Film Review

It says Chuck on our cinema schedules, but The Bleeder is the title on the print I watched; even when it comes to the minuscule Cyprus market, poor Chuck Wepner…

Father to young son: “You have to stop acting like a–”. Son, defiant: “A pirate? I won’t stop!” Pirates of the Caribbean keeps going too, the franchise that appeared to…

It was all so simple in the days of the first Alien: human vs. non-human, human good, non-human bad. Fear and emotion vs. big scary teeth and a bad attitude.…

King Arfur? Diamond geezer, knew him back in the ol’ days, down in Sarf Londinium. That were before he were king, of course – just a spiv an’ a chancer,…

Is Hollywood closing down? (Not that we care, we’re just asking.) Here’s a second straight week with just one new release at the multiplex – so instead we turn to…

Nothing this year is likely to top the opening credits of Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2, in which the titular space mercenaries battle a giant squid-monster – but that’s…

It gives no pleasure to slam The Assignment. It’s a shame that the film is a dud, for two reasons. The first is because it’s directed by 76-year-old Walter Hill,…

What can we say about the Blitz, the air-raid campaign carried out on London by the Nazis in 1940-41? One thing we could say is that it happened almost 80…

What can we say about the Blitz, the air-raid campaign carried out on London by the Nazis in 1940-41? One thing we could say is that it happened almost 80…

What is the Devil’s candy? Underage victims, apparently. “I have to feed him children, because children are his candy,” says Ray (Pruitt Taylor Vince), the corpulent villain of this garishly…