Chris Pine
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is…
Anna and the Apocalypse (2018)
Orion Pictures
Directed by: John McPhail
Written by: Alan McDonald and Ryan McHenry
Starring: Ella Hunt, Malcolm Cumming, Sarah Swire, Christopher Leveaux & Ben Wiggins
There are certain films that are difficult, for various reasons, to review. Perhaps the film is so dense,…