Oscar-nominated epic shows three black women were key to the NASA space programme
Nikki Onafuye
“Yes they let women do things at Nasa, and it’s not because we wear skirts, it’s because we wear glasses.” A film about the untold story of three black women…
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New sci-fi drama Arrival is stunning and intelligent – review
Johanna Christoph
The new science-fiction film Arrival, directed by Denis Villeneuve (Sicario, Prisoners), is a capturing genre drama with more potential than first realised.
I, Daniel Blake Review: Painfully moving and unapologetic
“I, Daniel Blake”, Ken Loach’s stunning and distressing new drama, is a wake-up call and shows brutally honestly and poignantly the errors of the benefits system. Loach is known as…
Miss Peregrine: Bizarre fantasy with plotholes
The search for logic and answer is as wild and confusing as protagonist Jake’s stumbling through a time loop and landing in the year 1943, in the latest from Tim…
Anomalisa: Pretentious puppets are a let-down even during sex
Calvin Prickett
Coming from Being John Malkovich writer Charlie Kaufman, Anomalisa is a character study on the mundanity of middle-age, the fragility of the human psyche in the face of crippling loneliness,…
‘Wild’
Ida Salamonsen
Rating: 4/5 stars The cinema cringes. A screaming Reese Witherspoon has just pulled off a bloodied toe nail in the opening scene of Wild and thrown her shoes off a…
‘Taken 3’
Daniel Milroy Maher
Taken 3 shouldn’t be taken seriously, because it doesn’t take itself seriously. This is the best advice I can give to someone trying to approach the third installment in Olivier…
Review: The Woman in Black: Angel of Death
Eline Rilda
The Woman in Black: Angel of Death (2015) will definitely make your hands sweat, but the director has some nerve to call it a horror movie. The sequel, starring Phoebe…
Review: 12 Years a Slave
River Reporter
Brutal, honest and unmerciful, 12 Years A Slave is a biopic of the rarest kind.
Review: Frozen
The latest chilly treat from Disney will certainly warm you up this Christmas