Film Review

A sign on the wall makes it clear: “APE-POCALYPSE NOW”. War is a form of suspended insanity (just as it was in Apocalypse Now!, Francis Coppola’s Vietnam-set masterpiece) in War…

Something quite shocking happens about two-thirds of the way through Spider-Man: Homecoming: “It’s not working out. I’m gonna need the suit back,” says Tony Stark (aka Iron Man) to impulsive…

A yellow car transforms into a robot. A posh English girl plays polo. Simmons complains that his mojito’s too warm. A knight is entrusted with a magical staff. The staff…

Comedy is hard, both to make and to measure reliably. It doesn’t translate in the way of horror, or big-budget action. Scary is scary, after all, and spectacular is spectacular…

For reasons best known to himself, Bruce Willis has changed his look slightly. He’s been totally bald in recent years but sports a faint nimbus of hair in Once Upon…

Last week, for no obvious reason, the New York Times published a list of the 25 best films of the 21st century so far – and there, inevitably, was a…

I’d quite happily take a cut in my (already modest) salary if I could write about films like The Dinner every week, instead of sequels and superheroes. This is not…

The first version of The Mummy came out in 1932, the most recent (Brendan Fraser in The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor) in 2008. What possible reason could there…

Fans of the late 80s and 90s TV hit series Baywatch should prepare to be sadly disappointed by movie inspired by the show. It is a painful two hours and…

Wonder Woman in her latest form is a truly distinguished new competitor to the male-dominated world of superhero movies. Since her inception in 1941 in DC comic books with her…