Opinion

This article contains spoilers for Avengers: Endgame  What do you mean critiques? It’s the epic crowning glory of the biggest franchise experiment in film history! Twenty-one films of character...

The beauty of a cinematic universe is that it contains someone for everyone. But if the MCU had anyone close to being a universal fan favourite, Asgard’s most slippery adopted son was it. Loki's charms made...

Poor Black Widow. Introduced as a skin-tight catsuit, deemed a "monster" for her infertility, and finally sacrificed in favour of a grief-stricken revenge murderer who happens to be a dad. She doesn’t even...

Andrew Garfield was too handsome to be a superhero. This has never been a problem for any actor in the history of Hollywood, but it ended up being one of several factors that doomed the short-lived Amazing...

It’s a big ask, being brought back from the past to save half the universe from a Mad Titan. As if that wasn't enough, the woman behind Captain Marvel is flexing her own muscles to drive change for women...

Nobody expected The LEGO Movie to be anything more than a 90-minute commercial for the bricks it was based on. But, in a move that has quickly becoming their trademark, directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller...

You're already up to date, I'm sure. Mostly because, even if you weren't up to date, everything's gone back to normal anyway so it doesn't matter. Recap: After warning last year that the 91st Academy...

Tinseltown and its suburbs, Film Twitter, are in uproar this week. The awarding of Best Cinematography, Best Makeup and Hairstyling, Best Film Editing and Best Live Action Short are all to be done during...

This week sees the UK release of On the Basis of Sex, a biopic covering the education and early court cases of esteemed US Supreme Court Justice and living legend Ruth Bader Ginsberg. It joins a long line of...

10 years ago, Bradley Cooper may as well have been nobody. Then he starred in The Hangover. Then... uh... The Hangover 2. But six brief years since his "serious film" breakout Silver Linings Playbook, the...

Roughly a third of the way through Colette, currently in UK cinemas, Keira Knightley’s titular author muses that ‘the hand that holds the pen writes history.’ This line – featured prominently in the...

It is the beginning of Pride and Prejudice. The protagonist, Elizabeth Bennett (Keira Knightley), is reading a book as she walks through the English countryside. The house comes alive not because it’s been...

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom came roaring into cinemas last week, with our Phil calling the sequel/fifth outing 'an entertaining ride... with a fun B-movie premise, decently executed'. Generally good...

Everyone has been in the situation: movie night in with your friends, eating popcorn, laughing and joking. The opening titles start and the protagonists appear. Halfway through, you find yourself elbowing the...

This weekend saw the release of Solo: A Star Wars Story, an origin story which stars Alden Ehrenreich as the eponymous smuggler and answers some of the burning questions that Star Wars fans have asked for...