Film Review

The Lego Ninjago Movie is the underwhelming latest installment of the Lego film franchise produced by the Warner Animation group and it is, at best, mediocre. Following the huge success…

Blade Runner 2049, the first sequel to the iconic cult classic and science fiction game changer Blade Runner, opens to big expectations are running amok. With sci-fi enthusiasts having waited…

Who’d be an American assassin? Mitch Rapp would, and I bet you would too. You get to see the world, after all: Istanbul, Rome, a CIA safe house in Romania.…

Mimi works at a bookshop called ‘The Pale Fire’, named after the John Shade poem in the novel by Nabokov; her boyfriend’s in a band called Fahrenheit 185, named after…

What will be the first Trump-era movie with a Trump-like US president? We have a winner! Kudos to Kingsman: The Golden Circle for coming up, a mere eight months after…

A Muslim taken into the confidence of the Queen of England, viewing Parliamentary papers, reading the Koran to her and putting ideas into her head? “What’s the Archbishop of Canterbury…

We are not an American newspaper. That’s not usually relevant when discussing American movies, but it’s very relevant in the case of Detroit, which – despite being set in 1967,…

Clara Bow was the ‘It Girl’ in the late 1920s, but we’re not talking flappers with sex appeal here. Stephen King’s It – from the horror maestro’s bestseller, already turned…

Jimmy Logan (Channing Tatum) isn’t actually lucky. None of his family are, you might even say they’ve been cursed. The Logan family history is a litany of unfortunate accidents, fatally…

I wish I could be totally positive about Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, one of the year’s biggest flops and a film, I suspect, that many people…