Nicky Branagh

In Review: The Lucky One

by Nicky Branagh 2 May 2012

If there’s one thing we know about a Nicholas Sparks story, it’s what to expect. So predictable is a Sparks narrative that we imagine the author has a checklist that he fills out before penning each novel. Following the commercial success of the romantic weepy writing machine’s previous theatrical adaptations, said list is now typed [...]

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In Review: Salmon Fishing in the Yemen

by Nicky Branagh 20 April 2012

It’s extremely tricky to fish for salmon in Yemen, what with there being a severe lack of water. And salmon. But when a Sheik with more money than sense wants something, he gets it.

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In Review: Marley

by Nicky Branagh 19 April 2012

Kevin MacDonald’s compelling biopic of reggae legend Bob Marley is perhaps as definitive a portrait of the legendary singer as one could hope to view on the silver screen. Opening in Nine Mile, Jamaica, where the star was born, MacDonald begins an incredibly thorough and balanced account of Marley’s fascinating existence

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Slow-Cooked Sequels: Does money never sleep?

by Nicky Branagh 14 September 2011

By Nicky Branagh Have you noticed that delayed sequels have been particularly prevalent at the local multiplexes over the last few years? Long-awaited film follow-ups are nothing particularly new; the 8os saw just such a trend: consider the likes of Psycho II (1983), appearing 23 years after Hitchcock’s classic and Scorcese’s The Color of Money (1986), [...]

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