Review – ‘Life Itself’ is maudlin nonsense that will exhaust even the most patient of viewers
Oscar Isaac, Olivia Wilde and other famous faces slum it in Life Itself, which is an awful drama from This Is Us creator Dan Fogelman.
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Rating: Poop
Review – ‘Mortal Engines’ is an exercise in snoozepunk
Peter Jackson writes and produces YA adaptation Mortal Engines, in which Hugo Weaving gets villainous at the helm of a predator city.
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Review – Lars von Trier shows us his rotten soul in ‘The House That Jack Built’
Cinema’s top provocateur Lars von Trier delivers something very personal with the distasteful serial killer epic The House That Jack Built.
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Review – Technically stunning ‘Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle’ lacks identity
Andy Serkis’s long-gestating take on The Jungle Book has finally arrived, but Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle has a great deal of problems.
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DVD Review – ‘The Equalizer 2’ is a flat, jumbled action sequel
Denzel Washington stars in his first ever sequel with Equalizer 2, but leaves you wondering why this caused him to break his golden rule.
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Review – ‘The Girl in the Spider’s Web’ brings Lisbeth back with a whimper
Claire Foy takes up the mantle of hacker vigilante Lisbeth Salander in Fede Alvarez’s soft reboot The Girl in the Spider’s Web.
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Review – The latest ‘Robin Hood’ is a bizarre update of the classic tale
Taron Egerton dons a hood and wields a bow and arrow as the iconic outlaw Robin Hood in this weird new take on the material.
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Review – ‘The Grinch’ is charmless enough to make misers of us all
Benedict Cumberbatch voices the Christmas-hating title character in Illumination Entertainment’s new animated take on The Grinch.
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Review – ‘The Nutcracker and the Four Realms’ is bubblegum balderdash
Mackenzie Foy takes the lead in fantasy adventure Nutcracker and the Four Realms, which also stars Keira Knightley and Helen Mirren.
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Review – Keanu Reeves snoozes with the audience throughout ‘Siberia’
Keanu Reeves looks as bored as his audience throughout crime thriller Siberia, which is a chilly and overly serious trudge.
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Review – ‘Slaughterhouse Rulez’ skewers boarding school snobbery, but has little horror edge
Simon Pegg and Nick Frost are the producers behind Slaughterhouse Rulez, which is a below par horror-comedy.
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