Archive for March, 2025


A review of the bestselling novel “It Ends With Us” by Colleen Hoover

March 27th, 2025 by Roger Darlington

This novel was published in 2016 and, by the time that I read it almost a decade later, it had sold more than 7 million copies and been made into a film. Ironically, given that the subject of the book is abuse of women by men, the lead actress in the movie, Blake Lively, claimed […]

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A review of the black comedy film “Mickey 17”

March 11th, 2025 by Roger Darlington

In 2020, South Korean director Bong Joo-ho won the Academy Award for Best Picture with his stunning film “Parasite”. Five years later, we have his follow-up work, a picture in the English language based on the 2022 novel “Mickey7” by Edward Ashton. It is technically a sci-fi movie in that it is set in 2054 […]

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A review of the shocking recent film “The Substance”

March 4th, 2025 by Roger Darlington

Girls and women are constantly under pressure to stay young-looking, slim, attractive. Perhaps nowhere is this pressure more insidious than in the entertainment sector. And the pressure really comes on when a woman reaches a certain age. But what if there was a black market drug that enabled a woman to be transformed – at […]

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A review of the award-winning film “Anora”

March 4th, 2025 by Roger Darlington

By the time that I belatedly caught up with this thoroughly enjoyable film, it was only hours away from winning no less than five Academy Awards, a remarkable achievement for a very low budget (only $6M), independent movie competing against the likes of “Dune: Part Two”, “A Complete Unknown” and “Conclave”. Most of those awards […]

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