Reviews written by Fiona Ingram
I think I am right when I say News of the World is one of the best movies I have seen in a very, very long time. The story is deceptively simple: a task that must be performed but one that turns into a dangerous mission. “In 1870, Captain...
Movie producer Max Barber (Robert de Niro) and his naïve but starstruck nephew and partner Walter are in dire straits with yet another movie (Killer Nuns?) bombing at the box office. Trouble is, they owe a lot of money to a mobster called Reggie Fontaine (played by Morgan Freeman)....
Plane is a 2023 action thriller movie starring Gerard Butler, Tony Goldwyn, Mike Colter, and Paul Ben-Victor. The story starts innocuously enough with commercial Trailblazer Airlines Flight 119 flying from Singapore to Honolulu via Tokyo. Of course, the weather is bad and of course the greedy bosses at the...
Plane is a 2023 action thriller movie starring Gerard Butler, Tony Goldwyn, Mike Colter, and Paul Ben-Victor. The story starts innocuously enough with commercial Trailblazer Airlines Flight 119 flying from Singapore to Honolulu via Tokyo. Of course, the weather is bad and of course the greedy bosses at the...
The Fatman: It’s been a long time since Santa left me gifts under the tree but I sure as hell would not want Mel Gibson doing this. Long story short: a spoiled, precocious brat gets a lump of coal for Xmas, so he hires a hit man to take...
The story is paper thin and is a mishmash of all the other iconic sci-fi movies that have gone before. Alien seems to have been the biggest influence with World War Z thrown in and a touch of The Strain. But all these other movies are Oscar-worthy compared with...
Lots of pink, fluffy stuff, odiously sweet and totally lacking in substance. I don’t know why Angelina Jolie is in the movie because either she can’t act, or she did not feel like acting, or she did not think acting was required, just floating around in a variety of...
Another Year, by director Mike Leigh, follows a year in the life of a sixty-something couple, Tom (Jim Broadbent) and Gerri (Ruth Sheen). He’s a commercial geologist; she’s an NHS therapist. The director is known for weaving stories around fictional ordinary folk. In Another Year we find Tom and...
