Fisherman's Friends is an easy-going, gently moving treat
When it comes to sea shanties, I’m very much of the school that a little goes a long way.
View ArticleRalph Fiennes impresses both sides of the camera in The White Crow but Oleg...
Ralph Fiennes doesn’t speak much Russian himself, apparently, but the country has clearly got under his skin.
View ArticleTim Burton's Dumbo may not make you come out believing an elephant can fly...
Anyone revisiting the original 1941 version of Dumbo will be unavoidably struck by two things.
View ArticleShazam! has a youthful enthusiasm and joyful silliness that is unexpectedly...
There’s a joke early on in Shazam! that ambitiously links child foster care with social-inclusion policies at American universities and, improbably but oh so importantly, it works.
View ArticleWild Rose is easy to admire but surprisingly difficult to like
Wild Rose is about an aspiring Scottish singer from the wrong side of the tracks who dreams of travelling to Nashville to find country music fame and fortune.
View ArticleDame Judi Dench gives an acting masterclass in Red Joan as Britain's...
I love a film that gets under way at high speed, and Red Joan is certainly that. In the space of 90 seconds our anti-heroine has pruned her garden, read the paper and answered her front door.
View ArticleAfter 11 years and 22 films Avengers: Endgame comes to a quite brilliant and...
Amazingly, it’s only 11 years since a motor-mouthed Robert Downey Jr took on the part of Iron Man and almost overnight transformed our cinematic appetite for Marvel superheroes.
View ArticleA new biopic about Tolkien comes across as plausible, tender and extremely...
Tolkien’s The Lord Of The Rings was first published in the mid-Fifties.
View ArticleThe Hustle starring Anne Hathaway and Rebel Wilson is unambitious and...
In this new era of gender equality in the film industry, it is of course quite right that there should be a female remake of the popular 1988 comedy Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.
View ArticleJohn Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum is a massively overlong film where an...
By now, a resourceful teenager – probably living in his parents’ basement in the United States – knows exactly how many people are killed in John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum .
View ArticleRocketman is a film that hits you like a ton of bricks... Yellow...
Forget the glitz and glamour of its world premiere in Cannes, forget Elton John posing for photographers at the London premiere last week.
View ArticleGodzilla: King Of The Monsters turns out to be a very long and incredibly...
Honestly, I’d love to be able to say that in Godzilla: King Of The Monsters I saw some sort of grand cinematic homage at work.
View ArticleLate Night is such an unexpected and delicious treat that works quite...
On paper you might not expect the combination of Emma Thompson, the double Oscar-winning first lady of British cinema, and Mindy Kaling, the American-Asian rising star of US television, to work.
View ArticleMen In Black: International starring Chris Hemsworth and Tessa Thompson...
If you're trying to reboot a once hugely popular but now long inactive film franchise, then employing one former Avenger is probably a pretty good idea.
View ArticleToy Story 4 is a step down from everything that has gone before, which has...
Five minutes into Toy Story 4 and I was already blinking back the tears.
View ArticleYesterday is short of a classic... But there are some very funny lines and...
As Paul McCartney once famously warbled: 'Oh, I believe in yesterday.' But the problem with the much-anticipated new film that takes its title from his 1965 song is the exact opposite: I don't believe...
View ArticleThought Marvel's super-heroes were past it? Fear not! Spider-Man: Far From...
It is not even three months since Avengers: Endgame seemingly brought the 22-movie run of the so-called Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) to a spectacular and climactic close.
View ArticleColin Firth is perfectly good but comes close to unbalancing the story in...
Like many, I vividly remember the real-life horror of the Kursk, when a badly damaged Russian submarine - rocked by explosions - sank to the bottom of the Barents Sea in August 2000.
View ArticleThe Lion King has surely woven enough screen magic to ensure huge success at...
When it comes to sweating its assets, Disney is in a money-making class of its own.
View ArticleThe Current War starring Benedict Cumberbatch is a film that interests but...
Any film that suffers a near two-year gap between its first screening and full commercial release will inevitably be viewed with suspicion.
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