DISNEY+ FILM REVIEW: PINOCCHIO (PG) ESP RATING: 2/5
When you heard that the Oscar-winning Forrest Gump dream team of director Robert Zemeckis and Hollywood A-lister Tom Hanks were joining...
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Gavin Miller
Apr 11, 20222 min read
FILM REVIEW: MORBIUS (15) ESP RATING: 2/5
With quirky Oscar-winning actor Jared Leto (Dallas Buyers Club) getting his teeth into this Sony Spider-Man Universe anti-hero – it was...
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Jan 28, 20222 min read
FILM REVIEW: NIGHTMARE ALLEY (15) ESP RATING: 4/5
Oscar-winning director Guillermo Del Toro’s (The Shape of Water) stylish thriller is a throwback to the days of Alfred Hitchcock. I left...
Gavin Miller
Jan 12, 20221 min read
NETFLIX FILM REVIEW: THE POWER OF THE DOG (12A) ESP RATING: 4/5
Jane Campion’s first film in a dozen years has just mopped up some of the major awards at this week’s Golden Globes – and it’s not hard...
Gavin Miller
Dec 9, 20213 min read
FILM REVIEW: RESIDENT EVIL – WELCOME TO RACCOON CITY (15) ESP RATING: 1/5
Is it that difficult to get a Resident Evil film right? With the eerie source material from the iconic Capcom video game franchise oozing...
Gavin Miller
Dec 2, 20212 min read
FILM REVIEW: ENCANTO (PG) ESP RATING: 3/5
With the quality of the Disney Animation Studios product now matching – or in certain cases even bettering – that of sister studio Pixar,...
Gavin Miller
Nov 29, 20212 min read
FILM REVIEW: GHOSTBUSTERS – AFTERLIFE (12A) ESP RATING: 3/5
This ‘love letter’ from director Jason Reitman to the Ghostbusters universe – and particularly the late Harold ‘Egon Spengler’ Ramis –...
Gavin Miller
Nov 29, 20211 min read
NETFLIX FILM REVIEW: RED NOTICE (12A) ESP RATING: 2.5/5
Dwayne Johnson and Ryan Reynolds team up to take a big fat ‘paycheck’ from Netflix – and uninspiringly provide a formulaic action heist...
Gavin Miller
Nov 15, 20212 min read
FILM REVIEW: ETERNALS (12A) ESP RATING: 3/5
Early reviews pegged this as the worst-reviewed Marvel Cinematic Universe movie so far (since it started in 2008) – and the first one to...
Gavin Miller
Nov 12, 20212 min read
NETFLIX FILM REVIEW: THE HARDER THEY FALL (15) ESP RATING: 4/5
British music producer Jeymes Samuel makes an impressive start to his (first major movie) filmmaking career with this western that has...
Gavin Miller
Nov 6, 20213 min read
FILM REVIEW: DUNE (12A) ESP RATING: 4.5/5
If the person tasked with formulating a new Star Wars universe for this generation did as spectacular a job as Denis Villeneuve does here...
ESP Online
Oct 23, 20212 min read
FILM REVIEW: VENOM – LET THERE BE CARNAGE (15) ESP RATING: 3.5/5
This follow-up to 2018’s critically-divisive Venom is stereotypical superhero fare – but it’s thoroughly entertaining. Let There Be...
Gavin Miller
Sep 10, 20212 min read
FILM REVIEW: SHANG-CHI & THE LEGEND OF THE TEN RINGS (12A) ESP RATING: 3.5/5
He may not have exactly been a superhero name that ‘rolled off the tongue’ prior to his Marvel Cinematic Universe bow – but after this...
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