Short Cut to Hell is decidely kooky and almost Coenesque. It's hard to watch this and not picture Cage and Goodman in a remake.

It's an effective fatalistic thriller. There is some choice dialogue, and great characterisations. Rivers channels his willingness to kill anyone for money via James Dean - but it's an effective performance. His impotence and loneliness masked by his coldness with a gun. And Johnson takes Doris Day as her template. It makes for an unusual pairing…

It's impossible to review this film objectively. It remains iconic and is such a key film in my early development of a love for the movies. Watching this is always tinged with a warm nostalgia for those first trips to the cinema - or the many childhood rewatches on TV.

So it was absolutely lovely to see this on the big screen again after all these years. That opening shot of the Star Destroyer, the first sound of those blasters…

There is an edge to the satire in this.....the focus may be on an 'outlier' overly-narcissistic couple (an understatement!) But it is clear Borgli wants to incriminate us all in the ego-centric, attention seeking world we are creating around us. The shouty, competitive environment of social and on-line media is transported warts and all into our living world - with far from flattering reflections on our what we are doing to ourselves!

This criticism is all valid with me: I'm…

A good example of star power elevating a film off the floor....

...because narrative-wise, this is shocking. It's a mess: poorly paced, unengaging, dull...and other suitable descriptive synomns...

But the musical numbers are good, even if they are just shoe-horned in and are, more often than not, superfluous to the story being told. They could almost come from any other musical.

Still, it's a couple of hours spent with Marilyn, Ethel, Donald and Mitzi - who is fab - a…

An interesting documentary about a genuine British sporting legend.

Great to relive his sporting achievements. There is some wonderful footage here of Daley's triumphs in Moscow and Los Angeles - wow, that amazing third discus throw - when the going gets tough etc. Lovely to see these on the big screen - an improvement on the black and white portable TV that I first saw these images on. Although, like many of my age, I cherish those memories!

Documentary doesn't…

Decided to go see this opening weekend after a bout of nostalgia for the time when a new Pixar release felt like an unmissable event - which is a little ironic now having seen the film!

This is fun, clever and coherent - even if it lacks a sense of creative risk taking. It decides to play it safe, both with the story and the animation. But within its boundaries it does what it does really well. There is much…

Highly energetic and ionate - filled with a genuine spirit of coke and ketamine fuelled rebellion.

The approach is reminiscent of early Guy Ritchie with a strong dose of Trainspotting influence - in which the film throws everything at you: fast cuts, slo-mo, live music, kneedle-drops, chase scenes, humour, comic violence, realistic violence, animation, an A-lister in a small but important role, humour - both edgy and silly, politics, sex, drugs. More, more, more.....

But certainly more sticks than doesn't.…

A film so crazily ahead of its time, it is hard to fathom how this came out of Disney.

The aesthetic still feels radical.

It's not just the digital world that is beautifully rendered. Look at the red neon lit helicopter landing on the blue neon roof; a grey suited David Warner walks through grey office corridors, into his large black office.... the twinkling city lights in the background; and turns on the orange buttons of the Master Computer: a…

A soufflé of a film. Fun, light and enjoyable.

The exploration of a repressive patriarchy, anti-immigrant sentiment and parallels with the toxicity of social media is gentle. There's not too much message head-smashing here. Politics with a small 'p'.

Instead enjoyment comes from what is a pretty interesting true story and some fine actresses, dressed in post-Edwardian period costume, cursing like troopers. This may not be clever, but is funny.

The film pulls itself away from becoming a full-blown drama,…

A film that seems to be maturing well. I enjoyed this far more than on my last viewing.

It helps to see it at the cinema. Not just for Lean's elegant eye and beautiful vistas. But the absurdity of the British presence in India is highlighted by being able to see more clearly the visual contrast between the stiffness of the English - pale skinned in their white suits - with the colour and vibrancy of the Indian culture that…