 By Adam Ray Palmer
Today’s film review is of the coming-of-age comedy Everybody Wants Some!! from the talented writer/director Richard Linklater. This is Richard’s second venture into the adolescent world in as many years after 2014’s Boyhood starring Ethan Hawke and Oscar-winning actress Patricia Arquette. Everybody Wants Some!! is a slight departure from Boyhood as this is more of a comedy than drama, but is Linklater right to swap the heartstrings for witty banter? I’ll tell you… 26/5/2016 Demolition Film Review. By Adam Ray Palmer
Today’s review comes from the director who received my 2013 film of the year award for Dallas Buyers Club. Now, in 2016, Jean-Marc Vallée is back with the Jake Gyllenhaal helmed movie Demolition. Naomi Watts and Chris Cooper are in supporting roles. I had mixed feelings before going into the Phoenix screening due to Vallée’s previous two films. I loved ‘DBC’ but hated Wild, so this could have gone either way… 24/5/2016 Sing Street Film Review. By Adam Ray Palmer
Today’s film is the latest addition to Dublin-born writer/director John Carney’s resume. He is still running with the musical theme but this time he is telling a coming-of-age tale in Sing Street. His last ‘musical’ production was back in 2013 with the Mark Ruffalo and Keira Knightley helmed film Begin Again. That received very little acclaim and perhaps rightly so. But now, in 2016, John has released his best film yet in the form of Sing Street. In fact, let me tell you why this is one of the best films of the year… 23/5/2016 X-Men Apocalypse Film Review. By Adam Ray Palmer
The film I am reviewing today is the third picture from Marvel Studios that I have covered in 2016, well in fact, the last three months. X-Men: Apocalypse rounds out the current trilogy of the new generation of X-Men mutants (I must state there has been no confirmation but it looks like it is their last). Apocalypse is the eighth X-Men film since the series began back in 2000. All these movies have grossed over $3 billion at the box office, and after seeing Apocalypse, I am pretty sure this will add a fair few cents too… 19/5/2016 Miles Ahead Film Review. By Adam Ray Palmer
Today’s review is a bit of a flashback even though it has only just been released in the UK. I caught Don Cheadle’s Miles Ahead earlier this year at the 66th Berlin Film Festival. So when the Phoenix cinema in Leicester stated they were screening it, I couldn’t resist a second viewing. It’s one of those films that needs a second look to confirm an opinion. For a cinema with a focus on the arts and culture, Miles Ahead is the perfect film to screen at the Phoenix; and it received a great reception. 18/5/2016 The Assassin Film Review. By Adam Ray Palmer
Today’s review is for a film that’s released on DVD next week. StudioCanal sent me an early copy of The Assassin for a second viewing on blu-ray after catching it at last year’s London Film Festival. Directed by Hsiao-Hsien Hou and starring the Asian sensation Qi Shu, The Assassin is a Taiwanese movie that lit up Cannes in 2015 and featured at LFF59. With the DVD being released on the 23rd May, I had to revisit the film to see if my first impressions were correct… 12/5/2016 Green Room Film Review. By Adam Ray Palmer
Today’s review is a horror-thriller that’s helmed by a few Hollywood A-listers trying to escape neo-Nazi skinheads from killing them – yep! Directed by a man who knows his way around a horror-thriller, Green Room stars Patrick Stewart, Anton Yelchin and the talented Imogen Poots. The independent horror has been made on a shoe-string budget so it’s heavily relying on the experienced cast and ‘shot caller’…  By Adam Ray Palmer
Today’s review follows on from our feature last Friday night. We interviewed the cast of Florence Foster Jenkins including Meryl Streep, Hugh Grant and The Big Bang Theory’s Simon Helberg. So, the only way to follow that chat was to release our review of the poignant life story movie, Florence Foster Jenkins. We caught this biopic in a packed screening at the Phoenix cinema in Leicester. This arty production is a great fit for a stylish cinema… 5/5/2016 Eye In The Sky Film Review. By Adam Ray Palmer
Today’s review is a downbeat one. It’s downbeat in terms of narrative and also for a certain cast member of Eye In The Sky. This film will be Alan Rickman’s last ever feature film now he has sadly passed away a couple of months ago. The other downbeat reason is the crazy world we live in - this will become clearer later. I’m so glad I caught this film in a great independent cinema that is all about the art and culture, exactly what Alan Rickman oozed. It seemed fitting to catch this move at the Phoenix cinema in Leicester…  By Adam Ray Palmer
Today’s review follows on with the superhero theme from last month’s Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice and February’s Deadpool. Marvel has released their second movie of the year after Ryan Reynolds’s Deadpool boomed at the box office three months ago. Captain America: Civil War is projected to be one the biggest movies of the year. With this film being a Marvel Studios product and having a group of Hollywood A-listers fronting it, who could argue against this being a commercial success? But would it warrant the box office triumph…? |
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