Movies & TV Reviews

An almost overwhelmingly intimate look into one of popular music’s most iconic and infamous episodes, the break-up of The Beatles. Peter Jackson sifts through hundreds of hours of footage to present this superbly detailed and intricate look into three weeks that shook the world of popular music...  

Lin-Manuel Miranda continues his seemingly unstoppable reign with a fresh new Disney feature that hits all the right notes.  

With Stallone wisely jettisoning and reframing much of the glamour and pomp from his 80s cheesefest, Rocky IV is fashioned into a considerably more weighty Rumble in the Jungle.  

Getting raw and digging deep for her directorial debut, Halle Berry reshapes herself for a punishing bout of Rocky/Warrior-channelling MMA torture with character pleasantly kept at the forefront.  

Kristen Stewart is outstanding in Pablo Larraín's second First Lady biopic after Jackie, here taking a richly fish-eyed look at isolation and mental illness in the land of the blindly privileged, and paying fitting tribute to a lost soul.  

In Anders Thomas Jensen’s black comedy, Mads Mikkelsen takes on a biker gang in a movie about accidents, coincidences, computer hacking, large Danish barns and, perhaps most surprisingly, the psychological toll caused by a quest for revenge.  

Enjoying a perfectly-timed Christmas vibe, solid origin storytelling, charming wit and fun street-level action, Hailee Steinfeld's Hawkeye gets off to a promising start.  

Lisa Joy's Box Office Bomb of a directorial debut may well be a flawed effort, but it gets points for commitment to the rarely financially successful tech noir genre, and it looks and sounds fabulous in native 4K DV with Atmos.  

The genre defining “bounty hunter in space” story, Cowboy Bebop, returns to television screens after more than twenty years. Bringing live action and faithful production design but leaving behind the Real Folk Blues and, sadly, any heart.  

Will Smith shoots for another Oscar nomination with this earnest acting vehicle; a charming Straight Outta Compton underdog story about the trials and tribulations of the legendary Williams sisters and their relentlessly determined dad.  

With Amazon still searching for its Game of Thrones, the adaptation of Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson’s best-selling series of novels manages to mostly set aside teen angst to craft an uneven but pacey high fantasy adventure.  

A supremely charming and hugely fun sequel that strikes the near perfect balance of nostalgia and modern-day sequel that has its heart firmly in the right place and is truly worthy of the Ghostbusters' name.  

Whilst Eternals flounders at the Big Screen, Marvel's ode to Wuxia, Shang-Chi, smashes down onto home formats, not only on 4K disc, but actually - arguably more impressively - in IMAX Enhanced 4KDV on Disney+.  

This undeniably slight road movie is a heartfelt but melancholy affair, mostly because it might be the last starring work we get from the 91 year old legend that is Clint Eastwood. Plus win a 40-film Eastwood Box Set.  

Continuing to stand out amongst the rest, Doom Patrol enjoys leaning into its horror roots for a superb season of zombies, resurrections, astral projections, time travel and dance numbers.  

Continuing the streak of thievery themed Netflix output, Red Notice is a vacuous husk of a heist movie with a lot of star power, some odd daddy issues, and very little else.  

Toys come to life in this G. I. Joe spin off that has top tier AV on a pants film  

Donnie Yen goes for a Hard Boiled John Wick version of Heat, in one of the better Hong Kong crime actioners since the heady days of prime Woo.