Thunder Force
With evil mutants wreaking havoc on Chicago, two estranged school friends (real life pals Melissa McCarthy and Octavia Spencer) team up to defeat them, with the help of super-strength, invisibility […]
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The Trial of the Chicago 7
It would be easy to forget the Oscars are still going ahead this year, despite the best efforts of coronavirus and Godzilla vs. Kong. Currently trailing Nomadland in the Best […]
Shadow
An uneasy peace treaty has left a prized city in the hands of the Yang, humiliating their rivals, the Pei, whose weak and impulsive king (Zheng Kai) is reluctant to […]
David Baddiel: Jews Don’t Count
In a week when 200 academics have come out (anonymously) in support of antisemitic lecturer David Miller, David Baddiel seems to be onto something with his new book Jews Don’t […]
Max Richter’s Sleep
This documentary explores Sleep by minimalist composer Max Richter, designed to be performed over night to a snoring audience. Beginning and ending with an open air performance in LA’s Grand […]
Soul
After falling down a manhole, music teacher and jazz pianist Joe (Jamie Foxx) is late for his dream gig, both in terms of being dead and in the sense of […]
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
It is tragic how good Chadwick Boseman is in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, a 2020 drama based on the eponymous “Mother of the Blues” (Viola Davis) who became one of […]
Carlito’s Way
Kooky ex-con Carlito (Al Pacino) is released from prison, vowing to live life within the law from now on. Unfortunately for him he gets drawn back into crime like Rocky […]
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
A year after they flew to Paris without their son at Christmas, the world’s worst parents do it again, this time jetting off to Florida with their impractically large extended […]
Moana
Moana (newcomer AuliÊ»i Cravalho) is next in line to be chief on her tribe’s small island. But when food shortages loom she goes against her family’s cautious customs in search […]
