• Fallout – Impossible’s re:mission position…

    Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise)’s new mission, should he choose to accept it, is to stop the sale of three spheres of plutonium that could wreak havoc if detonated. What’s left of the IMF’s opposite numbers /nemesis-organisation ‘The Syndicate’ is infusing itself with an even more extreme set of zealots,...
  • Apocalypse, Meh: ‘How it Ends’ is a road to nowhere…

    Seattle-based Will (Theo James) and his fiancée Samantha  (Kat Graham) have just found out she’s expecting their baby. When Will is on a business trip to Chicago, he decides to visit Sam’s parents and formally tell them the couple are planning to get married. Sam’s mother (Nicole Ari Parker)...
  • Bugs Bonne: ‘Ant Man & the Wasp’ – more buzz than sting…

    Ex-con and sometime adventurer Scott Lang (Paul Rudd) is days away from completing his two years of house-arrest after illegally helping the fugitive Captain America (during the events of Civil War). But a strange vision of the sub-atomic world he barely escaped during his first outing in the insectoid...
  • Fallen Kingdom: Talking about a Devolution…

    The island of Isla Nubar is about to be destroyed by volcanic activity and despite pressure to save the surviving dinosaurs, the world seems to have decided that nature is putting right what man got wrong and that the creatures will be allowed to perish.  That sits perfectly well...
  • Howard grants ‘Solo’ a little Serenity…

    Han is a young man with a plan – several in fact – and all of them involve he and his companion Qi’ra getting off the backward planet of Correlia. But plans don’t always work out and though the skilled but errant flyboy manages to get off-world he’s forced...
  • Game On: Spielberg’s latest is ‘Ready’: Willing and able…

    It’s Ohio, 2045, though geography and time probably have little of importance as most people are focussed on the virtual-reality of the Oasis, a global network that offers an alternative to their often humdrum existence. Why go to a boring desk job if you can journey to any landscape,...
  • A Brine Romance: ‘The Shape of Water’ is Amphabulous…

    Eliza Esposito (Sally Hawkins) lives a lonely life – dividing her time between her apartment above an old movie theater, doughnut breaks with neighbour Giles (Richard Jenkins) and her lowly job as a cleaner at a research facility hidden deep beneath Baltimore. She’s almost reconciled to the fact that...
  • Ripping Yarn: ‘Limehouse Golem’ stages a bloody tale…

    London in the late 1800s, a few years before Jack the Ripper will cut his way through the back-streets. But another monster is already there, apparently randomly murdering men, women and children and nicknmaed the ‘Limehouse Golem’ by the local rags. It’s a moniker the killer seems to have...
  • Claw & Order: Netflix’s latest: ‘Bright’ Lights, Bit Iffy…..

    In an alternative 2017 the modern world has many of our tried and tested problems – but with a twist. Over the last millennia, the magic world of Orcs, faeries, trolls and elves has become part of the social strata. Elves tend to be the high-flying successes at business,...
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