Poor Things (2024) ★★☆☆☆

An excellent use of puffy sleeves. Every year, there’s a critically acclaimed film that makes you question just how the critics glossed over all of its absurdity. This year, it’s Poor Things. The film pairs Victorian dark horror with steampunk, adapted by screenwriter Tony McNamara from the 1992 novel by Alasdair Gray and directed by…

La La Land (2016) ★★★★★

“Someone in the Crowd” could take you where you want to go.  Aspiring actress, Mia (Emma Stone), works as a barista in a coffee shop on the Warner Bros studio lot. She dreams of becoming an actress, but spends too much of her time auditioning for bad roles. Meanwhile, struggling jazz musician, Sebastian (Ryan Gosling), hopes to…

Top Five: Spider-Man films

Aside from Batman, Spider-Man will always be one of my favourite superheroes. Here, from Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man, to the much maligned third instalment…to The Amazing Spider-Man, I will rank the films in order of my personal favourites. What order would you rank the films? The question is, which film was the best of the bunch? Looks like you’ll have to give my…