22 September 2019
Like a lot of depressing movies, Ad Astra’s strong dose of melancholia may well aim at indirectly endorsing a reinvigorated engagement with life. Having administered its nihilistic fix, the film can nudge its audience
11 September 2019
While the first season of the Netflix original series Stranger Things can be recommended to anyone with a stomach for suspense and horror, the recently released third season will probably sit well with none but
27 August 2019
High-concept in setup and deliberately constricted in scope, I Am Mother weaves an assured if subtle kind of fascination through its small-scale yet suggestive coming-of-age drama. Recently released directly to Netflix (you will need a
11 July 2019
Rather like the ice cream cones on offer at amusement parks, Spider-Man: Far From Home does well what the Marvel movies do best: it delivers a surge of brand-standard superhero uplift, served this time
4 July 2019
Great in ambition, albeit modest in achievement, Yesterday sets for itself the apparently impossible task of making an out-of-this-world idea – what things would be like if almost no one remembered the Beatles –
18 June 2019
More often than not, it has been said, when someone sees good in something, he or she is probably right. Conversely, when one can only see what is bad, he or she is probably
3 June 2019
The film opens on a sequin-bedazzled devil striding boldly down a hallway. In the costume is the popstar Reginald Kenneth Dwight, better known by his stage alias, Elton Hercules John. At the end of
30 May 2019
On the Feast of the AscensionThe archetypal weeping figured notIn primal framing of drench’d sky and sea,Nor lonely Adam’s, help-meet unbegot,Nor daily drinkfall on the appletree.Heard not at nature’s howling mangerside,Felt not at wrenching
20 May 2019
Loosely based upon a spin-off video game of the same name, Pokémon Detective Pikachu is the first live-action installment in the multi-billion-dollar Pokémon franchise. Expanding over the last 25 years from video and card games
19 May 2016
A woman wants an adventure to share, not to be the adventure. So writes John Eldredge in Wild At Heart, the one-time American bestseller about how to be a manly Christian. The feasibility of generalising