Dizzying and imaginative absurdism meets profound and heartfelt ode to the family in this utterly charming, joyous and clinically insane crowd pleaser.
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness Movie Review
by Cas Harlow
More Raimi than Marvel; more WandaVision than Doctor Strange, Multiverse of Madness is as close to horror as the MCU is likely to get - Updated for 3D IMAX
Far from the DTV action flick you might expect from the generic title and more a commendable third reunion for Hell or High Water brothers-in-arms Chris Pine and Ben Foster, The Contractor delivers low-key indie thrills.
Following creepy success in The Witch and stark madness in The Lighthouse, Robert Eggers's Viking saga is a masterfully crafted, full-throated berserker roar.
Mark Rylance puts in another reliably terrific show-stopping performance as a simple suit craftsman caught in a bind when his mob-drop shop ends up in the sights of paranoid gangsters.
Like a loose spy riff on an Agatha Christie mystery, and just as flawed, Chris Pine and Thandiwe Newton share a smidge of chemistry but struggle to escape the inevitable.
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore (IMAX) Movie Review
by Mark Costello
With this uneagerly awaited new release of a film from a franchise no-one cared for in the first place, surely there’s something of merit to be found here? Isn’t there?
Producer Guillermo Del Toro presents a combination of First Nations folklore and modern societal and industrial decay in Scott Cooper’s down-to-earth horror/creature feature.
Folk horror meets mental illness and parental toxicity in Kate Dolan’s debut, a film which has you questioning whether we need to invent supernatural explanations for horrifying human behaviours.
Ploughing through the catalogue of incidental Spider-Man characters, Sony offers up a movie about that most necrotic of super-anti-heroes, Dr Michael Morbius... and in keeping with its vampiric themes, it both bites and sucks.
The Eyes of Tammy Faye (Disney+ 4K Dolby Vision) Movie Review
by Cas Harlow
Despite the Best Actress win for Jessica Chastain, her Tammy Faye’s a whole load of makeup and furious televangelism, with not a great deal to actually say.
Ironically reflecting his seeming inability to retire from action roles, Neeson plays a secret black ops cleaner with OCD by driving a really loud, distinctive Mustang and locking his door three times.
Happy Bay Day everybody! And action cinema’s Grandaddy Terrible makes a welcome return with a pleasingly stripped-down action thriller that instantly brings to mind one of the greatest purveyors of the genre…
Splitting the clearly epic Fortress Saga into a trilogy, this is but the start of a long ride to the end of Willis' career, and - oddly - not the absolute worst DTV feature he's vaguely appeared in.
Stephen Graham gives a masterful performance in Philip Barantini’s tense, one-cut character portrait of a chef having the worst night of his life which comes to Netflix after a limited theatrical run.
Blending the body-jumping of Quantum Leap with the amnesiac operative of the Bourne movies, this high octane, high concept Korean thriller is a head-spinning blast.
Adam Berg's writer/directorial debut launches Noomi Rapace across the ice in a post-apocalyptic thriller that boasts a succession of blisteringly tense action sequences.