★★★ It’s been two decades since Love Actually rewrote the Christmas movie playbook, predominantly by exhausting it. If you’ve ever wondered what an infantilisation of the interconnectivity conceit would look like, Netflix’s That Christmas has
★★ It’s amazing just how involving The Lion King is on stage. The lack of actual, or, indeed, believable, lions on stage matters less in this context than the ability of the actors to speak
★★★★ Oh my, how time flies. Nine years have passed since our last dip into the ongoing diary of Bridget Jones. Said film saw the beloved Brit – invention of Helen Fielding, masterpiece of Renée
★★★ A bit player in the Chris Evans era, Anthony Mackie never really found definition as Falcon. Marvel gave him the wings (literally) but none of the personality and individuality he needed to fly. Not
★★ It’s no mean feat to earn an 18 certificate in 2025. Sadism and hard sex will usually do it but audiences today are far too well immunised for drugs and swearing to cut the
★★★ Somewhere between ‘poisoned apple’ and ‘fairest of them all’ lies a more nuanced assessment of Marc Webb’s Snow White than that widely available online. The film may not quite achieve irrefutable greatness but there’s
★★★ The furry blue foot remains very much within the box for Dean Fleischer Camp’s Lilo & Stitch, a live action replication of the Disney animated classic. 2002’s OG Hawaiian rollercoaster ride proved something of
Full disclosure before we get into this; I bought a ticket for Final Destinations: Bloodlines and went into the wrong theater. That is not a joke. I was very confused why Final Destination had such
★★★★ A delectable premise finds maniacal delivery in Drop, a taut new thriller from Happy Death Day’s Christopher Landon. As penned by Jillian Jacobs and Chris Roach, the film boasts the sort of idea so
Here we are again; another Marvel movie, another day of remembering when I used to get excited for these things. It genuinely feels like a lifetime ago when the idea of the MCU’s ongoing story