Film Review

Disney have a lot to answer for. It was Mary Poppins, I believe (I can’t think offhand of an earlier example), that launched the convention of the stuffy workaholic dad…

First came The Conjuring, then Annabelle and its sequel – and now comes The Nun, the link in all cases being Ed and Lorraine Warren, the husband-and-wife ghost hunters who…

The IMF stands for Impossible Missions Force (not International Monetary Fund, as I never tire of pointing out), and Mission: Impossible – Fallout, the sixth film in the franchise, comes…

Mark Wahlberg puts it best, in the indigestible Mile 22: “Welcome to the new wars”. A rancid blend of grisly heroics and ugly-Americanisms, this sub-Bourne actioner has a certain superficial…

Right at the end of The Meg – a film about a giant sea monster – survivors are on deck exchanging the usual end-of-movie platitudes and the camera pans away,…

“What do we do now?” asks one survivor of another at the end of The First Purge. “Now… we fight!” replies her friend, underlining even further – if it needed…

Looks like action-movie overload, with Skyscraper and Escape Plan 2: Hades leading this week’s new releases – though in fact there’s a difference. Skyscraper is a mega-budget, big-studio behemoth, hitting…

Flann O’Brien, alias Myles na Gopaleen, wrote a column called ‘The Plain People of Ireland’ back in the day, including a gag where one plain person of Ireland was singing…

I didn’t even know who The Wasp was; I thought it was the villain. Only as the minutes ticked by and no nefarious figure called Wasp emerged from the shadows,…

Say you’re Drew Pearce, a 40-something Hollywood insider. You’re known as a writer, having co-scripted Iron Man 3 – but you want to direct, so you whip up a suitable…