Film Reviews by DH

This turned out OK, bearing in mind all the issues with directors being fired during filming etc. My only criticism being that Alden Ehrenreich is totally miscast as Hans Solo - not only is he noticeably too short, but also too nice. I guess you could get away with Solo becoming grumpier as he got older, but he sure as hell wouldn't have grown 5 inches or so,

Interesting insight into this maverick, gifted guitar player, with plenty of insight from contemporaries such as Jimmy Page and Eric Clapton. A straight no frills documentary, but none the worse for that.

Surprised that general reviews have been positive, while I laughed my socks off at the first one ,this one left me cold. It just wasn't very funny. Agree with earlier reviewers on here, not recommended.

Have to agree with the earlier reviewer - I chose this on the strength of the cast, all of who were wasted on this low budget boreathon.

One of those films where the director is obviously trying to be clever by not making it immediately clear what is going on.In fact he was so successful that after 20 minutes, not only did I not know what the hell was going on, I cared even less. So I promptly switched it off to avoid wasting a further minute of my time watching this moronic garbage.

I would strongly recommend that you don't even bother.

Perhaps I was in an impatient mood, but I couldn't get past the first 10 minutes before calling time on this. Dodgy accents, wooden acting, slow, boring.

Good old fashioned action entertainment which doesn't degenerate into either a CGI fest or a moralising lecture. Recommended, Cruise back to his best.

Couldn't disagree with the official critic more, who obviously has no understanding of the Star Wars legacy. Worse than that though, neither did the writer/director. Luke Skywalker was almost unrecognisable as a character, and I don't mean physically - although they might as well have used a different actor and saved themselves a few quid, it wouldn't have been any worse. Sure he had to be allowed to age and also evolve as we all do, but this bloke had nothing in common with the Luke Skywalker of the original films.

After that, nothing else about the film seems to matter much. C3P0 and R2D2 continued to be relegated to token cameo roles, may as well not have bothered. Of the new actors, Finn, Rey and Kylo Ren all had less convincing performances than in the last film. While I was really looking forward to this film. I am dreading the next one.

I deliberately don't read reviews before watching a film as I want to approach it with an open mind and not have any preconceived ideas. However, on this occasion I really wish I had to be honest. To say this film is slow is an insult to snails.

Now having read these reviews, I am aware that the pie eating scene is infamous for it's dullness, and I can fully understand why- it was struggling through this momentous non event that led me to give up at this point in the film, I could take no more. I am however pleased to note that it appears I have missed nothing by terminating it at this point.

If you like pretentious cobblers then you will love this, if you are normal you will hate it.

Far from a Good Time to be had watching this B movie mess. I didn't even have this on my list, CP very kindly sent it to me, perhaps they thought the disc was getting a bit lonely. Either way I certainly didn't list it, and watching it proved my judgement correct.

Series one and two were pretty cartoon like with corney plots and a noticeable low budget. Series three and four however improved noticeably, with better writing and direction.It even has some handheld camera action, which was very rare on TV at the time. For it's time, it was remarkably progressive, touching on subjects such as hidden homosexuality and white cops shooting young black kids, although no doubt today's snowflakes would consider it very sexist. Some surprising guests as well including Danny De Vito, Kim Caterall, Joan Collins and Phillip Michael Thomas.

I think they also called time on the series at exactly the right time, having taken it as far as they could. An iconic 70's series that could be improved by a thorough clean up and re master (Sony!) and a release on Blu Ray. Interestingly, the final episode was of noticeably higher technical quality, with a much sharper, less grainy transfer, but I have no idea why that is.I understand there was talk of a reboot last year, I hope that has not come to anything as it would be pointless. A 2018 Starsky & Hutch would probably demand that Starsky is black and Hutch is gay, burning up the streets on pedal cycles and Huggy Bear would be a transgender activist. No thanks.

Firstly, an excellent quality Blu Ray transfer - pin sharp natural looking picture. The film is very watchable, and revolves around a town that is very much of the "You can checkout any time you like, but you can never leave" variety. While it's a "Western", don't let that put you off if a you are not a fan of the genre as it's far from typical western fayre.

I really liked the first film, it was very watchable and good harmless entertainment. This though, is just a sequel for the sake if it, a parody of the original. A silly plot, masses of cartoon like violence and a pointless GGI fest. Don't even mention the Elton John bits which consist of him mainly shouting "f***" very loudly for no apparent reason.

Because "Eggsy" has a much larger part, his irritating Jafaican accent gets very wearing, while Keith Allen was in it for all of 3 minutes - why? What was the point? Halle Berry was also curiously mis cast, although it looks like she is being set up for Kingsman 3. Me, I'll be giving it a miss on this evidence.

A quality film, cast, and Blu Ray transfer (stunning quality). A long film, but never boring. This type of film would not be made nowadays, but it is not all pretentious.

Following some pretty positive reviews from critics, I was looking forward to Dunkirk but found it wanting to be honest. The scenes of soldiers forming orderly queues on the beach, with only one Stuka attack shown struck me as curiously unrealistic, I am sure it was a much more bloody and chaotic scene than was portrayed, perhaps closer to the opening scenes of Saving Private Ryan.

As it was, Dunkirk seemed curiously free of Germans. The was also a distinct overall lack of scale in the number of boats, almost like they were trying to conceal a low budget. Not very coherent in the story telling either. It was OK, but far from the blockbuster classic that has been trailed.