Reviews

A Million Little Pieces begins with a blast – Aaron Taylor-Johnson’s alcoholic...

What is cinema for? To delight? To tell stories? To illuminate the rifts in...

“Some countries have diamonds, some countries have pearls, some countries have...

Memory is hardly the first documentary to attempt to get under the obsidian,...

Joanna Hogg is not for everyone. Joanna Hogg might not even be for most...

To date, there have been 15 released film adaptations of René Goscinny and...

Mrs Lowry & Son started life as a BBC radio play by Martyn Hesford (who adapts...

Olympus Has Fallen was arguably the better of 2013’s two Die...

In traditional Christian mythology, Satan is the original ultimate villain —...

Over his 40-year plus career, there have been at least three Pedro Almodóvars....

Like Goosebumps but chillier, Alvin Schwartz’s Scary Stories To Tell In The...

Alligators might not have the same cinematic cachet as, say, sharks, but that...

If you staged a retrospective of all the new millennium animated features that...

If you think that a live-action reboot of Nickelodeon’s favourite cartoon...

Already told (better) on the big screen in Jeff Feuerzeig’s documentary...

They grow up so fast, don’t they? One minute Jacob Tremblay was that adorable...

You can see why the logline for Garth Stein’s 2008 novel, The Art Of Racing In...

Just as Playmobil, a toy range invented in 1974, is like Lego with less scope...

At one point during the 1984/85 ‘Born In The USA’ tour, in-between ‘Follow The...

Ever since the ludicrous, immensely entertaining Fast Five, each new Fast &...

The Candidate opens with a lick stolen from GoodFellas. Standing on a beach,...

It’s been some 18 years since Shrek created a goldmine deconstructing the...

Ritesh Batra’s Photograph is built around around a fanciful conceit that...

Some first-time filmmakers make a film ripped from their own youth. Others —...