My Sailor, My Love is a late-life romance drama that gives its elder leads the respect of complex, or at least lived-in, characterization.
Howard (James Cosmo) is a retired sea captain, long widowed, who lives alone on the coast of rural Ireland.…
Month: September 2023
REVIEW: Rise of the Footsoldier: Vengeance
The sixth film in the long-running Essex hardman franchise, Rise of the Footsoldier: Vengeance is entertaining, convoluted, and… strangely progressive?
Returning as Pat Tate, a fictionalised version of a real-life wrong’ un, Craig Fairbrass gives us a slightly cuddlier, more sympathetic version of the character than the coked-up psychopath of some previous installments.…
REVIEW: A Haunting in Venice
Given how littered it is by corpses, it’s remarkable the extent to which ghosts are absent from the murder mystery genre.
Aside from the plot ramifications – it’s tricky sustaining the whole “whodunnit” aspect when you have an incorporeal witness – it does tend to undermine the foundation of rationality on which the process of detection is built.…
REVIEW: The Equalizer 3
Nearly a decade on from the first movie, I find myself reviewing the third and reportedly final instalment of Denzel Washington-Antoine Fuqua’s Equalizer franchise.
For the conclusion of a trilogy, albeit one with no narrative through-line, The Equalizer 3 might be the most confusing blockbuster I’ve seen since Tenet.…