Joe Jones

Steven Spielberg offers a solid but safe spy thriller concerning the true story of James B. Donovan (Tom Hanks), an American insurance lawyer commissioned to defend suspected Russian spy Rudolf Abel (Mark Rylance) in court. Donovan takes to this thankless task with vigour and is soon criticised for doing...

Todd Haynes’ Carol, a stunning adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s 1952 novel, broaches forbidden love in fifties New York, and brings to our screens a truly beautiful film that bridges arthouse and Hollywood. We meet Carol (Cate Blanchett) and Therese (Rooney Mara) by chance in a high-society 1950’s establishment, as...

John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men is a tale of two unlikely friends, George and Lennie, who move from ranch to ranch across California in search of work, and their dream to “live off the fat of the land”. Decades after its first stint on Broadway, this twentieth century American...

The first season of Jessica Jones, the next television series set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (which also includes blockbuster superheroes such as the Avengers) has been released exclusively on Netflix. For Marvel fans, the build-up to this series has been very exciting, with increasing numbers of trailers and...

Picking up seamlessly from where Part 1 left off, Mockingjay Part 2 follows Katniss (Jennifer Lawrence) in her campaign to kill President Snow (Donald Sutherland), and the fight against the Capitol.  While the previous films focused on the politics of the Hunger Games, Mockingjay Part 2 is an epic display of...

The trailer is here for Allegiant, the penultimate film in the action-packed Divergent series, starring Shailene Woodley and Theo James. After the events of Divergent and Insurgent, the faction system has crumbled and there are more questions than answers. As individuals from the city finally leave its walls to...

The Lobster is one of the strangest, most surreal and original films I have ever seen. It’s set in a dystopian society where single people are sent to a hotel to find a partner within forty-five days. If you fail, you will be transformed into an animal of your...