As the plot of 'Us' becomes more deranged and dangerous, the superb cast rise to the challenge of making the sets of roles feel real
Captain Marvel's writing and directing team Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck have a lot of fun with their 1990s setting, mining the era for nostalgic references and soundtrack cues, but politically their film is very much of the moment
Cinema The Hole in the Ground: Directed by Lee Cronin, Nationwide, 15A, Rating: **** Fighting Wit...
Crack the ice on director Hans Petter Moland’s English-language remake of his 2014 Norwegian film In Order of Disappearance, and it becomes clear that Cold Pursuit is a comedy, in which murder and mayhem are mined for laughs
With her latest impressive performance in hotly tipped Irish horror movie The Hole in the Ground, Seána Kerslake’s star continues to rise – but she refuses to let it go to her head
Cinema If Beale Street Could Talk: Directed by Barry Jenkins, Nationwide, 15A, Rating: **** A Pri...
For all of the constant talk about ‘the death of cinema’, last year was another record-breaking year at the box office. In that light, it’s hard not to get excited about what 2019 might have in store for the big screen
Kenneth Branagh’s beautifully played and handsomely produced film places Shakespeare the man and his mind centre stage, returning the genius dramatist of legend to the all-too-human world
What saves Green Book from embarrassing gaucheness is its sense of humour
As played from beneath 60 added pounds of wobbling flesh by a transformed Christian Bale, Dick Cheney is a cartoon villain from his piggy eyes to his psychopath’s monotone
Rourke recreates history with an arresting visual flair, but cannot exert the same grip on her overloaded story
The Front Runner, Jason Reitman’s new film about the scandal that engulfed American presidential candidate Gary Hart in the late 1980s, seems almost cute and quaint in comparison to the hellscape we currently inhabit
Titans of their cultural age, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy’s rich comedic legacy lives on in a new biopic which sees them brought back to life by Steve Coogan and John C Reilly. John Maguire meets the two stars in London
The Favourite is an extravagantly strange, sublimely bawdy film that can count three phenomenal performances from phenomenal actresses amongst its heaped achievements.
Cinema Mary Poppins Returns: Directed by Rob Marshall, Nationwide, G, Rating: *** Roma: Directed ...
