When the geniuses at Disney-Pixar have a new film for us to indulge in it’s always a delight, and with Soul, director Pete Docter and his team offer something entirely new, magical and unlike anything we’ve seen from Pixar before. Joe Gardner (Jamie Foxx), a middle school music teacher, has long dreamed of performing jazz […]
SpicyPulp’s Top 10 Films of 2020
2020. What a year. This one surely belongs in the history books, and cinema, I’m afraid, was certain to never to be the same again. We lost a lot this year, and this was certainly true for the art of film and the cinema, with many of this year’s biggest releases pushed off to the […]
‘Mank’ – Review
Master filmmaker David Fincher steps back behind the camera for his first feature film since 2014’s Gone Girl and brings to life the story behind the making of Citizen Kane in Mank. Part bio-pic, part time capsule, Mank is an extraordinarily powerful film that examines the Golden Age of Hollywood through one of the men […]
‘Nomadland’ – Review
What does America’s great last frontier look like? Is it is merely a place, or has it become the person who travels it? These are the questions asked by director Chloé Zhao and actress Frances McDormand in Nomadland, a presentation of cinema that feels like a new development in the art form, and which delivers […]
‘The Croods: A New Age’ – Review
These holidays there’s no better time to visit the cinema for some big-screen family fun, and for those seeking entertainment for all ages, The Croods: A New Age, delivers plenty of enjoyment for the whole family! The Croods have survived their fair share of dangers and disasters, from fanged prehistoric beasts to watching their daughter […]
‘The Mandalorian’ – Season Two – ‘The Rescue’ – Review
It’s all led to this. The final episode of The Mandalorian Season Two is here in ‘Chapter 16: The Rescue’ and director Peyton Reed returns to direct in a show-stopping series finale that finds the Mandalorian,Din Djarin, hunting down Moff Gideon to rescue his son. And this one takes the concept of both Star Wars […]
‘Wonder Woman 1984’ – Review
2020 has been a year for the history books, and it’s been some time since we’ve had the energy, fun and enjoyment of big-screen, blockbuster entertainment. But now Patty Jenkins and her amazing cast including Gal Gadot, Chris Pine, Kristen Wiig and Pedro Pascal are ready to bring the rush of blockbuster entertainment back to […]
‘The Dry’ – Review
Eric Bana has been absent from the big screen for some time, but in The Dry, which is adapted from the best selling book by Jane Harper, Bana makes a solid return to the big screen. And here he delivers am impeccable performance in a solid detective story that reels audiences in with its twisting […]
‘Blithe Spirit’ – Review
Noël Coward’s classic comedy work, Blithe Spirit, finds new life in its ghoulishly funny tale of why tampering with the spirit world isn’t always a great idea, and audiences are in for plenty of light-hearted fun with this one. A spiritualist medium holds a seance for a writer suffering from writer’s block but accidentally summons […]