Author: Jo Stubbings

★★★½ There’s a scene in Marta Díaz de Lope Díaz’s Another League which would be hilarious were it not so cringeworthy. A class of teenage girls receives a visit from a well-coiffed speaker, looking a lot like Margaret Thatcher. She represents the bizarrely named “Women’s Section” of the Spanish government.…

★★★★☆ There was a cinematic trend in the eighties and nineties where it was near impossible to kill off the villain. In Cape Fear, Sleeping with the Enemy and Fatal Attraction, the enemy simply refused to die easily – or sometimes appeared to die twice. Echoes of the syndrome appear…

★★★☆☆ Power Ballad sees intellectual property theft that will make your head explode and your belly jiggle. Cat burglaries and heists are always great fodder for the crime thriller. We cheered on Sean Connery when he had to straddle laser beams to reach treasure in Entrapment, and again with Michael…