Film Review

Ironically, for a film whose eponymous character’s autism equips him with an almost supernatural talent for mathematics, something about this movie just doesn’t add up! The Accountant is centred around Ben Affleck’s character, Christian Wolff, who has autism, echoing that of Dustin Hoffman’s portrayal of Raymond Babbitt in 1988’s...

Another brilliantly dark psychological thriller has been adapted for the big screen, and The Girl on the Train has lived up to its popularity as a novel, working excellently in film form. The build-up and reveal of the plot is very well done, and it keeps all the best...

Not all books work as films. Sometimes a film adaptation of a book doesn’t quite work (I know, I know, shocking. I never thought I’d hear myself say it). We all want our favourite stories to come to life on screen but sometimes, it is not the right format...

Bridget Jones’ Baby is the long-awaited sequel in the Bridget Jones saga, and it does not disappoint. Far too much of the focus in the upcoming movie has been on Renée Zellweger’s face, which is ridiculous given her completely sublime acting that had the cinema audience falling back in...

Romance + disability + convention = cloyingly saccharine + Emilia Clarke = heart-warmingly sweet.  That’s the formula upon which Me Before You is built. Mawkishly and expectedly drowning out its audience with old-fashioned sentimentality, but doing it with Emilia Clarke at your service, is the best way of reversing that...

Last night she dreamed she was pregnant. She dreamed she was giving birth. The doctors handed her the new-born in a blanket. It was her dog. A Rat Terrier, specifically. But of course for the dog to come out, the doctors had needed to get the dog in first....

In a year where the superhero genre has arguably hit the heights of greatness (Captain America: Civil War) and the depths of the cesspit (Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice), X-Men: Apocalypse provides a safe middling entry to the list. The weakest of Bryan Singer’s four contributions to the...