In the 1950s there was a Friday night Lufthansa flight from Frankfurt to Zürich nicknamed the Queen Express – since most of its passengers were gay men heading to Switzerland where homosexuality was not a crime. Part doc, part drama, director Stef...
Despite cries to abandon ship, ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ has set sail yet again. We’re on film five now and this really is swashbuckling by numbers, with prison altercations, ghost crews, hangman’s high jinks and battle scenes that could have bee...
The virtue of courage is high up on the list of Disney princess must-haves (just below kindness, beauty and a strapping prince in tight trousers). And three cheers for director Bill Condon and star Emma Watson for having the courage to make a live...
Before you get funny, no, they haven’t come for his cat this time. Keanu Reeves is back as the taciturn ex-assassin prone to murderous rages: 2014’s ‘John Wick’ saw him taking on the Russian mobsters who killed his dog (it reminded him of his dead...
The British explorer Percy Fawcett – driven crazy by his obsession to find a lost Amazonian city – vanished in the jungle in 1925. His story has everything you could possibly want in an adventure tale: treacherous colleagues, cannibals with bubbli...
Here is Jessica Chastain flexing her extraordinary Meryl Streep-like range again and just about keeping this political thriller in the realm of enjoyable. Her character is Elizabeth Sloane, a ruthless Washington DC lobbyist so fierce that when she...
Horror movie fans have a notoriously high crap threshold, but it’s hard to imagine even the most hardcore watch-anything scare-fiend getting anything besides a headache out of this grindingly dull supernatural stinker. As the dreadful title implie...
This American horror film has more fun playing with racial tensions than with scaring us to death, which for some will be a bit of a letdown. The problem with ‘Get Out’ is that it is perhaps a touch too in love with its big idea: that for a young ...
Do you have a six-year-old? Are they conversant in office politics? Do they love intricate, mind-scrambling existentialist narratives that lead nowhere? Then hurry them along to this deeply strange but somehow also very dull family cartoon comedy....
If just thinking about Michael Fassbender makes you want to strip off all your clothes, ‘Alien: Covenant’ has a cure for that. David the robot, his creepier-than-a-serial-killer android butler, was the breakout star of Ridley Scott’s 2012 ‘Alien’ ...
