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Dating My Mother (US VoD Review) – Kathryn Erbe, Kathy Najimy & a young, gay man

May 8, 2018 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Starring: Patrick Reilly, Kathryn Erbe, Kathy Najimy, James LeGros, Paul Iacono
Director: Mike Roma
Running Time: 81 mins
Certificate: NR
Release Date: Out Now (VoD)

Mike Roma had great success with his web series, Danny The Manny. Now he’s segued into the movies with Dating My Mother, which he both writes and directs. The semi-autobiographical movie follows Danny (Patrick Reilly), who’s finished studying film at college in LA and is now back in small-town New Jersey while he works out what to do next. [Read more…]

Transformers: The Last Knight (Blu-ray Review) – Robots and explosions, what did you expect?

October 21, 2017 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Laura Haddock, Anthony Hopkins, Josh Duhamel
Director: Michael Bay
Running Time: 149 mins
Certificate: 12
Release Date: October 30th 2017 (UK BD/DVD), Out Now (VoD)

People often complain that the big Hollywood movies have no story. If nothing else the Transformers movies have attempted to do something about that. Rather than having no story, they have all the stories, non-stop, simultaneously and accompanied by never-ending explosions. It’s never mattered whether it made any sense or if it’s managed to contradict itself in the same sentence, as long as something is going on that appears to be a plotline.

That continues with The Last Knight, which is moderately more coherent than Dark Of The Moon, and slightly less pointless than Age Of Extinction – and yes, that is damning it with faint praise, but it does mean those who’ve liked what’s gone before, will probably enjoy this one. [Read more…]