★ Phil Johnston’s new take on The Twits – the first in a slate of animations from the now Netflix owned Roald Dahl Story Company – is revolting. Seriously so. If only that were a
★★★★ Already the subject of three landmark documentaries – not least the BBC’s seminal 1989 short John’s Not Mad – the remarkable and often gut wrenching story of John Davidson finds dramatisation this week in
I’m sure every generation at some point or another has thought: “this is the worst it’s ever been”. Worry, fear, sadness, anxiety; all of these aren’t new feelings magically invented every time a generation grows
★★★ You’d be hard pressed to find anything in this third and final Downton outing that lives up to the ‘Grand’ of its title. The stakes could scarcely be lower – ‘How are you getting
We will probably run out of helium, trees and clean drinking water before we run out of Stephen King stories to adapt to film. The guy has over 200 written pieces of work to his
★★ Richard Osman’s “The Thursday Murder Club” screams – or, rather, ahems – Sunday night on the BBC. It’s so obvious that a character in the erroneous, Netflix-funded, Chris Columbus movie that has actually been
Can the Coen Brothers just kiss and make-up already? Look, I get they wanna do their own things. Joel Coen wants to make one-for-one adaptations of Shakespeare classics, and Ethan Coen wants to make movies
Much like Longlegs last year, Weapons may just win the award for best viral marketing strategy for this year. But honestly, stellar marketing aside, as soon as I heard that Jordan Peele was reportedly so
★★★ There are echoes of the Jordan Peele in Zach Cregger’s ascendancy from sitcom frequenter to horror messiah. Indeed, much as was the case for Peale’s Get Out, Cregger already finds himself proclaimed the voice
★★★★ There’s a generation out there for whom a sequel to 2003 body swap comedy Freaky Friday enjoys the same nostalgia premium as did the return of Star Wars in 2015’s The Force Awakens to