Directed by Antoine Fuqua and produced, pointedly, by the executors of the Michael Jackson estate, John Branca and John McClain, this is a biopic that arrives with a seating plan already arranged and a guest list that has been very deliberately curated. The question the film can't quite escape, no matter how spectacular the staging or how extraordinary the central performance, is: are we watching someone's life story, or someone's preferred version of it?

There's something both tender and faintly unhinged about the premise of Alphabet Lane . A couple, marooned in the open silence of rural New South Wales, begin writing letters to imaginary friends. Not as therapy. Not as a creative exercise. Just because what else are you going to do out there? It's a genuinely great idea. And James Litchfield, in his debut feature, knows it is. Anna (Tilda Cobham-Hervey) and Jack (Nicholas Denton) have just moved from Sydney to a remote corne

For years “The Quiet Man” stood in Flemington as a beacon to the old world of familiar Irish comforts, but now it’s evolved into two sublime venues under one roof and very much under the one flag....

There are films that ask big questions about the universe. And then there's Project Hail Mary, which asks the biggest question a story can possibly ask; what does it mean to find a friend? All while set in the middle of deep space, answering it with a puppet, and somehow making you cry in public about it all....

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There's a particular kind of darkness that only comedy can access. Not the jump-scare darkness, not the grinding bleakness of an arthouse drama about suffering. The darkness that arrives wearing a good suit, cracking a joke, and then quietly hands you a document that proves the whole system is rigged — and has been for decades....

There are films that take their time. And then there’s Anenome, which takes its time the way a man who has never once talked about his feelings takes his time; slowly, quietly, occasionally with long silences that deafeningly speak volumes. You’ve been warned. Anemone is that film deeply uninterested in your comfort. The first extraordinary thing about it is something that exists entirely outside the frame: this screenplay was written by Daniel Day-Lewis, eight years into his

This is not a film that will grab you by the collar. It won't chase you down with a hook or dazzle you into submission in the first five minutes. What it will do — if you let it — is pull up a chair, sit across from you, and wait. Patiently. With the particular stillness of someone who has been through something and no longer feels the need to fill the silence. Whether you find that deeply affecting or mildly maddening will tell you a lot about where you're at right now, and

There are two kinds of people in the world: those who think Wuthering Heights is the greatest gothic romance ever written, and those who think it’s a 19th-century instruction manual for emotionally avoidant chaos. Emerald Fennell’s new film politely refuses to referee that argument by tossing you onto the moors, handing you a candle, and wishing you “good luck” with your feelings and triggers....

Baz Luhrmann has made a career out of turning biography into fireworks. However in EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert, he does something sneakier: he builds a cathedral out of sound and then lets Elvis Presley walk in and casually remind you he was never just “a legend”, but a working musician with lethal timing, charisma for days, and a surprisingly sharp wit.....

If your brain treats bedtime like an open-mic night (special guest: every thought you’ve ever had), sleep audio meditations can be a genuinely useful, low-effort way to downshift.....

There are two ways to stage Saturday Night Fever: you can treat it like a karaoke museum exhibit where everyone politely cosplays the film…

The History of Sound is being sold as a World War I drama, but honestly, the war is mostly the studio’s way of tricking straight men into buying tickets to a queer folk-music romance. The trenches are off-screen; what we get instead is something much more interesting: a film about how we record each other – on wax, on paper, in memory – and how those recordings lie, distort and occasionally save us.

The Emerald City may still run on lies, but this sequel at least tells the truth about what they cost.....

Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the paddock, Jurassic World: Rebirth stomps into cinemas with all the cinematic subtlety of a charging T. rex and, somehow, manages to make it feel like the chaos was entirely worth it.....

Just when you thought it was safe to turn your smart speaker back on, M3GAN 2.0 boots up—and this time, she’s sassier, smarter, and a little less murdery… but only just.

Let’s be honest: when you hear “F1 movie,” your brain might instinctively reach for earplugs and brace for two hours of high-octane engine sounds and blokes in branded overalls talking about tyre pressure.....

There are films that waddle into your heart unexpectedly — The Penguin Lessons is one of them....

A Minecraft Movie is a gloriously silly, lovingly made romp that doesn’t pretend to be anything other than what it is....

Rarely does a film aimed at primary-schoolers manage to transform a cinema into a zen garden, but DogMan pulls it off with tail-wagging...