Film Review

It’s a good week for true stories, meaning it’s a good week for spoilers; this review will assume you’re already familiar with what happened to the Russian submarine ‘Kursk’ in…

Robin Hood, yes – but for now. For today. It’s 2018, we don’t want men in tights. Well OK, we support men in tights, we’re all non-binary here, but not…

Adonis Johnson (Michael B. Jordan) is about to fight his toughest opponent ever: franchise fatigue. To be honest, I’d be happier if Creed II didn’t exist, just because the original…

Something quite exciting is happening this weekend: for the first time since the week of July 15, Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation isn’t showing at a local cinema. That a…

Lynda LaPlante wrote the original Widows, a five-hour mini-series for British TV – and that sprawling source material is the obvious Achilles’ heel in this big-screen version, with the setting…

Did I make the right choice? Last week’s little detour to the Thessaloniki Film Festival left a bunch of films un-reviewed, actually a choice between three contenders. The Grinch is…

Grindelwald is played by Johnny Depp, with deathly-pale skin and bleached hair – though his crimes aren’t especially evident in this second instalment of J.K. Rowling’s Fantastic Beasts franchise. We…

Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Did a band disagreement that was threatening to become physical really get defused, circa 1979, by John Deacon playing the bass…

I don’t usually advise people where to sit in the cinema (it’s not really part of my job description), but when it comes to Mandy I can offer a hot…

Karen (Judy Greer) has had it up to here with her mother’s fear and paranoia. “The world is not a dark and evil place!” she chides. “It’s full of love…