Your Licence To Let Go
A melancholic multiplex masterpiece on madness? Marvel to DC, superheroes to anti-heroes, we are more than familiar with the business that can be made from the expanding cinematic universes we have been immersed in for years. Big, brash budgets, in which Marvel have taken more risks with directors to mix things up. Warner Bros certainly Continue Reading
Words cannot describe how much you need to experience the rare and raw beauty of the transcendent Wild Rose. From a very different universe to our world that is about to be bombarded with everything Avengers, can I implore you to follow the yellow brick road to Glasgow – led by director Tom Harper, inspired Continue Reading
A must see film that just hits all the right notes – laughter, tears, and an inspirational challenge to our values and core being. Green Book is a joy from beginning to end. A simple story that puts us in the company of its’ two equally brilliant leads – Mahershala Ali and Viggo Mortensen. We Continue Reading
Turin Brakes, like Olivia Colman, are national treasures that have been working hard for so long to win hearts and minds. Although Filmopolis originates from a love of film, we embrace music as an equally loved second child. Film and music have co-existed as art forms for many years, and the Turin Brakes troubadour, Olly Continue Reading
The new wave of documentary film makers continue to loom large, in this case “Supersonic” Mat Whitecross shines a light on what in fact could be the new Fab Four of the last 20 years… Director Mat Whitecross has taken over 20 years of friendship with Coldplay while also finding his own voice as Continue Reading
Set just before the Watergate scandal, The Post is a bold statement of a film aligning itself with some very current reflections on the role of the media, and a questionable US Administration. This film has all the credentials of an awards darling – Spielberg directing, Streep and Hanks, and some weighty subject matter. Continue Reading
A mother takes drastic and alternative methods to manipulate action from the local law enforcement, following the unsolved case of the rape and murder of her daughter. Writer / Director Martin Mcdonagh is pre-dominantly a theatre guy. If unfamiliar with his stage work, you may well have been entertained by one of his most Continue Reading
Aaron Sorkin bets big on his muse Molly Bloom in this dazzling directorial debut. I was totally unaware of the story of the real life Molly Bloom. She went from being an Olympic level skier to being an FBI target in the last few years based on her part in instigating and running some Continue Reading
Contrary to many, I believe Episode IV (not Empire) to be the high water mark in the Starwars galaxy. Rian Johnson has created a divisive and flawed masterpiece that I believe is its most accomplished companion to date. Starwars started out in becoming stratospherically huge and almost sacred, reaching and bewitching huge swathes of different Continue Reading
If you caught either Sicario or Hell or High Water, their writer Taylor Sheridan takes the directorial helm first hand. With an in-form Jeremy Renner and Elizabeth Olsen in this latest indie thriller, we track the murder of a young Native American woman. If you know anything of these two films previously penned Continue Reading
