Cinema

Entertaining. Mostly: Dream Scenario reviewed

11 November 2023 9:00 am

Dream Scenario is a high-concept dark comedy about celebrity and cancel culture. It stars our old pal Nicolas Cage who,…

Outstanding and eye-opening doc about North Korea: Beyond Utopia review

4 November 2023 9:00 am

The documentary Beyond Utopia follows various families as they attempt to flee North Korea. It is eye-opening and outstanding. In…

Basic, plodding and lacking any actual horror: Doctor Jekyll reviewed

28 October 2023 9:00 am

Tis the season of horror, as it’s Halloween, which we celebrate in this house by turning off all the lights…

Epic, immersive and tiresomely long: Killers of the Flower Moon reviewed

21 October 2023 9:00 am

Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon is a Western crime drama that runs to three-and-a-half hours. (Sit on that,…

The miracle of The Miracle Club is that it does, I promise, end

14 October 2023 9:00 am

The Miracle Club, which is about a group of Irish women who travel to Lourdes, has a magnificent cast –…

A great subject squandered: Golda reviewed

7 October 2023 9:00 am

Born in Tsarist Kyiv in 1898, Golda Meir grew up with what she called a ‘pogrom complex’. That perhaps explained…

Soapy and sentimental: Ken Loach’s The Old Oak reviewed

30 September 2023 9:00 am

Ken Loach has said The Old Oak will be his last film – he’s 87; the golf course probably beckons.…

Menacingly entertaining thriller, despite the clichés: A Lesson reviewed

23 September 2023 9:00 am

The Lesson is a literary thriller that is occasionally heavy-handed but also menacingly entertaining, plus you get Richard E. Grant…

Someone stop Kenneth Branagh: A Haunting in Venice reviewed

16 September 2023 9:00 am

A Haunting in Venice is Kenneth Branagh’s third Poirot film (after Murder on the Orient Express and Death on the…