• How Long is Too Long?

    Films are getting longer and longer, and I don’t think my bladder can quite handle it. I’m massively in favour of directors and creatives being given more freedom to put the stories they want to tell on screen. If a story needs 3 or even 4 hours to be...
  • Film Review: The Irishman

    Martin Scorsese’s exceptional The Irishman asks what happens when the guns go down, and the bodies are buried....
  • Film Review: Joker

    In Todd Phillips’s new adaptation, Joaquin Phoenix is a simulacrum of the sad clown....
  • Film Review – Dirty Grandpa

    The topless 72-year-old acting legend that is Robert De Niro weightlifting the also topless High School Musical legend Zac Efron is one way of attracting audiences, as is having a young man disturbingly watch his granddad sensually put on stockings. Channelling its inner Graduate, Dirty Grandpa attracted me precisely because of the...
  • Scrapbook – Movember at the Movies

    Commemorating the month of Movember, we’ve compiled a short list of the five most magnificently memorable movie moustache and beard styles in order to raise awareness for, and help change the face of men’s health. The Toothbrush Moustache Wearer: Charlie Chaplin as The Little Tamp First Appearance: Kid Auto Races...