★★★★☆ Dir. Anthony Maras Starring: Andrew Scott, Brendan Fraser, Kerry Condon, Chris Messina | Runtime: 114 mins Cinematic chronicles of the Normandy landings have almost exclusively fixed their gaze upon the churn of the English Channel and the blood-soaked dunes of Omaha Beach. From The Longest Day to Saving Private Ryan, our cultural memory of June 1944 is forged in cordite, artillery thunder, and kinetic horror. In Pressure, director Anthony Maras strips away the battlefi

★★★☆☆ Dir. Scott Waugh | Starring: Alan Ritchson, Owen Wilson, Rodrigo Santoro, Leila George | Runtime: 98 mins I went into Runner with rock-bottom expectations. On paper, Scott Waugh’s latest looked like a cookie-cutter direct-to-streaming cast-off: an improbable pairing of action-meathead and breezy comedian shoehorned into a cross-country dash against the clock. Yet, while it hardly rewrites the genre playbook, this oddball thriller manages to clear a low bar by sheer virt

When the U.S.S. Enterprise first flickered across cathode-ray television sets in the US on September 8, 1966, I was only a year old. I had to wait until the BBC showed the series in the early 1970s, and I was hooked. I recall it started at 7.20pm and finished at 8.10pm. My bedtime was 8pm. You can imagine the pleadings of a young child who wanted to stay up to see the last ten minutes and to find out if Captain Kirk, Mr Spock, Dr. McCoy and the USS Enterprise would survive th