This dramatised bio-pic about the WW2 assassination of Reinhard Heydrich is based on a novel entitled ‘HHhH’ – ‘Himmler’s brain is named Heydrich.’ Quite clever, but perhaps too subtle for a mainstream movie audience. There’s another film about the same subject – Anthropoid – which majors on the Czech soldiers and their undercover mission. ‘The…
The movie houses may be opening but there’s not a lot to watch on the big screen just yet. Must be time for more sofa-cinema then! Here are more suggestions for films you’ll find on various streaming services: the good, the ghastly and the why did we watch that again? A few of these are…
There’s a treasure trove of crime and thriller films lurking online – often buried in the backlists on the big streaming services. We found half a dozen A-list actors running the gauntlet in four unusually offbeat flicks, taking inspiration from across the crime genre. So read on for Anthony Hopkins, Nicole Kidman (channelling Robert de…
You might believe that Joker was the first big-bucks movie to focus on a supervillain. Not so. M Night Shyamalan got there before, with Split in 2019 starring James McAvoy. But Split, we soon learned, wasn’t actually a standalone story – instead it was a sequel to one of Shyamalan’s much earlier films which starred…
From Nordic noir to Icelandic angst, big-bucks blockbusters to low-budget B-movies – here’s six flicks you might find flickering across your screen sometime soon. We steer you towards the ones to seek out, and suggest a couple which you might want to swerve around… 88 Billed as a cross between Memento and Kill Bill,…
If you’re looking for some seriously hardboiled pulp fiction or a classic gangland thriller to add to your watchlist, here’s MMM’s suggestions for six of the best – including famous films you might’ve forgotten or mysterious movies you never even knew existed… SIN CITY Classic. Original. Stunning. Much darkness and awesome over-acting and … well……
This sombre, typically Scandinavian drama explores the reality of modern conflict from an intensely personal perspective. It starts as a ‘war is hell’ movie and ends as a courtroom drama, debating the moral dimension of military action. The protagonist is forced to make a choice in the heat of battle, and must then accept responsibility…
This is a minuscule plot, presented in a stylish cinema noir wrapper and packed with Gallic panache. It features powerful performances from the two male leads, as it explores their relationship and the consequences of the catastrophic event which saw one of them drummed out of the police force and imprisoned for causing deaths while…
We enjoy all sorts of thrillers here at MMM, from non-stop action romps to inexplicable international arthouse adventures, from popcorn puff to self-indulgent intellectualism.* Recently we’ve seen three wonderfully weird examples of world cinema, each of which revolves around a captivating female central character. Each of them is a solid four-star flick, worthy of…
Cleverly constructed Nordic noir which in typical Scandinavian style combines a convoluted plot with credible but complicated characters, filmed with an eye for widescreen. The series follows a single investigation, triggered by the death of a police informant. Each of the six hour-long episodes peels back more layers of the story, expanding its focus from…
