Cinema and Film

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 »

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 »