What The Craggus Saw

Beauty may only be skin deep but the laughs in cosmetics comedy Like A Boss (2020) are pretty thin on the ground too.

This film, like the vast majority of the products offered by the multi-billion dollar industry it attempts to lampoon, is probably not meant for me. Set in the vicious, ego-driven and cut-throat world of prestige beauty, it’s less concerned with the ugly side of the beauty industry and more concerned with character schtick and slapstick…

Star Trek: Picard (S1E05) Stardust City Rag Review

*SPOILERS* Judging by “Stardust City Rag”, which brings us to the halfway point of this debut season of “Star Trek Picard”, the raison d’être for this series would seem to be to bring back old fan favourites to either kill off immediately or show you how shitty their lives have been since you last saw…

Beauty may only be skin deep but the laughs in cosmetics comedy Like A Boss (2020) are pretty thin on the ground too.

Gordon Gekko lied to us. Greed (2020) is not good.

Michael Winterbottom’s unfortunately unfocussed polemic takes a swipe at the lifestyles of the rich and the shameless, or maybe at the grotesque exploitation underpinning the ‘fast fashion’ industry or perhaps at the financial chicanery that underwrites those big blockbuster boardroom deals you read about in the Metro while on your commute or even the humanitarian…

Doctor Who: The Haunting Of Villa Diodati (S12E08) Review

*SPOILERS* Finally, the thirteenth Doctor’s era gets a true masterpiece, an episode which not only contains a fantastic Whovian story in its own right but one that involves a historical figure and prepares the way for a high stakes season finale. While the past few episodes have struggled to juggle the number of characters and…

Time flies when you’re having fun and Sonic The Hedgehog (2020) makes its ninety-nine minutes fly by.

Despite its troubled (and very publicly delayed) journey to the big screen, “Sonic The Hedgehog” has lost none of its momentum as it races in multiplexes with a lot of heart, humour and a rolling-back-the-years performance by Jim Carrey. Forced to flee his home as a child, Sonic arrives on Earth and makes a life…

Star Trek: Picard S1E04: Absolute Candor Review

*SPOILERS* Last time I suggested we may finally be free of flashbacks being used as a lazy way to introduce new characters that we’re meant to care about, but that promise became a prison for me as soon as this episode started with the entire pre-credits sequence being just that, this time bringing us the…