Film Review

When the MCU (Marvel Cinematic Universe) films become so innumerable that quick tags are needed to tell them apart, Captain Marvel will be ‘The one with the cat’ – a…

S&M is known as ‘the English vice’, but it seems the occasional Greek can also partake. 18th-century England is indeed the setting for The Favourite, but the presiding spirit is…

It appears to be an open secret at the Oscars, judging by the anonymous interviews that get published every year, that not all voters actually watch all the nominated movies.…

Any number of self-righteous people, from Spike “ref made a bad call” Lee to the edgier type of film critic, are treating Green Book’s Best Picture Oscar win with a…

It’s a good week for films which we have no business reviewing, as an English-language paper; still, language isn’t everything. Non-Greek-speaking kids will obviously struggle with The Queen’s Corgi (which…

There’s terrifying, and then there’s just tasteless. It’s a fine line, especially if we’re talking evil-child movies. 46 years ago, The Exorcist was touted (with some reason) as the scariest…

Lightning strikes twice in Happy Death Day 2U, a freewheeling sequel that’s mad fun – if perhaps a bit too scattershot – from beginning to end. The original (from 2017)…

The eyes have it. Alita (Rosa Salazar, with some CGI enhancement) has remarkably large brown eyes, giving her the air of an earnest child. She falls in love like a…

It’s exactly five years – 1825 days – since the release of The Lego Movie in February 2014, and it wouldn’t surprise me to learn that Phil Lord and Christopher…

Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in! It’s your own fault, Liam Neeson, you swore you wouldn’t play any more action heroes yet here you…