Bina007 Movie Reviews

MR BURTON is a handsomely made, restrained, and surprisingly moving film about the creation of iconic actor Richard Burton.  When we meet hi...

Scott Cooper ( CRAZY HEART, HOSTILES ) returns to our screens with a gothic crime story starring Christian Bale as a jaded, grief-stricken d...

THE WONDER is one of the best movies I have seen this year: sublime cinematography and score; a breathtakingly good central performance fro...

I'm not going to waste too much time on this review: I've already lost two hours of my life to this horrendously misjudged and borde...

This film is utterly without merit, joy, wonder or intelligence  It is a shameless cash-in on a tired franchise, without any of the maj...

CHRISTOPHER ROBIN comes to our screens with an impeccable pedigree.  It's director, Marc Forster, has previously explored the inne...

Meester Phil and I walked out of HAPPY END after an hour of tedium and inanity.  Advertising blurb suggesting it's a sharp satire ...

Saul Dibb ( SUITE FRANCAISE, THE DUCHESS ) has directed what is the stand out film of this year's festival to date, an adaptation...

Writer-director-cinematographer Sean Ellis ( CASHBACK ) returns to our screens with a period thriller based on the true story of the assas...

Matteo Garrone hangs a sharp right from quasi-docu-realist Mafia dramas into seventeenth century Italian fantasy horror with his new po...

Feature length versions of successful TV shows, let alone those originally created decades ago, are never entirely necessary.  And many...

I watch straight to video movies because sometimes you find hidden gems that were just too rogue or misfit to get a full theatrical releas...

Sweet tap-dancing Christ, SERENA is so bad people were laughing at the movie at the screening I attended.  In fairness, this final act...

So, I'm in cinema detox for the month before the BFI London Film Festival.  I'll be watching forty films in ten days and reviewing...

There's a lot to love and a lot that doesn't work in this radical new adaptation of the Snow White fairy-tale from debut featu...

HUNGER GAMES plays like a po-faced, de-fanged version of RUNNING MAN and BATTLE ROYALE . In a dystopian American future, the tyranni...

There is a great movie to be made about the conflict between Marilyn Monroe and Sir Lawrence Olivier on the set of THE PRINCE AND THE SH...

I had such a visceral reaction against Tomas Alfredson’s much vaunted new film adaptation of John le Carre’s 1974 novel “Tinker, Tailo...

Once THE WIRE re-up was over, life seemed pretty empty. So empty that I submitted to a Buffy Re-Up , courtesy of two friends of mine w...