Cinema and Film

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 »

This column will review films both screening theatrically and/or on various streaming platforms. NEW Babylon (18) Before the title appears on screen, two men will have been… Read more »

This column will review films both screening theatrically and/or on various streaming platforms. NEW M3gan (15) The latest addition to the killer doll horror sub-genre also taps… Read more »

This column will review films both screening theatrically and/or on various streaming platforms. NEW Empire Of Light (15) His first film as both writer and director, bolstered… Read more »

This column will review films both screening theatrically and/or on various streaming platforms. NEW Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance With Somebody (12A) There’s already been two documentaries… Read more »

This column will review films both screening theatrically and/or on various streaming platforms. NEW Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (12A) Having done blockbuster style business on… Read more »

This column will review films both screening theatrically and/or on various streaming platforms. NEW Avatar: The Way Of Water (12A) Thirteen years in the waiting, James Cameron… Read more »

This column will review films both screening theatrically and/or on various streaming platforms. NEW The Silent Twins (18) Their story previously told in a BBC drama, a… Read more »

This column will review films both screening theatrically and/or on various streaming platforms. NEW Violent Night (15) It’s such an obvious title, it’s surprising nobody thought of… Read more »

This column will review films both screening theatrically and/or on various streaming platforms. NEW She Said (15) Depressingly a box office bomb in America, where it seems… Read more »