• Worldswide web: Miles of thwip-smart spider fun…

    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...
  • Grindelwald’s Crimes: more a magical misdemeanor…

    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...
  • Skin in the Game: Spike Lee nails ‘BlackKklansman’…

    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...
  • Queen’s royal ‘Rhapsody’ will rock everything but the boat…

    It’s the 1970s and a million bands are created with their members hoping for stardom, but those dreams are about to come true for Brian May (Gwilym Lee) and Roger Taylor (Ben Hardy) when their band ‘Smile’ loses its lead singer and a fan named Freddie Mercury introduces himself...
  • Alienated: Why Venom is a Host without the Most…

    Eddie Brock (Tom Hardy) doesn’t have it all, but he has enough to get by.  His investigative-reporting has got him a gig with a significant financial-backer, his fiancée (Michelle Williams) has a tolerant attitude and a high-flying legal job and Brock is one major story away from the big...
  • Erased by Wolves? ‘Dark’ holds the tension and mood…

    Medora Slone (Riley Keogh) watches her son Bailey, playing in the snow outside their Alaskan cabin and notices a wolf at the edge of the property. When she returns from her cellar, there’s no sign of the infant and it appears that her son is the third child to...
  • Washington’s Sequalizer improves vigilante veneer…

    Returning from Turkey where he has managed to rescue a young girl from the father who has abducted her, Robert McCall (Denzel Washington) is looking forward to taking it easy. He can’t help himself from becoming involved in neighbourhood problems, but his solutions are more to do with finding...
  • McKinnon & Kunis bond with ‘Spy’ Fidelity…

    Audrey (Mila Kunis) is drowning her sorrows with best friend Morgan (Kate McKinnon) after Audrey’s boyfriend Drew (Justin Thereoux) dumps her by text. In the midst of therapeutically burning all his possessions, she’s unaware that he’s actually dodging assassins in Europe. When he attempts to make amends on his...
  • Netflix ‘Extinction’ isn’t quite DOA, but lacks a pulse…

    Peter (Michael Peña)  is having very bad dreams – where his city and his friends and neighbours are suddenly slain by an attack mounted by lights that come from the sky. His family (including wife Alice – Lizzy Caplan) and co-workers have tried to be supportive but the strains...
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