Film

★★★☆☆ In Dragged Across Concrete, Mel Gibson and Vince Vaughn play cops Brett and Anthony, suspended for six weeks without pay for an act of police brutality. This perceived injustice stirs something in Mad Mel, and he becomes of the opinion that he and Vince should rob some gangsters as payback. This is the third film from S. Craig Zahler, after Bone Tomahawk with Kurt Russell and The Brawl in Cell Block 99, also starring Vaughn. Each follows a set template, in which...

Hollywood A-list star George Clooney has called for a boycott of nine hotels because of their links to Brunei. The state is planning to impose laws that will impose the death penalty, by stoning, for adultery and gay sex. The brutal legislation is supposed to be in place from next week. “Let that sink in. In the onslaught of news where we see the world backsliding into authoritarianism this stands alone,”  Clooney wrote in an opinion piece for Deadline. Clooney wants...

★★★☆☆ The career of one of British music’s great eccentrics is affectionately told in Steve Sullivan’s documentary Being Frank: The Chris Sievey Story. The film chronicles the life of Chris Sievey, a musician who took many guises between the early 1970s and his death in 2010. Sievey’s work was full on experimentation and saw him dabbling in homemade film and even early video games. His career took an unexpected turn when he began portraying his larger than life alter-ego Frank Sidebottom....

★★★★☆ Evil, posing not as a demon or vampire, but rising from within us, pitting family members against each other. While there is lots to be said for Jordan Peele’s Us, this same format followed by Kevin Kölsch and Dennis Widmyer’s Pet Sematary is another excellent feature that dares to delve within the horror inside of us all. Based on the novel by Stephen King, doctor Louis Creed (Jason Clarke) moves with his wife Rachel (Amy Seimetz), children Ellie (Jete Laurence) and Gage...

Professor Hubert Zitt, an avid lover of sci-fi, painted the Zweibrücken Observatory to look like a giant R2-D2.

★★★★★ Home invasion is among the scariest archetypes in horror, and Jordan Peele’s Us is the latest in a long tradition of twisted stories that tap into our deepest fears. What’s brilliant about Us is that it subverts what we know about the genre to create a delirious, doppelganger nightmare. This a brash and chilling movie with subtexts in abundance and much like Peele’s debut feature Get Out, it carries a political message. The focus is on the Wilson family....

The picturesque fishing village, Port Isaac, continues to punch above its weight (Doc Martin is filmed here & Nathan Outlaw has two restaurants is the fishing port) with this lovable story of real/reel men, both fishermen and their friends, who made it big singing their heartfelt songs of the sea. The setting is a beautiful port on the rugged North Cornwall coast, where men's hearts are as true and as strong as Cornish Oak. The yarn, based on true life,...

★★☆☆☆ With its offbeat drama and David Lynch-style weirdness, Under the Silver Lake captures a hyperreal version of Los Angeles, taking viewers into baffling world of mystery. It pays homage to a history of iconic movies, but it dances with so many styles, themes and subplots that the film collapses from the weight of it all. This is David Robert Mitchell’s third movie after It Follows, one of the best horror films of the decade. Under the Silver Lake is...

Another day another humiliation for Theresa May, this time from the Dutch PM. The Dutch PM, Mark Rutte, compared the struggling British PM to the knight from comedy classic film, Monty Phyton and the Holy Grail. The hapless knight is attacked and bits of him are sliced off, but continues to think he is winning the fight. In the cult classic film, the character has all four of his limbs cut off but wants to keep on fighting telling his...