Cinema and Film

This column will review films both screening theatrically and/or on various streaming platforms. NEW Boy Kills World (18) Rivalling Monkey Man for its copious bloodbaths and ultra-violence… Read more »

This column will review films both screening theatrically and/or on various streaming platforms. NEW Abigail (18) Initially, it seems like your standard kidnap movie. A bunch of… Read more »

This column will review films both screening theatrically and/or on various streaming platforms. NEW Civil War (15) There’s no backstory as to why or how, but, unlikely… Read more »

This column will review films both screening theatrically and/or on various streaming platforms. NEW Monkey Man (18) Looking to buy a gun from an arms dealer, Dev… Read more »

This column will review films both screening theatrically and/or on various streaming platforms. NEW Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (12A) Having battled each other in Godzilla… Read more »

This column will review films both screening theatrically and/or on various streaming platforms. NEW The Persian Version (15) Shaping up to be this year’s Past Lives, but… Read more »

This column will review films both screening theatrically and/or on various streaming platforms. NEW Drive-Away Dolls (15) Collaborating with wife and editor Tricia Cooke, this is Ethan… Read more »

This column will review films both screening theatrically and/or on various streaming platforms. NEW Imaginary (15) Jeff Wadlow directed the execrable Fantasy Island and he fares no… Read more »

This column will review films both screening theatrically and/or on various streaming platforms. NEW Dune: Part Two (12A) Given there’s no previously on styled catch up, you’ll… Read more »

This column will review films both screening theatrically and/or on various streaming platforms. NEW Wicked Little Letters (15) Rivalling The Great as the sweariest period dramady ever,… Read more »

This column will review films both screening theatrically and/or on various streaming platforms. NEW Bob Marley: One Love (12A) In charting the rise to international stardom –… Read more »

This column will review films both screening theatrically and/or on various streaming platforms. NEW The Iron Claw (15) The title referring to their trademark pressure grip, written… Read more »

This column will review films both screening theatrically and/or on various streaming platforms. NEW Argylle (12A) Ignore the savage reviews, the latest screwball spy caper from Matthew… Read more »

This column will review films both screening theatrically and/or on various streaming platforms. NEW The Color Purple (12A) Like Mean Girls, this has taken an adapative journey… Read more »

This column will review films both screening theatrically and/or on various streaming platforms. NEW The Holdovers (15) Given the awards and nominations it’s already scooped (including two… Read more »

Two original stars of Cult Irish film The Commitments will be reuniting in Birmingham in September for a celebration of the 1991 Alan Parker film. The film,… Read more »

This column will review films both screening theatrically and/or on various streaming platforms. NEW Poor Things (18) Already hoovering up awards and nominations, with Emma Stone pretty… Read more »

This column will review films both screening theatrically and/or on various streaming platforms. NEW Night Swim (15) Burt Lancaster swam several of them, M Night Shyamalan had… Read more »

This column will review films both screening theatrically and/or on various streaming platforms. NEW Aquaman And The Lost Kingdom (12A) Given its troubled journey to the screen,… Read more »

This column will review films both screening theatrically and/or on various streaming platforms. NEW The Three Musketeers – Milady (12A) In April, Part 1, D’Artagnan, was released… Read more »

This column will review films both screening theatrically and/or on various streaming platforms. NEW Wonka (PG) Right up there at the top of quality street, celebrations are… Read more »

This column will review films both screening theatrically and/or on various streaming platforms. NEW Eileen (15) His first film since Lady Macbeth, director William Olroyd again offers… Read more »

Get ready for a Christmas celebration like no other as André Rieu, the world-renowned maestro of classical music, brings his inimitable holiday spirit to the silver screen… Read more »

This column will review films both screening theatrically and/or on various streaming platforms. NEW Napoleon (15) Turning 85, Ridley Scott still has the stamina of directors half… Read more »

This column will review films both screening theatrically and/or on various streaming platforms. NEW The Hunger Games: The Ballad Of Songbirds And Snakes (12A) Adapted from Suzanne… Read more »

This column will review films both screening theatrically and/or on various streaming platforms. NEW The Killer (15) Reuniting with Se7en screenwriter Andrew Kevin Walker, director David Fincher… Read more »

This column will review films both screening theatrically and/or on various streaming platforms. NEW Five Nights At Freddy’s (15) His career on something of a downwards slope… Read more »

This column will review films both screening theatrically and/or on various streaming platforms. NEW Killers Of The Flower Moon (15) Based on David Grann’s 2017 nonfiction bestseller… Read more »

This column will review films both screening theatrically and/or on various streaming platforms. NEW Sumotherhood (15) Having starred in Noel Clarke’s inner-city teen crime dramas Kidulthood and… Read more »

This column will review films both screening theatrically and/or on various streaming platforms. NEW The Great Escaper (12A) Directed by Oliver Parker from a screenplay by William… Read more »

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 »