Extraction
Until recently, Netflix might have been hoping this watchable but workmanlike action-thriller would draw in viewers fresh from a new Bond movie and looking to...
Arts & Entertainment
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The Invisible Man
A #MeToo horror film that couldn’t be any more timely if it shuffled into a courtroom with a Zimmer frame, ‘The Invisible Man’ retools HG Wells’s seminal...
Onward
Pixar is known for tackling the chewy stuff head on – death, the end of childhood, a rodent running a restaurant – but even so, the central conceit of its new...
Little Women
Greta Gerwig has directed only two films that are solely her own but she’s already become a brand. That’s in evidence within the first five minutes of ‘Little...
Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)
Little good came out of 2016’s ‘Suicide Squad’, but one of its few bright points was Margot Robbie’s anarchic Harley Quinn. Now she gets another shot at the...
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Playing with Fire
There’s a longstanding tradition in Hollywood that if you put an uber-macho beefcake in a situation where they have to care for a child, it’s a recipe for...
Terminator: Dark Fate
The headline on this latest addition to the ‘Terminator’ franchise – a Hollywood series that’s creaking like an aging T-800 with stiff joints – is that it...
Charlie's Angels
Director Elizabeth Banks takes the helm as the next generation of fearless Charlie's Angels take flight. In Banks' bold vision, Kristen Stewart, Naomi Scott,...
Maleficent: Mistress of Evil
An overstuffed follow-up to 2014’s skilful Sleeping Beauty’ spin-off ‘Maleficent’, Joachim Rønning’s (‘Kon-Tiki’) sequel finds one worthy reason to exist in...
Film and TV features
Saw Teong Hin interview
Director Saw Teong Hin talks about his latest movie and first Penang Hokkien feature film 'You Mean the World to Me'
Dain Said interview
The charismatic filmmaker talks identity, literature and his distaste for nostalgia
U-Wei Haji Saari interview
Director U-Wei Haji Saari talks about his latest film, ‘Hanyut’, and the lost art of storytelling
Everything you need to know about ‘Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them’
From trailers to casting news, details about sequels and the release date – here’s everything you need to know about JK Rowling’s new movie...