June 2018

Reviews 

Review – ‘The Bookshop’ is a quaint drama, with a weird tone

14/07/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, Bill Nighy, Certificate: PG, Drama, Emily Mortimer, Harvey Bennett, Honor Kneafsey, Isabel Coixet, James Lance, June 2018, Patricia Clarkson, Rating: Pop, The Bookshop

Emily Mortimer and Bill Nighy star as defenders of literature in the bizarre British drama The Bookshop, which is tough to describe.

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Featured Reviews 

Review – ‘Leave No Trace’ buries its themes under slow-burn storytelling

11/07/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, Alyssa Lynn, Ben Foster, Certificate: PG, Dale Dickey, Dana Millican, Debra Granik, Drama, Jeff Kober, June 2018, Leave No Trace, Rating: Pop, Ryan Joiner, Thomasin McKenzie

Debra Granik follows a father and daughter from their wilderness home into the modern world in Leave No Trace.

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Featured Guest Posts Reviews 

Review – Friendship comedy ‘Tag’ finds tenderness amidst the action

09/07/201809/07/2018 Patrick Wilson 0 Comment 2018, Annabelle Wallis, Certificate: 15, Comedy, Ed Helms, Hannibal Buress, Isla Fisher, Jake Johnson, Jeff Tomsic, Jeremy Renner, Jon Hamm, June 2018, Leslie Bibb, Rashida Jones, Rating: Pop, Tag

Jeremy Renner and Ed Helms square off as lifelong friends held together by a childhood game in the over-cranked comedy Tag.

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Reviews 

Review – ‘Patrick’ is an awful romcom coasting on pug charm

09/07/201811/07/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, Adrian Scarborough, Beattie Edmondson, Certificate: PG, Comedy, Ed Skrein, Emily Atack, Jennifer Saunders, June 2018, Mandie Fletcher, Patrick, Peter Davison, Rating: Poop, Romcom, Tom Bennett

A pug protagonist is not enough to save Patrick from disappearing into the doldrums of particularly poor British comedy.

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Review – ‘Sicario 2: Soldado’ lacks subtlety, but packs in hard-edged thrills

09/07/201809/07/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, Benicio del Toro, Catherine Keener, Certificate: 15, Drama, Isabela Moner, Jeffrey Donovan, Josh Brolin, June 2018, Matthew Modine, Rating: Pop, Sicario, Sicario 2, Stefano Sollima, Taylor Sheridan, Thriller

Benicio Del Toro and Josh Brolin return as the morally ambiguous figures taking on the drug cartels in Sicario 2: Soldado.

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Review – ‘Adrift’ is a shipwreck saga with an emotional heart

29/06/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, Adrift, Adventure, Baltasar Kormákur, Certificate: 12, Drama, Elizabeth Hawthorne, Grace Palmer, Jeffrey Thomas, June 2018, Rating: Pop, Sam Claflin, Shailene Woodley

Shailene Woodley and Sam Claflin battle for survival at sea in Baltasar Kormákur’s latest visually stunning adventure movie.

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Review – Mind-bending sci-fi ‘The Endless’ is as frustrating as it is intriguing

29/06/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, Aaron Moorhead, Callie Hernandez, Certificate: 15, Horror, James Jordan, June 2018, Justin Benson, Kira Powell, Lew Temple, Rating: Pop, Sci-Fi, Tate Ellington, The Endless

Directing duo Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead take centre stage as they star in The Endless, which weaves a complex sci-fi mystery.

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Review – Wilde biopic ‘The Happy Prince’ features a great performance, and little else

28/06/201828/06/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, Certificate: 15, Colin Firth, Colin Morgan, Drama, Edwin Thomas, Emily Watson, June 2018, Rating: Poop, Rupert Everett, The Happy Prince, Tom Wilkinson

Rupert Everett shines in Oscar Wilde biopic The Happy Prince, but it’s a film that lacks much in the way of dramatic energy.

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Review – Fashion doc ‘McQueen’ is always engaging, but rarely illuminating

28/06/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, Alexander McQueen, Certificate: 15, Documentary, Ian Bonhôte, June 2018, McQueen, Peter Ettedgui, Rating: Pop

Controversial, tragic fashion designer Alexander McQueen is the subject of a new documentary, tracing the story of his life.

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DVD & Blu-ray Reviews 

DVD Review – ‘The Lodgers’ never provokes a shiver within its haunted house

28/06/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, Bill Milner, Brian O'Malley, Certificate: 15, Charlotte Vega, David Bradley, DVD, Eugene Simon, Horror, June 2018, Rating: Poop, The Lodgers

Haunted house horror movie The Lodgers is a rather generic genre tale that chooses to wallow in uninventive misery and bleakness.

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Blu-ray Review – ‘The Addiction’ turns vampirism into a compelling philosophical treatise

27/06/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, Abel Ferrara, Annabella Sciorra, Blu-ray, Certificate: 18, Christopher Walken, Drama, Edie Falco, Fredro Starr, Horror, June 2018, Kathryn Erbe, Lili Taylor, Rating: Pop, The Addiction

Abel Ferrara takes vampirism in a very different direction, through the lens of Lili Taylor’s terrific performance, in The Addiction.

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