1917 – Is it genius or just a gimmick?
Find out why Sam Mendes’ World War 1 epic 1917 is an awards season favourite in this [...]
History
Lords of Chaos – the devil is in the details
As a young headbanger in the late nineties I was captivated by the stories coming out of Norway about Black Metal and this band Mayhem that was taking the ridiculous and [...]
Overlord – gory good fun but actually nothing special
Overlord does exactly what it says on the packaging, and while it’s nice to get what you paid for, that’s all you get thanks to some pretty prescriptive [...]
Bohemian Rhapsody – looks like real life, escapes from reality
History will be kind to the surviving members of Queen because it seems that they will write [...]
Scream For Me Sarajevo – spirit under siege
I normally watch documentaries as an escape from the fiction I review, but this one is too good not to [...]
The Watchman 