By Eddie on 28/05/2024 This blog will be inactive over the foreseeable future. From today there will be no new posts on the blog in the coming weeks but I look forward to being back on board in due course and talking with you all regarding all things movies. Until then, as always, happy watching. See you at the movies ..read more

Title – Rye Lane (2023)  Director – Raine Allen-Miller (feature debut)  Cast – David Jonsson, Vivian Oparah Plot – Young Londoners Dom (Jonsson) and Yas (Oparah) connect on one fateful day in the city they call home where the two find common ground after recent relationship breakdowns.  “If people on a boat wave at you, you have to wave back. It’s the law” Review by Eddie on 27/05/2024 A sleeper hit from the 2023 release calendar, the Disney+/Hulu original Rye Lane has marked down first time feature director Raine Allen-Miller and her two stars David Jonsson and Vivian Oparah a ..read more

Title – Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024) Director – George Miller (Babe)  Cast – Anya Taylor-Joy, Chris Hemsworth, Tom Burke, Alyla Browne Plot – The origin story of famed rebel warrior Furiosa (Browne & Taylor-Joy) who battles for her survival in an unforgiving post-apocalyptic landscape where crazed figures such as Dr. Dementus (Hemsworth) reign supreme.   “Ladies and Gentlemen! Start your engines” Review by Eddie on 24/05/2024 Arriving almost a decade after the box office smashing, Oscar winning and critical and audience darling Fury Road roared into cinemas, there’s no do ..read more

Title – Godzilla Minus One (2023) Director – Takashi Yamazaki (The Fighter Pilot)  Cast – Ryunosuke Kamiki, Minami Hamabe, Sakura Andô, Kuranosuke Sasaki Plot – In the aftermath of World War 2, a group of dedicated ex-soldiers must band together to tackle a new threat in the form of the monstrous sea creature known as Godzilla.   “Godzilla looks really ticked off” Review by Eddie on 22/05/2024 2023 didn’t have a lot of cinematic stories to celebrate outside of the Barbenheimer craze that swept the cinema scene across the globe but one of the rare positives was the surprising success ..read more

Title – Immaculate (2024)  Director – Michael Mohan (The Voyeurs)  Cast – Sydney Sweeney, Álvaro Morte, Simona Tabasco Plot – Dedicated to serving her life as a nun, Sister Cecilia’s (Sweeney) new acceptance into an exclusive convent in rural Italy is one full of unexpected dangers and secrets that will test the very core of her faith.   “I know God saved me for a reason” Review by Eddie on 20/05/2024 The type of horror film you would’ve been right in expecting from the 60’s and 70’s, the Sydney Sweeney starring Immaculate is an “almost” genre experience that provides some ..read more

Mad Max: Fury Road remains one of Hardy’s greatest achievements List compiled by Eddie on 17/05/2024 It took him some time to get going with early rolls at the start of the 2000’s in hit HBO series Band of Brothers, Black Hawk Down and Star Trek: Nemesis followed by a long stretch of lowly projects before 2008’s cult surprise Bronson arrived, superstar Hollywood actor Tom Hardy has made up for lost time over the past decade or so with key roles in a number of standout cinematic offerings.  A unique and sometimes divisive presence, Hardy’s on screen and off screen personas and personalit ..read more

Title – Silent Night (2023)  Director – John Woo (Face/Off)  Cast – Joel Kinnaman, Kid Cudi, Catalina Sandino Moreno Plot – Hellbent on revenge towards those that had a hand in the death of his young boy, father turned vigilante Brian Godlock (Kinnaman) turns his Christmas period into a period of bloodshed and carnage.  “Kill them all” Review by Eddie on 13/05/2024 An air of quiet excitement surrounded legendary Chinese action director John Woo’s return to Hollywood with his first venture back in the system since his ill-fated Ben Affleck starring Paycheck from 2003 but th ..read more

2001’s Donnie Darko is an all-time classic List compiled by Eddie on 10/05/2024 “An independent film is a professional film production resulting in a feature film that is produced mostly or completely outside of the major film studio system. In addition to being produced and distributed by independent entertainment companies, independent films are also produced and/or distributed by subsidiaries of major film studios.”* Sourced from Wikipedia. Taking the very definition of an “indie” from above, below are a list of classic films that came to us from outside of the usual Hollywood wheelhouse ..read more

Title – Unfrosted (2024)  Director – Jerry Seinfeld (feature debut)  Cast – Jerry Seinfeld, Jim Gaffigan, Melissa McCarthy, Amy Schumer, Jack McBrayer, Bill Burr  Plot – A fanciful exploration of the famed Pop-Tart creation with Kellog’s heavyweight Bob Cabana (Seinfeld) leading a specialist team to change the face of the breakfast game forever in the early 1960’s.  “A pop-tart will rise” Review by Eddie on 08/05/2024 After decades in the industry and what feels like a rather long hiatus from high-profile projects, nobody can accuse comedic legend Jerry Seinfeld from ..read more

Title – May December (2023)  Director – Todd Haynes (Carol)  Cast – Natalie Portman, Julianne Moore, Charles Melton Plot – A controversial relationship between the fragile Gracie (Moore) and her much younger husband Joe Yoo (Melton) begins to show signs of falling apart when the arrival of actress Elizabeth (Portman) occurs in their lives as their story is prepared to be told in a new feature film.  “Insecure people are very dangerous, aren’t they?” Review by Eddie on 06/05/2024 Inspired by the true life American crime case of school teacher Mary Kay Letourneau, Todd Hayne’s la ..read more