Picard, the latest extension of the Star Trek franchise wrapped up its first season this week with a finale that leaned hard into the strengths and weaknesse...

Most, if not all cinemas have closed now due to the current Covid-19 pandemic. Plus many new releases have been postponed to later in the year. In essence, t...

4 out of 5 Here's a film that I heartily recommend you go and see. If you're a fan of Hitchcockian thrillers and psychological dramas with a delicious twist ...

2 out of 5 We have reached the halfway point in Star Trek Picard. Episode 5 aired last week and I've waited a week to give my half-time comments. It gives me...

2 out of 5 Greed tells the story of self-made British billionaire Sir Richard McCreadie played by Alan Partridge, sorry, Steve Coogan, whose retail empire is...

4 out of 5 Adapted from Jack London's classic 1903 novel, The Call of the Wild is set in the Yukon during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush. The story centres on ...

4 out of 5 The quote in the title of this review is taken from an interview I heard with Willem Dafoe when he was asked to describe what the film is about. H...

3.5 out of 5 There is a hashtag that does the rounds every so often on Social Media. It is the #UnpopularOpinion tag where people find a safe place to expres...

4 out of 5 Right off the bat (or maybe mallet?), credit is due to Margot Robbie for Birds of Prey and The Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn (let's...

4.5 out of 5 It's rare when a beautiful film comes along, and I mean a beautiful film. It's even rarer for a film to have me weeping within the first ten min...

4 out of 5 The BBC produced an adaptation of Charles Dickens' David Copperfield in the early seventies that really creeped me out. It was dark, depressing an...

3 out of 5 Yes, I'm a Trekker. I was hooked by the wagon-train to the stars from a very young age when I saw the original series with Kirk, Spock and McCoy o...

3 out of 5 Director Jay Roach is experienced in taking real-life stories and events and transferring them to the cinema. His previous films included 2017's M...

4 out of 5 Bryan Stevenson is a lawyer who founded the Equal Justice Initiative in 1989 in Alabama to investigate and provide legal advice to convicts, most ...

4 out of 5 About fifteen minutes or so into Sam Mendes' new film 1917, it dawned on me that I was watching something special. By the time the film ended with...

2 out of 5 Spoilers ahead! Jodie Whittaker is back as The Doctor and I fear she, like Peter Capaldi is doomed to be remembered as a weak incarnation of our f...

2 out of 5 Guy Ritchie has returned to his geezer-gangster roots with this oddly crafted, star-studded, predictable crime-caper. With both screenplay writing...

4 out of 5 If the purpose of a film is to create a believable world that draws you in, to give you characters you can believe in, entertain, tell a story and...

3.5 out of 5 To call the new film by writer and director Taika Waititi a comedy is to do it a disservice. Yes, there are many laugh-out-loud moments and many...

4 out of 5 The beauty of this film is its simplicity and it has the human condition at its heart through a wonderful script based on true events. The Two Pop...