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White Chamber is one of those productions where you get to the end and the immediate thought is ‘That was a bit of a waste of time, wasn’t it?‘ followed by a trying-to-be-positive ‘It probably looked better on paper‘. Well, maybe. There is, indeed, a nice idea ripe for...
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It’s nearly a decade after an alien invasion, one initiated by flashes of destruction, continued by stealth and validated by collusion. The richest echelons of society have bribed their way to survival and are arguably going about their business just as before, but doing more to exploit the poor...
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Arthur Curry is an infant that shouldn’t exist. He’s the son of lighthouse keeper Tom Curry (Temuera Morrison) and Atlanna (Nicole Kidman), the fugitive queen-to-be of Atlantis. When Tom finds Atlanna severely injured on the coastline, he saves her and they fall in love, but despite the birth of...
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In 1986, young Adelaide strolls off from her parents while visiting a beachside funfair at Santa Cruz and finds herself entering a rundown funhouse, complete with a chamber of mirrors that don’t seem to be showing quite what they should. When her parents finally find her, she refuses to...
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There’s little doubt that the latest episode of Star Trek: Discovery looks beautiful, handled with grace and style by Hanelle M. Culpepper, who will also helm the opening episodes of the Picard spin-off (thus promising great things) . From shots of the ship’s interior to the wide open celestial...
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It was July last year when James Gunn was fired from his role as writer and director of the smash-hit Marvel movie franchise Guardians of the Galaxy. Disney apparently fired Gunn over a news report about terrible things he’d said on his blog a decade before. There was huge...
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Ahead of its much-anticipated debut next month and with confirmation that the Russo Brothers have locked their edit (rumoured to be over three hours, but we’ll see) – a new – likely final – trailer for Avengers: Endgame has arrived with some new footage and two key revelations: the...
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The Kree warrior known as Vers (Brie Larson) could be one of the best soldiers in the Supreme Intelligence’s attempts to keep the galaxy in order, though Vers is warned by her mentor Yonn-Rogg (Jude Law) that her emotions make her powers unstable and a risk to herself and...
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Jan-Michael Vincent, best known for his role as Stringfellow Hawke in 80s action-series Airwolf, and for a string of 90s action-thrillers has passed away at the age of 74. He made his on-screen debut in a supporting role in the 1967 tv film The Hardy Boys: The Mystery of...