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Zen McGrath, Laura Dern and Hugh Jackman in The Son.

The Son review: a portrait of mental health and parental struggles

by Tim Murray | Feb 22, 2023 | Reviews

Director Florian Zeller tackles the topic of mental health in The Son, an assured follow-up to his debut The Father - here's our review....

Ant-Man And The Wasp Quantumania title card

Ant-Man And The Wasp: Quantumania review: Marvel hits more problems

by Lauren Miles | Feb 15, 2023 | Reviews

The charisma of Paul Rudd and Jonathan Majors struggles to carry Ant-Man And The Wasp: Quantumania - here's our review....

Viking Wolf review: all bite, no larks

by James Harvey | Feb 10, 2023 | Reviews

When 17-year-old Thale witnesses a grisly tragedy in the woods, she becomes a key witness in an investigation which may or may not feature a wolf....

Puss in Boots (Antonio Banderas) in Puss In Boots: The Last Wish.

Puss In Boots: The Last Wish review: a vivid sequel

by Lauren Miles | Feb 03, 2023 | Reviews

Everyone's favourite boot-wearing cat returns for a colourful and action-packed sequel in Puss In Boots: The Last Wish - here's our review....

EO the donkey stood in a field in EO (directed by Jerzy Skolimowski).

EO review: a donkey's journey

by Lauren Miles | Feb 03, 2023 | Reviews

In EO, an innocent donkey undergoes a long journey where he discovers a lot about humanity - here's our review. T...

Knock At The Cabin review: a family must make a choice

by Tom Beasley | Feb 02, 2023 | Reviews

Dave Bautista is chilling as the antagonist of M Night Shyamalan's Knock At The Cabin - here's our review....

You People review: culture clash comedy drags its feet

by James Harvey | Jan 27, 2023 | Reviews

When Ezra (Jonah Hill) and Amira (Lauren London) decide to get married, they’ll have a tough time bringing their parents along for the ride in N...

Jennifer Lopez as Darcy Rivera and Josh Duhamel as Tom Fowler in Shotgun Wedding. Photo Credit: Ana Carballosa

Shotgun Wedding review: Jennifer Lopez’s destination wedding goes horribly wrong

by Lauren Miles | Jan 24, 2023 | Reviews

Jennifer Lopez and Josh Duhamel play a couple troubled by fussy family members - and pirates - before their nuptials in Shotgun Wedding. ...

Holy Spider review: a brutal serial killer tale

by David Baldwin | Jan 20, 2023 | Reviews

Ali Abassi's Holy Spider retells the story of Iranian murderer The Spider Killer - but smartly avoids glorifying his actions....

Plane review: Gerard Butler sticks the landing

by Mark Harrison | Jan 20, 2023 | Reviews

Gerard Butler, Mike Colter, and Tony Goldwyn star in the action-thriller Plane, a film that does what it says on the tin, and does it with gusto......

Samuel Finzi, Iossif Surchadzhiev and Leonid Yovchev in January (directed by Andrey Paounov).

January review: isolated men experience strange things...

by Lauren Miles | Jan 20, 2023 | Reviews

Two men attempt to make sense of some mysterious happenings in an isolated location, paranoia ensues - here's our review of January....

Guslagie Malanga as Laurence Coly in Saint Omer (directed by Alice Diop).

Saint Omer review: a powerful legal drama

by Lauren Miles | Jan 19, 2023 | Reviews

Alice Diop's tense legal drama Saint Omer examines the motivations of a mother who killed her child - here's our review....

The Callisto Protocol review | Shooting for the moon

by Aaron Potter | Jan 16, 2023 | Gaming, Reviews

This nuts and bolts survival horror has a few screws loose

Ryan Kiera Armstrong as Brooke and Nicolas Cage as Colton Briggs in The Old Way.

The Old Way review: Nicolas Cage's first traditional Western

by Lauren Miles | Jan 13, 2023 | Reviews

Nic Cage plays a retired gunslinger forced back into action in The Old Way, his first ever Western - here's our review....

Patton Oswalt and James Morosini as Chuck and Franklin in I Love My Dad.

I Love My Dad review: Patton Oswalt catfishes his son

by Lauren Miles | Jan 10, 2023 | Reviews

Based on the real-life actions of James Morosini's father, I Love My Dad is an uncomfortable yet sincere comedy. J...

Goat Simulator 3 review | Udderly irresistible

by Sarah Thwaites | Jan 09, 2023 | Gaming, Reviews

Being the G.O.A.T isn’t overrated

M3gan review: old ideas done better than ever

by Brendon Connelly | Jan 04, 2023 | Reviews

M3gan is a flat-out horror treat to start 2023 off - and it might just have brought us a brand new horror icon too....

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery review: Daniel Craig takes a bath

by Simon Brew | Dec 23, 2022 | Reviews

Daniel Craig has a wash and tries to solve a mystery in the second Knives Out film - and here's our review....

Saturnalia review | Sketch-based horror is scary as folk

by Alexander Chatziioannou | Dec 21, 2022 | Gaming, Reviews

Developer Santa Ragione sketch out a truly engrossing folk-horror in Saturnalia

Lucy Dreaming review | LucasArts throwback clicks into place

by Andrew J Dickinson | Dec 15, 2022 | Gaming, Reviews

Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy?

Avatar: The Way Of Water review: a return to Pandora

by Dan Cooper | Dec 14, 2022 | Reviews

Over a decade after the release of the record-breaking Avatar, James Cameron invites us back to Pandora in Avatar: The Way of Water - here's our rev...