Film Review

Sorry to lead with the money (though it’s probably apt), but let’s just note that the last three films based on DC Comics characters – Batman v. Superman: Dawn of…

The obstetrician pauses, as if broaching a delicate subject: “Have you thought about names?”. The proud grandpa thinks about it, gazing at the newborn septuplets. “Well,” he says, “there are…

Cinema is 120 years old, but I don’t know if there’s ever been a film quite like Home Again. The notion of cougars and toy-boys – i.e. older women romancing…

Here’s the best (by far) of the three Thor movies (so far), a crowd-pleasing action comedy that deserves all the millions it’ll make – yet, at this stage, I can…

Glen in Raising Arizona – a film written by the Coen brothers – told a joke which he claimed was a “way-homer”, meaning you only got it on the way…

I know Groundhog Day is 24 years old now – but does it really need to be explained, as it is at the end of Happy Death Day? (Maybe it’s…

The space station has to be shut down, and only the President of the United States has the ‘kill codes’. Jake Lawson (Gerard Butler) has a cunning plan: the President…

“You live your life in a glass box, with a sign that says ‘Break in case of fire’!” An actor could wait years to deliver a line like that –…

Let’s not beat about the bush: there are a handful of natural markets for The Promise, and Cyprus is one of them. This is a tale of Turks being beastly…

Something’s a little bit off about The Snowman, an adaptation of a novel by bestselling Norwegian crime writer Jo Nesbo. You can sense it in the first minute, when a…