Gore Verbinski’s latest film is about swaggering young finance executive Lockhart (Dane Dehaan) who is sent by his superiors to an elite health clinic in the Swiss… Read more “Plain, Simple Tom reviews . . . “A Cure for Wellness” (2016)”
Month: February 2017
Announcing The Great Villain Blogathon 2017!
Originally posted on Speakeasy :
Time once again to face the evil with the annual Big Bad Blogathon celebrating cinema’s worst villains. Just pick a favourite movie villain,…
Ultimate 90s Blogathon – “Total Recall” (1990)
First blogathon submission of the year! Find it HERE! Blogathon hosted by Tranquil Dreams and Drew’s Movie Reviews
First, Second and Third Mystery Blogger Awards!
Huzzah, I’ve been given three mystery blogger awards, courtesy of Film and TV 101, The Film Blog and Keith Loves Movies. Thank y’all for the nominations and everyone else: check out… Read more “First, Second and Third Mystery Blogger Awards!”
Plain, Simple Tom reviews . . . “Fences” (2016)
Denzel Washington directs this adaptation of August Wilson’s stage play and also stars as Troy Maxon, a Pittsburgh refuse collector who lives with his wife Rose (Viola… Read more “Plain, Simple Tom reviews . . . “Fences” (2016)”
Plain, Simple Tom reviews . . . “Harold and Maude” (1971)
Young Harold (Bud Cort) lives a lonely, empty life with his aloof, distant, middle class mother, who takes it upon herself to marry him off to an… Read more “Plain, Simple Tom reviews . . . “Harold and Maude” (1971)”
Plain, Simple Tom reviews . . . “The LEGO Batman Movie ” (2017)
Having logged a far too generous amount of hours playing the Lego Batman videogames and thinking that The Lego Movie was pretty neat, it’s no wonder that The Lego… Read more “Plain, Simple Tom reviews . . . “The LEGO Batman Movie ” (2017)”
Plain, Simple Tom reviews . . . “The Space Between Us” (2017)
Gardner Elliot (Asa Butterfield) is the first child born on Mars and for the first sixteen years of his life, he is brought up in a NASA… Read more “Plain, Simple Tom reviews . . . “The Space Between Us” (2017)”
Plain, Simple Tom reviews . . . “Spotlight” (2015)
This evening I finally got round to watching Tom McCarthy’s Best Picture winner about the spotlight team at the Boston Globe, whose investigative journalism uncovered a major… Read more “Plain, Simple Tom reviews . . . “Spotlight” (2015)”