Film

Just a couple of reviews this week, both from my catch up on 2018 titles. Megan Leavey In this fact based drama, Kate Mara plays Megan Leavey, who, at 20, joins the Marines out of a sense that her life isn’t going anywhere. She ends up training as a dog handler, paired with a bomb clearing dog named Rex. Megan and Rex are injured while clearing a field of mines. In danger and with another dog unit hours away, they...

The first Lisbeth Salander story not to be penned by acclaimed nordic noir writer Stieg Larsson sees the return of the infamous kick-ass vigilante hacker in a film that sadly fails to measure up to its predecessors on almost every front. Directed by Fede Alvarez (Evil Dead) and adapted from David Lagercrantz’s 2015 novel of the same name, The Girl In The Spider’s Web stars Claire Foy (The Crown, First Man) in a role first made famous by Noomi Rapace, and later Rooney Mara.  Kicking off with a prologue...

A real-life robot based on homicidal HAL 9000 - the most terrifying computer in movie history - has been created by scientists

Using a technology featured in the cult sci-fi fantasy series, scientists say it combats both air - and noise - pollution

Thelma and Louise star Susan Sarandon dropped by Sara Leroy's gallery and bought eight of her 3D inspired art and prints.

High-octane action shots from the set of the upcoming The Fast and the Furious spin-off have emerged

The Nutcracker and the Four RealmsDisney’s latest would be blockbuster isn’t another live action remake of one of its animated classics. That’s not to say it’s particularly good though. This version of the fairytale perennial is based both on the story by ETA Hoffmann and the ballet by Tchaikovsky. It finds Clara (Mackenzie Foy) being given a magical key that used to belong to her late mother, which lets her into a magical world, where her mother was once queen....

Del (Peter Dinklage) is pretty sure he’s the last man on Earth. When we meet him there has been an unspecified catastrophe, in which it seems everyone simply collapsed and died. Del, alone, works his way around his nameless town, going house to house, cleaning up and burying the bodies he finds. One day he sees fireworks going off outside the library he used to work at and now makes his home in. This leads him to meet Grace (Elle...

The second instalment in J.K. Rowling’s five part Fantastic Beasts story sees director David Yates at the helm once again, in this well acted if ultimately lacklustre sequel to its critically acclaimed 2016 predecessor, which saw a welcome return to the magical Harry Potter universe. Set a year on from its predecessor, The Crimes Of Grindelwald opens in late 20s New York, where evil wizard Grindelwald has been languishing in an American Ministry of Magic prison, awaiting his trial. When he uses his dark arts to escape, Grindelwald makes his way...