Fair play to Octavio is Dead!, in every single narrative beat, with each curious plot twist, it strives for a sincere originality. Singularity is an increasingly rare commodity in cinema, even at the micro-budget end; why risk novelty when you could churn out the same old genre pleasures to audiences seemingly and simply eager for the reassuringly familiar (I know I am - although one of the reasons I loved the new Jurassic Park was the bizarre attempts to revitalise…

When it comes to remakes, they don’t come much more popular than Ocean's Eleven. Steven Soderbergh's 2001 all-star blockbuster caper was a huge hit upon its release; the majority of audiences unaware that the story of cons coming together for One Big Job ™ was originally a Rat Pack vehicle back in the '60s with Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin trading quips and robbing the rich. Such was its success that it spawned two sequels: the bizarrely meta throw-everything-but-the-kitchen-sink-at-the-screen-and-see-what-happens Ocean's…

As early as its customary opening crawl, I began to have a bad feeling about Star Wars: The Last Jedi. In what plays like a dig at the current leader of the free world (who was pictured earlier this year watching Rogue One on Air Force One), the word 'RESISTANCE' appears in upper-case letters, an early worrying sign that real world, outside forces may be intruding on this most endearingly innocent of escapist worlds.

This is nothing new of course…