Movie Reviews

As Disney’s new blank chequebook hits cinemas, there’s a sense of optimism around Rogue One. The Force Awakens put to rest any and all fears the masses may have had lingering from George Lucas’ toy...

I’ll be honest, I chickened out of reviewing The Force Awakens last year. As a huge Star Wars fan, I felt that I could not write a balanced and fair review. After the prequels, I had many concerns, but after...

Remember Hostel? Where poor tourists are abducted and cut up in various fun but creepy and bloody ways? Then you don't need to watch Kidnap Capital, its timid little brother. I've seen some great reviews...

Set in the year 1926, writer Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne) arrives in New York having returned from a global adventure documenting an extraordinary array of magical creatures. However, Newt's fantastical...

Physically and psychologically scarred after a brutal attack, agoraphobic music journalist Andrew (Interstellar’s David Gyasi) lives a solitary existence, hermetically sealed in his high-rise flat, never...

After he is almost killed by an escaped psychopath, police detective Takakura (Hidetoshi Nishijima) gives up his career in Tokyo to become a university lecturer, teaching criminal psychology. But when he and...

Based on the novel released in 2011 by Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children tells the story of Jake, a teenager that just doesn’t fit in. Early on in the film Jake’s grandfather,...

Based on true events in Mississippi 1862, a farmer and medic for the Confederate Army, Newton Knight (Matthew McConaughey), flees his position which brands him an enemy of the State. Opposed to slavery and...

Based on true events in 1986, federal agent Robert Mazur (Bryan Cranston) must go undercover to infiltrate a money-laundering scheme led by infamous drug lord, Pablo Escobar. Posing as a wealthy businessman,...

“Nobody is who you imagine them to be. We are probably a bit of a mystery even to ourselves.  In the end what matters is how many marks you’ve left behind.” Someone trying to leave as few marks...

I think it's fair to say I have never walked out of a cinema and thought: "Wow. Turkey basters should be used in films more often", but that's exactly what happened after Don't Breathe.  Director Fede...

Having moved out of the city, a young reprobate by the name of Ricky Baker (Julian Dennison) and his reluctant foster father, Hec (Sam Neill), finds themselves at the centre of a ruthless manhunt after they...

Some times it takes an outsider to take a nation’s temperature. Armed with a lean, sharp script from Sicario scribe Taylor Sheridan, Scots director David Mackenzie does no less, serving up a spare, elegiac...

Set in Florida in 2005, David Packouz (Miles Teller) is a down-and-out massage therapist who becomes a multi-millionaire when he teams up with a high-school friend, Efraim Diveroli (Jonah Hill), supplying...

Mother Nature is a bitch! If there’s one lesson we can learn from the movies, it’s that. Go for a walk in the wilderness and you will end up having to use a penknife to hack off the arm you get...

In 1983, Theologian John Hull lost his sight just days before the birth of his first son. Having his entire world transformed by this development, Hull decided the only way he could process this adjustment and...

Baskin revolves around a team of five police officers whose evening is interrupted by a distress call from the rural town of Inceagac, a place haunted by rumours of strange occurrences and secrets. Upon...

Having lost their jobs at a University, paranormal researcher Abby Yates (Melissa McCarthy), and physicist Erin Gilbert (Kristen Wiig) set out to prove that ghosts exist following two mysterious sightings of...

A one-hit literary wunderkind coasting on the 25-year success of his first novel, author Sandy Duffy (Conleth Lee) makes a comfortable living as a TV personality, butting heads on a late-night arts review show...

In a time of tremendous turbulence in the British cultural and political landscape, awareness and comment in our cinema is vital. Even more so perhaps is a cinema that examines our identity, not only in terms...

Waking up from a coma after a devastating, near fatal, head injury, our unnamed protagonist (Tom Sturridge) finds himself a rich man, his lawyer friend Greg (Ed Speleers) having negotiated a massive £8...