See How They Run

Hmmmm. Can’t ever remember going to the pictures and having more fun with the seating than the film. But Screen 12 at the Odeon has seats so plush that I think they must have started life in a palace. They are the size of small boats and upholstered in a luxurious faux leather which might…

Red Sparrow

I saw this just as the Russian Nerve Agent attack in Salisbury was plunging Anglo-Russian relations to a precariously low level, which is the only reason I can conceive that it has attracted such interest and performed so well at the box office -because this is a seriously terrible film. I don’t  just mean that…

No Escape

A real shocker and not in a good way. This was a very unpleasant experience from start to finish which could hardly be more racist if the WASP family at the heart of all the action had pulled their eyes into slits and started transposing their rs and ls. It tells the story of the…

The Grand Seduction

Just when you thought Brendan Gleeson could do no wrong he gets himself involved in a project so misguided that even a well trained Labrador with sat nav would struggle to point it back in the right direction. The aim was presumably to produce a whimsical update on other films about small remote communities wrestling…

Grace of Monaco

The frocks were nice and Roger Ashton-Griffiths for me gave a much more vocally accurate version of Alfred Hitchcock than either Anthony Hopkins or Toby Jones in their recent outings. But that apart this was a car crash of a movie. Except that we didn’t get the car crash! Just who thought that in these…