Author James Andrews

Critiquing an X-Men film is now all relative, given how increasingly hit and miss the series has become – but after the nadir of 2016's Apocalypse, Dark Phoenix proves a pleasant surprise. While not hitting...

As the "will they, won't they?" saga of the X-Men's migration into the Marvel Cinematic Universe continues following Disney's takeover of Fox, the mutant franchise returns for what could be the final go-around...

Two decades on, The Phantom Menace remains the most infamously maligned entry in the ever-expanding Star Wars series. Following the beloved saga's hyped return in 1999 with a monumental and highly marketed...

To be the DCEU's brightest, funniest film so far is a pretty low bar, but Shazam! clears it effortlessly. The story of a 14-year-old boy suddenly becoming endowed with superhuman powers is ripe with comedic...

Wrack your brains for somewhere the DC Extended Universe has beaten its rival, Marvel, and you will probably land on Wonder Woman. As well as reintroducing female-led superhero movies after Elektra in 2005, it...

Wrestlers have a long tradition of going from the ring to the big screen, from Hulk Hogan and Roddy Piper to Dave Bautista and John Cena. Then of course there's The Rock, who produces and appears as himself in...

Steve Carell continues his fine run of dramatic turns in this seemingly whimsical yet serious study of trauma. He portrays Mark Hogancamp, an artist badly beaten in a gang assault who creates his own therapy...

'Kurt Russell as Santa' is as simple yet intriguing an elevator pitch as any, and in Netflix's latest festive original movie The Christmas Chronicles - it works. Unfortunately, not a lot else does in this...

After a dragon tattoo (twice), a fire and a hornet's nest, this time it's The Girl in the Spider's Web. And now the girl is The Crown's Claire Foy – breaking well and truly away from the part she's best...

A British comedy horror with Simon Pegg and Nick Frost in? (And the debut for their production firm Stolen Picture?) The Shaun of the Dead comparisons are inevitable, but Slaughterhouse Rulez is a different...

Screenwriter extraordinaire Drew Goddard (Cloverfield, World War Z, The Martian) is back with his second feature as a director, Bad Times at the El Royale. His latest finds a group of strangers unravelling a...

How much you laughed at the first two Johnny English films will be a good barometer for your enjoyment level of this belated third mission. Strikes Again does little to break from the series' established...

As Rowan Atkinson returns this week for a third Johnny English film that no-one really asked for, it seems inevitable that this unlikely franchise (based around a character created for a '90s Barclaycard ad...

Director Lenny Abrahamson follows his Oscar-nominated Room by opening things up to a mansion with this period Gothic mystery. Said mansion is the dilapidated Hundreds Hall in post-War rural Warwickshire, and...

"You've come a very long way in a very short time." So says another character to Oscar Isaac's Abel Morales in A Most Violent Year. The same could well be said about the actor himself. As recently as 2012 you...