Crawl (2019)

I would never have chosen to go to see this movie, which is one of the problems with - or strengths of, depending on the film! - Cineword's Secret Screenings. There is such an excitement to not knowing what you're about to watch, but that was tempered with the audible grown I and many other …

The Hate U Give (2018)

When Starr witnesses a cop shooting of her best friend after a random traffic stop, her already less than simple life only gets more complicated. One of the few non-white faces at her private school, should she choose to hide her involvement in the tragedy or risk being tagged 'ghetto'? As she faces pressure to …

Triple 9 (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 …

In the Heart of the Sea (2015)

Herman Melville's masterpiece, Moby Dick, or The Whale, was inspired by real events. This movie purports to tell that tale: of a real whaling ship, the Essex, destroyed by a whale - but also the desperate struggle for survival by the crew following the incident, adrift a thousand miles from home. To my shame, I have never read Moby Dick (I …