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The first Fast and Furious franchise spinoff does exactly what it says on the tin: two fan-favourite characters team up to fight a cybernetically enhanced super-soldier intent on speeding human evolution by...

This film was previously reviewed on 03/09/17 as part of Venice Film Festival. Paolo Virzi’s The Leisure Seeker wastes no time getting started. No sooner are we introduced to its world than we are...

Paolo Virzi’s The Leisure Seeker wastes no time getting started. No sooner are we introduced to its world than we are listening to a phone call of a son screaming at his sister that their sickly old parents...

1. Pokémon Go is go What the hell is Pokémon Go you ask? A social and technological phenomenon, Pokémon Go is a location-based augmented reality game based upon the Pokémon universe (yes, that's...

In capturing the inanity and immediacy of drone warfare, with its focus tipped toward political procrastination rather than military manoeuvres, Eye In The Sky is an effective entry into a timely...

Trumbo, despite its blacklist subject matter, keeps things light and irreverent with a wry screenplay, emphasising the absurdity of America’s Communist paranoia post-World War Two. Bryan Cranston has a...

Following in the vein of Simon Curtis' last feature My Week with Marilyn, Woman in Gold is a safe yet surprisingly moving film. Mirren is on startling form, delivering one-liners and thoughtful...

Last month we took a look at the somewhat odd, but not unwelcome, increase in films based on factual events. 221 such films have been released since 2000; 200 were released in the century before that. That...

Shakespeare. It's the most famous name in the English language, ringing proudly out across the British Isles. From his first works on stage around the 1590s to Joss Whedon's Much Ado About Nothing in 2012,...