Cinema and Film

This column will review films both screening theatrically and/or on various streaming platforms. NEW The Creator (15) While this may tap into current concerns about artificial intelligence,… Read more »

This column will review films both screening theatrically and/or on various streaming platforms. NEW Dumb Money (15) If you think shorting has something to with an electrical… Read more »

This column will review films both screening theatrically and/or on various streaming platforms. NEW A Haunting In Venice (12A) Very loosely based on Hallowe’en Party, a lesser… Read more »

This column will review films both screening theatrically and/or on various streaming platforms. NEW Past Lives (12A) Unfolding over 24 years, in two 12-year intervals, played out… Read more »

This column will review films both screening theatrically and/or on various streaming platforms. NEW The Equalizer 3 (15) Billed as the final in the series about former… Read more »

This column will review films both screening theatrically and/or on various streaming platforms. NEW The Blackening (15) Taking its cue from both the self-aware send ups of… Read more »

This column will review films both screening theatrically and/or on various streaming platforms. Blue Beetle (12A) Although the character first appeared in 1939 and went through various… Read more »

This column will review films both screening theatrically and/or on various streaming platforms. NEW Gran Turismo: Based On A True Story (12A) Masterminded by Kazunori Yamauchi, launched… Read more »

This column will review films both screening theatrically and/or on various streaming platforms. NEW Joy Ride (15) Making her directorial debut, working from a script by Cherry… Read more »

Last night, Secret Cinema welcomed VIPs and talent such as Jamelia, Joey Essex, AJ andCurtis Pritchard, Liberty Poole and Tink Reading, who joined thousands of fans at Birmingham’s NEC as Rydell High was brought to life with… Read more »

This column will review films both screening theatrically and/or on various streaming platforms. NEW Teenage Ninja Mutant Turtles – Mutant Mayhem (PG) Created as a comic book… Read more »

This column will review films both screening theatrically and/or on various streaming platforms. NEW Oppenheimer (12A) Adapted from the 2005 biography American Prometheus, writer-director Christopher Nolan delivers… Read more »

This column will review films both screening theatrically and/or on various streaming platforms. NEW Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One (12A) Tom Cruise saved last year’s… Read more »

This column will review films both screening theatrically and/or on various streaming platforms. NEW Elemental (PG) While undeniably visually dazzling, the latest from Pixar Fire recycles some… Read more »

This column will review films both screening theatrically and/or on various streaming platforms. NEW Indiana Jones And The Dial Of Destiny (12A) He may be 80, but,… Read more »

The Electric cinema is the only cinema in Birmingham to offer 35mm screenings and regularly screens classic films in the format, so to be able to screen Christopher Nolan’s… Read more »

The live music experience is extending their £45 ticket offer to celebrate Grease’s 45th Anniversary  Secret Cinema, the global pioneer of immersive storytelling, are heading to Birmingham… Read more »

This column will review films both screening theatrically and/or on various streaming platforms. NEW Asteroid City (12A) Shot in widescreen washed out pastel colours, drenched in retro… Read more »

This column will review films both screening theatrically and/or on various streaming platforms. NEW The Flash (12A) Yet another delve into the multiverse, talked up as the… Read more »

This column will review films both screening theatrically and/or on various streaming platforms. NEW Transformers: Rise Of The Beasts (12A) Although the Hasbro toys date back to… Read more »

This column will review films both screening theatrically and/or on various streaming platforms. NEW Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse (PG) Five years ago, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse introduced… Read more »

This column will review films both screening theatrically and/or on various streaming platforms. NEW The Little Mermaid (PG) The 1989 original having revitalised Disney’s animation, directed by… Read more »

This column will review films both screening theatrically and/or on various streaming platforms. NEW Fast X (12A) Opening with a flashback to 2011’s Fast Five and the… Read more »

This column will review films both screening theatrically and/or on various streaming platforms. NEW Love Again (12A) Mira (Priyanka Chopra Jonas) is a children’s book illustrator about… Read more »

This column will review films both screening theatrically and/or on various streaming platforms. NEW Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol 3 (12A) While the two mid-credit scenes suggest… Read more »

This column will review films both screening theatrically and/or on various streaming platforms. The Three Musketeers Pt 1: D’Artagnan (15) Written in 1844 by Alexandre Dumas, there’s… Read more »

This column will review films both screening theatrically and/or on various streaming platforms. NEW Renfield (15) Renfield, as any self-respecting Bram Stoker devotee knows, was Dracula’s bug-eating… Read more »

This column will review films both screening theatrically and/or on various streaming platforms. NEW Air (15) An underdog sports movie with a difference in that here the… Read more »

This column will review films both screening theatrically and/or on various streaming platforms. NEW Dungeons & Dragons: Honour Among Thieves (12A) It’s been 23 years since the… Read more »

This column will review films both screening theatrically and/or on various streaming platforms. NEW John Wick : Chapter 4 (15) Spin-offs and prequel appearances notwithstanding, the emotional… Read more »

This column will review films both screening theatrically and/or on various streaming platforms. NEW Shazam! Fury Of The Gods (12A) Making the familiar mistake of assuming sequels… Read more »

This column will review films both screening theatrically and/or on various streaming platforms. NEW Scream VI (15) Having survived last year’s carnage, Sam Carpenter (Melissa Barrera), the… Read more »

This column will review films both screening theatrically and/or on various streaming platforms. NEW Creed III (15) As well as reprising the title character, Michael B. Jordan… Read more »

This column will review films both screening theatrically and/or on various streaming platforms. NEW What’s Love Got To Do With It? (12A) That it shares its title… Read more »

This column will review films both screening theatrically and/or on various streaming platforms. NEW Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (12A) Calling to mind thoughts of Fantastic Voyage… Read more »

This column will review films both screening theatrically and/or on various streaming platforms. NEW Magic Mike’s Last Dance (15) Having given up life as a stripper and… Read more »

This column will review films both screening theatrically and/or on various streaming platforms. NEW The Whale (15) Misguidedly criticised for supposedly portraying obesity as disgusting and monstrous,… Read more »

This column will review films both screening theatrically and/or on various streaming platforms. NEW The Fabelmans (12A) Paradoxically earning Oscar nominations for Best Film and Best Director… Read more »