The Film Diaries: May – July 2021

Distribution companies are slowly but surely growing in assurances that with the cinema’s reopened, the viewers will come. Not wanting to do a few sparing reviews, I decided to chunk together my thoughts of everything I’ve been lucky enough to see in cinema over the last three months. Judas and The Black Messiah I didn’t […]

A Movie A Day In The Month of May 2021

Old habits die hard… A Week AwayStop! Or My Mom Will ShootFord v FerrariParasiteThe InternshipCarolJumperKick-AssKick-Ass 2Marley & MeGreenlandTamara DreweThe DigThe JudgeOkjaSucker PunchAlways Be My MaybeMankRed TailsStowawayCall Me by Your NameHeathersS.W.A.T.SleepersFriendsgivingAmerican History XArmy of the DeadJudas and the Black MessiahMortal KombatP.S. I Love YouWonderGhost RiderThunder ForceThe Sweetest ThingFriends with BenefitsIntolerable CrueltyRaya and the Last DragonVampire AcademyThe […]

January Favourites

Is it still acceptable to wish you all a happy new year as we enter the second week of February? I have finally emerged from hibernation, and though I slacked slightly in my movie watchage for the month of January, I did excel when it came to Television and Books. Here are my favourites. FILM 🍿 […]

2020 Wrap-Up

It feels weird to be closing the chapter on 2020 as this entire year has been one big blur and it hasn’t fully registered that a new year is nigh, let alone the fact it’s December. As usual I’ll take you through some stats and some favourites from 2020 across Film, Television, Books and heck […]

December Favourites

It’s that time again: MONTHLY FAVOURITES. Succinct favourites across my consumption of film, television and novels, as well as what I’ve been up to creatively. FILM 🍿 There was a lot of film watchage in December, and to be honest my re-watch of old favourite, The Chronicles of Narnia, The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe almost […]

12 Christmas Movie Picks

Happy Holidays Reader! A bit of a random post here but I figured the content was already there – created and originally posted by me on Twitter – so there was no harm in doubling down on it. I’ll keep it short but have a scroll through the cards below to discover twelve of my […]

Trilogy Review: The Santa Clause

When Scott Calvin (Tim Allen) decided to slip on that red suit one Christmas, he really should have read the small print. I thought I would bring a festive feel to this months trilogy review with an old favourite. Well I say favourite, and when I do I specifically mean the first Santa Clause movie […]

Netflix Review: The Christmas Chronicles 2

Christmas Bells Jingled: 🔔🔔🔔🔔 Kate Pierce (Darby Camp) gets her wish to be away from her mum and her new boyfriend during the holidays. She gets whisked away from a sunny beach in Mexico to the cold of the North Pole, and the comfort of her old friend Santa Claus (Kurt Russell). Wrapped up in an adventure […]

Netflix Christmas: Dolly Parton’s Christmas on the Square

Christmas Bells Jingled: 🔔🔔🔔🔔🔔 Regina arrives like a cold storm, to her home town where she is quick to, and unforgiving in, handing all the residents an eviction notice for Christmas Eve. Thankfully Regina has a blonde haired vocally gifted angel watching over her, to help thaw her long since frosted heart. This small town […]

Netflix Review: Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

It’s a scorching day in 1920s Chicago, where in one recording studio, Ma Rainey (Viola Davis) is set to record her first album – if she ever arrives. Her four piece band, left to practice until Ma makes her entrance, is made up of three older, calmer men, Cutler (Colman Domingo), Toledo (Glynn Turman) and […]

British TV: Small Axe: Education

The Small Axe anthology so far, Mangrove, Lovers Rock, Red, White and Blue and Alex Wheatle Written by Steve McQueen and Alastair SiddonsDirected by Steve McQueen Broadcast: BBC One, 13th December 2020Synopsis: When Kingsley is transferred into a special needs school, it is clear teaching these missed placed children is not on the syllabus.Cast: Kenyah Sandy, Sharlene Whyte, Tamara […]

British TV: Small Axe: Alex Wheatle

The Small Axe anthology so far, Mangrove and Lovers Rock, Red, White and Blue. Written by Steve McQueen and Alastair SiddonsDirected by Steve McQueen Broadcast: BBC One, 6th December 2020Synopsis: Based on the true story of novelist Alex Wheatle who went to prison following the 1981 Brixton riots.Cast: Sheyi Cole, Robbie Gee, Johann Myers, Jonathan Jules From a kid who grew […]

Netflix Christmas: The Princess Switch: Switched Again

Christmas Bells Jingled: 🔔🔔🔔 Back for another crazy switcheroo, Princess Stacey (Vanessa Hudgens) and Lady Margret (Vanessa Hudgens) pull the wool over the eyes of a tiny imaginary European country once more – this time there is one complication they didn’t account for. Sequel to The Princess Switch (2018), it was never not an option […]

Netflix Christmas: Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey

Christmas Bells Jingled: 🔔🔔🔔🔔 It’s been thirty years since former toymaker Jeronicus (Forest Whitaker) the owner of a pawn shop, invented any new toys. When his granddaughter (Madalen Mills) shows up on his doorstep one winter, he goes on an unwilling but unnecessary journey. If you want music, you want family friendly and you want […]

British TV: Small Axe: Red, White and Blue

The Small Axe anthology so far, Mangrove and Lovers Rock. Written by Steve McQueen and Courttia NewlandDirected by Steve McQueen Broadcast: BBC One, 29th November 2020Synopsis: Based on the true story of Leroy Logan who joined the force following his fathers assault by the Metropolitan Police. Cast: John Boyega, Steve Toussaint, Antonia Thomas Leroy Logan (John Boyega) was all […]

Netflix Christmas: Operation Christmas Drop

Christmas Bells Jingled: 🔔🔔🔔 Erica (Kat Graham), sent from Washington by her boss to shut down an army base, is met by Cpt. Andrew Jantz (Alexander Ludwig) who tries to make her see the wonder in their annual Christmas Drop. The movie itself really isn’t great. I found Andrew’s character incredibly pushy and speaks to […]

Netflix Christmas: Holidate

Christmas Bells Jingled: 🔔🔔 When Sloane (Emma Roberts) and Jackson (Luke Bracey) meet by chance post a crappy Christmas Day, they agree that getting through the holidays would suck a lot less if they did it together. First up on the Netflix Christmas train Holidate – which was actually a great bridge into the holiday […]

November Favourites

It’s that time again: MONTHLY FAVOURITES. Succinct favourites across my consumption of film, television and novels, as well as what I’ve been up to creatively. FILM 🍿 I watched quite a hodgepodge of movies in November, from a couple of Christmas movies to a re-watch of the Indiana Jones movies. In all of that there was only […]

Trilogy Review: Indiana Jones

Professor by day, archaeological adventurer by night, Indiana Jones, played by the one and only Harrison Ford, is never one to back down from a rare find. I have indeed watched all the Indiana Jones movies before but it may not have been since the latest instalment, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal […]

British TV: Small Axe: Lovers Rock

Check out my review for the first instalment of the Small Axe anthology, Mangrove. Written by Steve McQueen and Courttia NewlandDirected by Steve McQueen Broadcast: BBC One, 22nd November 2020Synopsis: Aubyn and Franklin meet during a blues party in the 1980’s, to the sound of lovers rock.Cast: Micheal Ward, Amarah-Jae St. Aubyn In regards to a synopsis – […]