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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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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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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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M. Night Shyamalan’s 1999 film The Sixth Sense was The Usual Suspects of the supernatural genre – rightly considered one of the most twisty, spooky, moody and ultimately satisfying thrillers of modern cinema and one that, two decades later, stands up to repeat viewing and ever-deeper scrutiny. It’s a big-screen...
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William Foster (Keanu Reeves) and Ed (Thomas Middleditch) are scientists working on transferring the human consciousness into new synthetic hosts, but their efforts have hit a brick-wall and their funding from Bionyne’s head honcho Jones (John Ortiz) is about to dry up. Despite the warnings from his wife Mona...
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A young woman named Malorie (Sandra Bullock) instructs two young children on the importance of following her rules to the letter. They can’t question her decisions. They can’t remove their blindfolds. If they do, they will die. The journey ahead will be difficult and they must literally hang on...
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Miles Morales (Shameik Moore) is a gifted kid, smart and instinctive and the winner of a scholarship that takes him out of his Brooklyn home to study at a local academy. But he feels somewhat adrift from the other richer and more confident students and his relationship with his...
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A year after his adventures in New York, circa late 1920s, Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne)’s brother Theseus (Callum Turner) hopes he can talk his sibling into formally joining the Ministry of Magic but Newt has no intention of taking sides in a climate that feels more like powerplay than...
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It’s the early 1970s and Ron Stallworth (John David Washington) makes the fateful decision to join the Colorado Springs Police Department. He will be their first black police-officer and though the Powers-That-Be seem to actively discourage him, he’s determined to make a difference, even if it means starting in...
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...
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...
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...
M. Night Shyamalan’s 1999 film The Sixth Sense was The Usual Suspects of the supernatural genre – rightly considered one of the most twisty, spooky, moody and ultimately satisfying thrillers of modern cinema and one that, two decades later, stands up to repeat viewing and ever-deeper scrutiny. It’s a big-screen...
William Foster (Keanu Reeves) and Ed (Thomas Middleditch) are scientists working on transferring the human consciousness into new synthetic hosts, but their efforts have hit a brick-wall and their funding from Bionyne’s head honcho Jones (John Ortiz) is about to dry up. Despite the warnings from his wife Mona...
A young woman named Malorie (Sandra Bullock) instructs two young children on the importance of following her rules to the letter. They can’t question her decisions. They can’t remove their blindfolds. If they do, they will die. The journey ahead will be difficult and they must literally hang on...
Miles Morales (Shameik Moore) is a gifted kid, smart and instinctive and the winner of a scholarship that takes him out of his Brooklyn home to study at a local academy. But he feels somewhat adrift from the other richer and more confident students and his relationship with his...
A year after his adventures in New York, circa late 1920s, Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne)’s brother Theseus (Callum Turner) hopes he can talk his sibling into formally joining the Ministry of Magic but Newt has no intention of taking sides in a climate that feels more like powerplay than...
It’s the early 1970s and Ron Stallworth (John David Washington) makes the fateful decision to join the Colorado Springs Police Department. He will be their first black police-officer and though the Powers-That-Be seem to actively discourage him, he’s determined to make a difference, even if it means starting in...
Michael Connelly often has his finger on the pulse of interesting issues, but reading a preview copy of The Proving Ground in a week where the dangers of AI,...
I’ll be honest: I’m a sucker for a good cat-and-mouse story and in this era of fast-evolving tech and surveillance, characters staying one step ahead of their pursuers can...
I had mixed feelings about watching Good Boy. On one hand, I’d heard nothing but good things about this off-kiltered horror entry even before its debut at the 2025...
As we are told multiple times during the latest (and ‘final’) entry in the big-screen Mission Impossible franchise juggernaut, ‘timing is everything…‘. That may be the case, but time...