Film Review

By Preston Wilder The battle for the soul of the horror movie continues to rage. Some (Us, for instance) use the genre to make political...

By Preston Wilder Come on lad, says the sergeant to a daydreaming soldier: “Pick a man. Bring your kit” – and we’re off, just like...

No-one would describe Jumanji: The Next Level as next-level filmmaking, unless the ‘next level’ is the one where films turn into glorified video games. Still,...

By Preston Wilder It’s been a good (i.e. bad) year for feline-themed family films sabotaged by being over-literal. First we had The Lion King, with...

By Preston Wilder Princess Leia (Carrie Fisher) doesn’t mince words. “Don’t tell me what things look like,” she demands of her people; “Tell me what...

By Preston Wilder I decided to go the extra mile, and watched Knives Out twice before this review. It wasn’t hard – I actually liked...

By Preston Wilder It’s a good week for remakes of 70s movies, though I don’t know if a new reconstruction of the same historical event...

By Preston Wilder Lots of talking-points in the new Black Christmas, not a lot of scary moments – though I guess it depends on your...

By Preston Wilder It’s a good week for New York movies at the Cyprus multiplex; we have Motherless Brooklyn, set in Brooklyn and Harlem –...

By Preston Wilder Poor motherless Brooklyn, alone in the world and alone with his demons – a voice in his head that calls him ‘Bailey’,...

By Preston Wilder A lot of films make a lot of money – especially these days, and especially Disney cartoons – but Frozen in 2013...

By Preston Wilder Happy birthday to Woody Allen, who turned 84 on Sunday – and, for the first time since 1981, didn’t make a film...

By Preston Wilder Roy (Ian McKellen) is a good liar. So, we increasingly suspect, is Betty (Helen Mirren), the woman he’s swindling. So indeed is...

By Preston Wilder I think I speak for everyone when I say we weren’t begging for a new Charlie’s Angels. The first one, the 70s...

By Preston Wilder A change of title always raises questions, especially when it seems unnecessary. What was wrong with Ford v. Ferrari, the name by...

By Preston Wilder Emma Thompson has never played Mary Poppins (Nanny McPhee was the closest she got), but it’s always seemed like a natural fit...

By Preston Wilder This year’s 60th Thessaloniki International Film Festival (which ended on Sunday with the top prize going to Fire Will Come, an often-transcendent...

By Preston Wilder If there’s one thing Stephen King does well, it’s a kind of mad over-abundance; his books are very long and very full,...

By Preston Wilder We waited years for a Japanese film to win the Golden Palm at Cannes then subsequently open in Cyprus cinemas, but it...