In an era where musical biopics arrive with assembly-line regularity, it was only a matter of time before Michael Jackson – arguably the most mythologised pop figure of all – received the full prestige treatment. Backed by his estate and positioned as the definitive cinematic account, Michael has all the makings of something monumental. Instead,…
With The Equalizer 3 promoting itself as “the final chapter” of a movie series I think many of us were surprised made it past the 2014 original, there’s an understandable sense of expectation when it comes to the packaged deal of star Denzel Washington, director Antoine Fuqua and screenwriter Richard Wenk. Whilst the first two…
The 2018 Danish thriller The Guilty was riveting, ruthless material. This American remake, coming courtesy of director Antoine Fuqua (Training Day, The Equalizer), is much of the same, which means those who have seen the original will find the plotting all too familiar, yet those uninitiated are likely to be wholly swept up in its…
