Author: Unsalted Popcorn

Sometimes, it’s the smallest of things that attract you to a movie. Take Florence Foster Jenkins – not something I’d have rushed to watch until I saw the

Sometimes, you hear about a planned remake of a much-loved classic and you just die a little inside – surely someone, somewhere has an original idea worth making?

So, what were you hoping from here then? More action? Bigger bangs? Bit of the ol’ Spidey? Or were you expecting something more akin to The Winter Soldier,

The great thing about the Odeon’s Screen Unseen events is that you get to play a guessing game – they post clues online, and we the film fans

Sometimes, there really is no point reviewing a film – people will flock to see it regardless what the critics think, and will only react if a review

I really wasn’t going to bother with Kung Fu Panda 3 – having not seen the second instalment I felt sure I’d be missing huge gaps in the

The great thing about a new Coen brothers film is that you never quite know what you’re going to get. Even if it’s billed as a comedy, life

There were two things I was really looking forward to about In The Heart Of The Sea – it being released on Boxing Day and it being directed

I’m seriously beginning to wonder why they bother with trailers. Take Bridge Of Spies for example, a film I was expecting to be a tense Cold War thriller.

I used to love – and in fact still do – Snoopy and Charlie Brown. I grew up with the newspaper strips, I got the books for Christmas

First there was fear – fear that the distant, loving memory of a trilogy many of us grew up with would be further tarnished. Then there was hope

These days, Johnny Depp is the acting equivalent of U2 – people either love him or hate him, and his latest work (when it’s not a Pirates film)

We all know why this film exists. It’s not for the fans, it’s not because there was so much book to pack in it needed two films –

It’s been a funny old time for James Bond – he of the gadgets and the cars and the girls and the product placements. First, he came back

Remember us? Yeah, we used to write film reviews. Then we decided moving would be a good idea and it all went to hell. So, finally, we’ve found