Rating: ★★★☆☆ Written by Denise Breen Nia DaCosta’s 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple is a strange, claustrophobic beast. Serving as the second installment in the new trilogy (and the fourth film in the franchise overall), it abandons the sweeping, road-movie scope of last year's 28 Years Later for something far more theatrical, static, and arguably, bizarre. While it boasts a mesmerizing central performance by Ralph Fiennes, the film suffers from tonal whiplash that makes it a

Written by Denise Breen Star Trek: Starfleet Academy has finally landed, and if the first two episodes (“Kids These Days” and “Beta Test”) are any indication, the franchise has found its most vibrant and interesting voice in years. This isn’t just 90210 in space; it is a high-stakes, emotional, and surprisingly funny look at the 32nd Century that manages to honour the legacy of the Federation while charting a completely new course. The headline here is, of course, the casting

Rating: ★★★★★ Written by Denise Breen In the canon of literary adaptations, the translation of Maggie O’Farrell’s luminous 2020 novel, Hamnet, to the screen was always going to be a perilous undertaking. Having read the book, I wodered how a director might adapt a story that is so internal—so reliant on the sensory experiences of smell, touch, and the unseen currents between people. It would require a cinematic language that speaks in whispers rather than shouts. It is with p