Film Review: ‘Suffragette’
★★★★☆ The ongoing battle for equality of the sexes is an issue that is constantly debated in the media – and rightly so. The...
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12 July 2019
Film Review: Vita & Virginia
★★☆☆☆ Compared to many authors, Virginia Woolf has fared relatively well on screen. Eileen Atkins’ one-woman stage show, A Room of One’s Own, that...
11 July 2019
Film Review: Only You
★★★☆☆ IVF remains a rarely discussed topic in cinema, even though millions of people go through it each year, which makes Harry Wootliff’s debut...
25 July 2018
Film Review: Ant-Man and the Wasp
★★★★☆ Bring It On director Peyton Reed returns with Marvel sequel Ant-Man and the Wasp, a heartfelt family comedy in which the peril lies...
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Film Review: ‘Life’
★★★☆☆ It would be a mistake to call Anton Corbijn’s Life (2015) a James Dean biopic, despite its subject matter. Far more interesting is...
Film Review: ‘Everest’
★★★☆☆ Plunging you into the mindset of a group of mountaineers tackling the highest point on Earth, Baltasar Kormákur’s Everest (2015) is a heady...
Film Review: ‘Legend’
★★★☆☆ There has always been a wide appeal to the myth of the Kray brothers, who ruled London’s underworld in the Swinging Sixties. Now...
Film Review: ‘The Man from U.N.C.L.E.’
★★★☆☆ Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998) helmer Guy Ritchie returns to the director’s chair with The Man from U.N.C.L.E., a stylish rework...
Film Review: ‘Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation’
★★☆☆☆ Tom Cruise reprises his role as spy Ethan Hunt in Rogue Nation (2015), the fifth instalment of the Mission: Impossible franchise, this time...
Film Review: ‘Ant-Man’
★★★★☆ Starring Paul Rudd as the diminutive hero, Ant-Man (2015) is a hilarious heist movie cum superhero flick that proves to be a hugely...
DVD Review: ‘Chappie’
★★★☆☆ With a hip-hop, cyberpunk aesthetic paying homage to 1980s classics Short Circuit (1986) and RoboCop (1987), by way of the critically derided Tank...
