Review
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Ewan McGregor and Naomie Harris cross paths with Stellan Skarsgård’s shady Russian oligarch in this post-Cold War spy thriller adapted from the novel by John le Carré. Read More
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Mandy Moore and Claire Holt find themselves at the bottom of the Mexican ocean surrounded by great white sharks in this simple yet effective thriller. Read More
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Luc Besson unveils his hugely personal and expensive sci-fi extravaganza, centring on a pair of romantically involved space agents searching for an endangered creature. But is it any good? Read More
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Scarlett Johansson and Kate McKinnon head up this all-girl spin on The Hangover, or more closely Peter Berg’s Very Bad Things. But can the red hot cast convert some of… Read More
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Following the success of Wonder Woman, Lucy and Rogue One , Hollywood finally seems willing to support action movies fronted by female stars. Atomic Blonde casts Charlize Theron – who… Read More
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Taiwanese writer-director Giddens Ko Ching-teng follows up his smash-hit debut You Are the Apple of My Eye (2011) with a considerably darker beast. While his second directing effort also takes… Read More
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Christopher Nolan’s stirring World War II epic is a nerve-racking, experiential odyssey that rewrites the language of cinema in its use of overlapping time frames and sensory storytelling. Read More
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Gemma Arterton and Bill Nighy are the highlights of this wonderfully realised tale of Britain during the Blitz, and the Ministry of Information’s efforts to make propaganda films with a… Read More
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Tom Holland gets his own stand-alone Spidey movie as Marvel finally brings their young web-slinging hero into the MCU, under the watchful eye of Tony Stark. Read More
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Andy Serkis showcases his exceptional performance capture skills once again in the powerful third chapter of the rebooted franchise. Read More
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Brian Cox and Miranda Richardson star in this modest dramatisation of the days leading up to D-Day. (at 16:00) Listen to my review Read More
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Bong Joon-ho’s controversial Netflix feature is a scathing takedown of GM foods and corporate greed built around the touching story of a young girl’s relationship with an experimental super-pig. (at… Read More
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Reformed supervillain Gru (voiced by Steve Carell) returns to a life of crime, while the minions go in search of a new employer, in the latest instalment of the ever-expanding… Read More
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Mark Wahlberg is joined by Sir Anthony Hopkins in the fifth installment of Michael Bay’s blockbuster behemoth about intergalactic robots blowing stuff up real good. (at 18:30) Read More
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Adapted from David Harrower’s acclaimed stage play Blackbird, Una broaches the volatile subjects of paedophilia and the reintegration of sex offenders in compelling fashion, thanks in large part to excellent… Read More
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After making waves with 2012’s Confession of Murder, writer-director Jung Byung-gil’s follow-up delivers some of the most kinetic action sequences ever witnessed in a South Korean film. Read my review Read More
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A ruthless headhunter must choose between his career and his family in the directorial debut from veteran producer Mark Williams. Read my review Read More
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Michael Shannon and Kevin Spacey recreate the iconic, though admittedly bizarre, encounter between The King and The President. Read More
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