I saw this at the London Film Festival this year, having loved so much of Baumbach’s work, and it was a major disappointment of the festival for me, working in every cliche possible.“Oh, there’s no need for lawyers, is there?” Only minutes later, cue: the march of the power-dressed lawyers as each side ups the ante…

Crikey, I’ve actually seen some of these! Surprised, given its cultural cachet, that Game of Thrones was so low down, although I’ve never seen an episode and most likely never will. I loved the first series of Kimmy Schmidt, thought the second was a retread of the first, thought the third was mildly better, and have…

I think Sarah McLachlan’s “Posession”, from the point of view of her own stalker, is worth a mention.  The great, underrated musician Peter Hammill, meanwhile, had a song called “Energy Vampires” about obsessive, possessive fans, which included the line “Excuse me while I suck your blood/Excuse me if I phone you/I’ve…

I hated the film, but I thought Tom Cruise was stunning.  As a person, I find him unsettling beyond belief, but with this performance he really did prove that he could act.

God, I hated this film. I wasn’t that sold on “Boogie Nights”, which I saw in the cinema, so watched this on DVD and was just floored by what an indulgent, derivative, plot-hole ridden, po-faced and overacted heap it was. Anderson’s desire to be Robert Altman (with all humour surgically removed) was palpable, but…

Oh, god, they’re not all going to end up fucking peaches, are they? Given the sheer awfulness of “Call Me By Your Name (because I’m a narcissistic douchebag, too)“, the Golding estate should take out a court order against Guadagnino, pronto. 

In recent years, I’ve enjoyed Leigh’s costume dramas far better than his contemporary ones - I consider Vera, Mr Turner and Topsy Turvy to be among his best (and I’m really not a G&S fan at all) not only rich with period detail, but with complex, brilliantly acted characters. Peterloo, however, was almost cartoonish…

I saw this at the London Film Festival and was disappointed at how dull this was -- it looked great, but the pace was relentlessly pedestrian and it sorely lacked any sort of humour.  It was just so, so damned po-faced, and even the 3D section didn’t lift things as I’d hoped -- it just carried on being terribly…

I saw her onstage in “The Girl from the North Country”, the Dylan “jukebox” musical and she had an AWESOME voice, a real belter, which seemed strange coming from such a diminutive figure.  Her take on “Like a Rolling Stone” was spine-chilling.

I still haven’t seen the last series of The Americans but am looking forward to it, despite the fact that, no matter how much you raved about it, the penultimate series was dour and downbeat, with none of the crackling tension of previous series.

As a long-time fan (I remember Patrick Troughton taking over) I was initially excited about a female Doctor, and while I couldn’t imagine Jodie Whittaker in the role, I liked her enough as an actress to have faith.  So far, it’s been a bitter struggle, though, and this episode just continued the disenchantment.  The…

I don’t know why (though this might well have been mentioned) but this reminds me of the 70s Stockard Channing TV film, “The Girl Most Likely”, a very  black comedy (albeit set in a college) about pretty much the same thing.  

I seem to remember seeing the Kiss film on the bottom half of the bill when Spinal Tap first came out.  It wasn’t exactly a palate cleanser, and I was particularly aggrieved to see Anthony Zerbe, one of the great film and TV character actors, mired in this mess. 

I’ve long loved this show and am so glad that it’s now being shown on Amazon, which I can now get, and am catching up with Season Five on there, but I’m really finding this season hard work.  Lugubrious and murky, with mumbled dialogue and dour performances and a colour palette that’s mostly drab green, I’m finding it…

I disagree - we, as an audience, know that the moment that actress turns up and says she’s in the group that something’s up, but I know that it’s wrong for the character to be looking out for this kind of cliche. On the other hand, for a character to be so alive and aware of her mother’s malign influence and to spot…

And don’t forget - a body burnt to a crips apparently emits absolutely no smoke.  Or that house has reeaaalllly good ventilation and no smoke alarms.  Nothing worse than a haunted house that’s not up to code.

Spoilers, but...yeah, in the cinema I saw it there was a wave of laughter when the headless body took the spook lift up to the treehouse.   Also, the son being possessed by what looked like Tinkerbell.

Hereditary was a mess- even the “slow burn” was disrupted time and time again by a family shouting session or a dream sequence, robbing it of any momentum. Every time I thought it was about to get going, they’d switch to a scene from “EastEnders” but with American accents. The last half hour throws every horror trope…

As I said, I usually love her, but found her just waayyyyy over the top in this, as if someone just off-screen was dangling an Oscar from a fishing pole.

I saw this the other night and expected something gripping and really, really scary. Instead, I spent huge swathes of it sighing and thinking, “What is this about? Where are they going with this?” as potentially frightening scenarios (“Ah, NOW we’re getting somewhere!”) digressed into another family therapy session…