How this ever got described as a comedy is a bit of a mystery – but whatever the genre I found it a compelling (if absurd) watch. Having read nothing in advance about it, I really enjoyed the ongoing jaw-drops
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
A gang of tropes wind up at a rich person’s home to be tormented and in the mix (IS he there by mistake, or not?!) is Daniel Craig channelling the chicken lawyer from Futurama to solve it all at the
The Favourite
Starting as a fairly fun social climb tracking the inner machinations of Queen Anne’s rule this piece develops into a manipulative and then dark drama on trust, vulnerability, love and power. It’s a film that’ll mainly be remembered for the
Knives Out
Complex whodunnit with quite the cast – certainly no linear solution for Daniel Craig’s Benoit Blanc to solve… I did find the Southern Gentleman accent a bit distracting, snapping my mind back to the chicken lawyer from Futurama. The characters
The Dead Don’t Die
Pure wank. I mean, you’ve got the ingredients for a sure-fire winner of a film when you cast Bill Murray, Adam Driver, Chloe Sevigny, RZA, Steve Buscemi, Tom Waits, Danny Glover and Tilda Swinton in a small-town zombie flick. But
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
We chose this totally at random off Netflix without having heard or read anything about it, purely on the strength of it having Frances McDormand in the lead role. Captivating film with some great performances, in a sort of Coen-esque