My attempts to catch up with my reviewing leads to this very overdue write up on a surprisingly engrossing TV series. I picked The Alienist on Netflix partly because the title (explained shortly) intrigued me, partly because of the Ripper Street period vibe I was getting, and I thought I'd give an episode a go and … Continue reading The Alienist (season 1)
Having built up an empire as the marijuana king of Britain, American Mickey Pearson (Matthew McConaughey), has decided it's time to retire and sell on the business. But this being a Guy Ritchie movie, things are rarely so straightforward. A raid on one of the production facilities, a possible war with the local heroin manufacturers, … Continue reading The Gentlemen (2019)
Debbie Ocean (Sandra Bullock) has spent five years in prison planning her next job. The team she gathers includes a fab list of talent, from Cate Blanchett to Rihanna, Mindy Kaling to Helena Bonham Carter. Together, they're going to steal the world's most exclusive diamond necklace from around the neck of It-girl Daphne Kluger (Anne … Continue reading Ocean’s Eight (2018)
When an Ul Qoman resident is found dead in the neighbouring city of Beszel, Inspector Tyador Borlú is granted rare permission to enter the sister location. Sounds like a routine murder investigation, right? But Beszel and Ul Qoma aren't 'neighbours', per se: they exist in the same space. Residents must 'unsee' streets from the wrong city, … Continue reading The City and the City
Famous detective Hercule Poirot has just solved yet another baffling case - the resolution of which we see at the start of this movie - but he feels weary and out of sorts. He's a little love lorn, as it turns out, but generally just tired of being a famous detective. However, his planned vacation … Continue reading Murder on the Orient Express (2017)
Two Irishmen, Chris (Cillian Murphy) and Frank (Michael Smiley) go to a warehouse in Boston to buy guns for the fight against the English (this is 1978). Brokering the deal is Justine (Brie Larson), who brings these IRA members together with gun runner, Vernon (Sharlto Copley), and his hired help including Ord (Armie Hammer) and … Continue reading Free Fire (2016)
With the bank due to foreclose on the loan on the family ranch, Texan brothers Toby (Chris Pine) and Tanner (Ben Foster) take to robbing banks - all branches of the one trying to swindle them out of their inheritance, by their reckoning. Come hell or high water, they must get the money to the … Continue reading Hell or High Water (2016)
When CIA operative Bill Pope (Ryan Reynolds) is killed in action, his employers gamble with an experimental medical procedure to recover his memories. Transferred into the head of sociopathic prisoner, Jericho (Kevin Costner), can the memories be recovered in time to complete Pope's mission - stopping an anarchist from bringing down the world's governments? Criminal … Continue reading Criminal (2016)
Every now and then I get to attend a 'secret screening' - an advanced screening of a movie where we don't know what it is until the BFFC rating screen appears. Speculation is rife ahead of this, and while I think Triple 9 is a decent movie, that kind of build up just killed the whole thing … Continue reading Triple 9 (2016)
Sicario, we are told, means hitman. And like the best of assassins, this movie is ruthless and relentless, never quite showing its hand until the last moments. When an attempted hostage rescue goes hideously wrong, idealistic FBI agent Kate Macer (Emily Blunt) is offered the chance to join a cross-agency team aiming to hit the … Continue reading Sicario (2015)
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