Film Review

Avatar: The Way of Water has smashed box office records becoming the fourth highest-grossing movie of all time. The 2022 American epic science fiction film produced and directed by James…

X-Men and The Favourite actor Nicholas Hoult plays the title role JRR Tolkien’s fantastical world of hobbits, elves and orcs have won over fans around the world in the decades…

If war is the continuation of diplomacy by other means, then Avengers: Endgame is the continuation of Comic Con – which took place last weekend – by other means. It’s…

Another week, another film for non-Anglophones – but it’s not like you have to watch Mektoub, My Love in its brief, Greek-subtitled window at the multiplex (it screens till Tuesday,…

When it comes to Mug, the ‘what?’ is less important than the ‘why?’ – not why the film exists but why it’s being shown here, at the multiplex no less.…

Hellboy (David Harbour) is red, “like a baboon’s arse” – or more pertinently blood-red, this new reboot of the comic-book character (set in Britain, and directed by a Brit) featuring…

A sign on the wall reads ‘Choose to be a forever home’. The camera lingers on the sign, and indeed why shouldn’t it? The sign – on the wall of…

We open with Vincent (Jesse Eisenberg) trying to fast-talk an investor, which is something Vincent (and Jesse Eisenberg) does well. Vincent needs money – lots of money – to build…

It’s an astonishing week at the Cyprus multiplex; I’ve never seen anything like it. All three new releases – Us, Dragged Across Concrete and Vox Lux – are bizarre, ambitious,…

I assume ‘Us’ also means ‘US’, though not in the highly specific way of Jordan Peele’s Oscar-winning debut Get Out. “Who are you people?” the monsters are asked at one…