Reviews

Films are rarely as ideally timed as The Coach

Moving and reliably engaging for all ages and those anywhere and everywhere who love dogs

War epics more often than not revolve around the key or decisive battles, the grand, sweeping calls to arms or the impact, whatever it may be, of victory and defeat. Not this one

Documentaries can recount, expound or explain so much – but it’s always better when they’re right there

Speculative, notional sci-fi, usually the domain of more abstract offerings, aren’t often melded with kids flicks. Thankfully, there were a few gutsy earthlings willing to give it a go

Have you ever wanted to be scared by one of those old spook houses before they went out of fashion?

It’s rare you see something so powerful emerge from that so inscrutable

Packing more furrowed-brow acting into a film than you are ever likely to see, The Guilty is a reliably mood-driven Danish thriller

Have you ever noticed how many flicks have a passing, momentary or even not insignificant shot of the starry sky?

Aga is first and foremost and in more than one respect a beautiful film

As curious as it is frequently infuriating, Three Identical Strangers takes its fascinating subject(s) to altogether captivating places.

Nicolas Cage: The Movie is here. That’s right, internet; you spoke, and the film Gods heard you

If you’re an Alfred Hitchcock fan, you’ve probably noticed that Vertigo has gone up in the public’s estimation

“If we’re kind and polite, the world will be right.”

The presence of the ever-talented Joaquin Phoenix is enough to recommend a movie, even this one

“You cannot laugh and be afraid at the same time, and the devil cannot stand mockery.”