Movies & TV

Reports indicate that stocks of music and film discs are being removed from shelves in Tesco stores across the UK heralding the cessation of CD and DVD sales in the supermarket chain.  

Sky has officially announced the launch of Sky Cinema 4K for select subscribers of its Sky Italia service. Does this point to upcoming developments elsewhere?  

Spies and Samurai, Scorsese and the Spider-Verse, Strange and Sam Raimi - 2022 is shaping up to be stunning, but the real question is will Top Gun: Maverick finally get released?  

Another year will no doubt bring yet more doomsaying about the ‘death’ of physical media. A good job then that no-one from the boutique labels we know and love seems to be listening! Read the lineup. Plus enter competitions to win over half of this month's releases!  

George Clooney's eighth directorial effort lands on Amazon and starts well with Ben Affleck on fine form, but can it stick the landing?  

Straight from Hulu in the US to Netflix in the UK, Chloe Grace Moretz styles out this very tame clash of 28 Days Later and A Quiet Place which features very little of either androids or motherhood.  

Maggie Gyllenhaal's strikingly assured directorial debut will likely garner a lot of attention, not least for a trifecta of excellent performances from Olivia Colman, Jessie Buckley and Dakota Johnson.  

Sony attempts yet again to squeeze even more life out of its Spider-verse cash cow with a sequel that certainly improves over its poor original… but only just.  

Celebrating its 20th Anniversary in style, The Spirits Within - which bankrupted a Studio - is still the best Final Fantasy movie, with seemingly outdated effects that somehow stun in 4K.  

John Woo's Hollywood breakthrough was also arguably Van Damme's best action flick, but how on earth did Kino screw up this native 4K restoration so royally?  

A modern sci-fi classic in the making, this is grand, epic filmmaking at its absolute best, with a stunning 4K release to boot.  

Two time best Bond director Martin Campbell, who gave us Casino Royale and Goldeneye, gifts the latest Nikita, Maggie Q, her first real shot at a decent solo lead action movie and it's... fine.  

Star Trek, Indy, and Second Sight coming into their own, it's been a pretty spectacular year for 4K.  

Still reeling from the ongoing pandemic, cinema has come back with a bang arguably better than anybody could have expected, with a few strong Big Screen hitters, and plenty of heavyweight smaller support.  

Disney+ rounds out the year with the opening episode of its latest Star Wars spin-off, as fan-favourite Boba Fett's past and future get fleshed out.  

We head back to WWI for a prequel to Matthew Vaughn’s fun but flawed spy franchise which, if it had maintained its opening blistering insanity, could have been something really quite special indeed…  

Adam McKay's Chicken Little for adults is just shy of being funny, just shy of being insightful and just shy of being a good movie. What it isn't shy of is impotently railing at the stupidity of government and media.  

Enjoying a perfectly-timed Christmas vibe, solid origin storytelling, charming wit and fun street-level action, Hailee Steinfeld's Hawkeye is a great end to an impressive year of MCU TV shows.