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5/5
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Making Life on Earth: Attenborough's Greatest Adventure
(2026)
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Christopher Stevens
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Sitting at a desk and reading from his diaries, Sir David looks and sounds remarkably well for a chap just a fortnight away from his centenary.
Posted May 08, 2026
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4/5
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The Devil Wears Prada 2
(2026)
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Brian Viner
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The Devil Wears Prada 2 is smart and funny, and there are plenty of satisfying one-liners indicating how the world has changed in 20 years.
Posted May 01, 2026
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4/5
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Ultras
(2025)
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Brian Viner
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This is a warm, upbeat film which, rather wonderfully, finds common ground between the supporters of her beloved IFK Goteborg, the Indonesian club PSS Sleman, and our own Eastbourne Town.
Posted Apr 24, 2026
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4/5
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Exit 8
(2025)
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Brian Viner
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I'm sure it has deep existential meaning, but it's enough just to sit back and admire the craft of writer-director Genki Kawamura.
Posted Apr 24, 2026
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4/5
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Apex
(2026)
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Brian Viner
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It's fast-paced and gripping.
Posted Apr 24, 2026
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2/5
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Mother Mary
(2026)
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Brian Viner
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Writer-director David Lowery overdoes it.
Posted Apr 24, 2026
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2/5
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Michael
(2026)
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Brian Viner
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Director Antoine Fuqua and screenwriter John Logan tell Jackson's story without lumbering us with anything as challenging as nuance or ambiguity.
Posted Apr 24, 2026
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5/5
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Queen Elizabeth II: Her Story, Our Century
(2026)
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Christopher Stevens
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Trawling the palace archives for home cine-clips, Queen Elizabeth II: Her Story, Our Century discovered a scattering of previously unseen moments.
Posted Apr 23, 2026
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2/5
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Glenrothan
(2025)
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Brian Viner
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Cox and Henderson do their substantial best with the lacklustre material, but Cumming forgets to act his emotions, opting to semaphore them instead. His woefully hammy performance sums up the entire picture.
Posted Apr 17, 2026
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3/5
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Lee Cronin's The Mummy
(2026)
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Brian Viner
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The Mummy delights in making us expect something awful – and then showing us something a hundred times worse. Let's just say that you'll never look at toenails the same way again.
Posted Apr 17, 2026
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5/5
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California Schemin'
(2025)
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Brian Viner
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It tells a cracking story with terrific verve, and makes it impossible not to invest in these two pals.
Posted Apr 14, 2026
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1/5
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You, Me & Tuscany
(2026)
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Brian Viner
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The film's only solidity lies in the lovely Tuscan landscape. Everything else is hollow.
Posted Apr 14, 2026
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4/5
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Father Mother Sister Brother
(2025)
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Brian Viner
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It's a slow-moving film, but never less than thought-provoking.
Posted Apr 14, 2026
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3/5
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undertone
(2025)
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Brian Viner
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It's a decent debut by writer-director Ian Tuason – at least until it gets carried away in the final act.
Posted Apr 14, 2026
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4/5
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The Drama
(2026)
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Matthew Bond
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Zendaya is pitch-perfect as Emma, who can be charm personified when she’s in the right mood but has a steely determination underneath.
Posted Apr 07, 2026
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The Super Mario Galaxy Movie
(2026)
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Brian Viner
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When Galaxy lingers on one notion for more than five seconds – like the early sequence in which Mario and Luigi look after the Mushroom Kingdom in Peach's absence – you realise that this film's makers really do have love for the material.
Posted Apr 07, 2026
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3/5
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Fuze
(2025)
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Brian Viner
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The narrative goes bonkers, with so many twists, double-twists and betrayals, followed by a clunky comic flourish at the end, that on the way out I didn't even trust the cinema employee who said, with apparent sincerity: 'Have a good night'.
Posted Apr 07, 2026
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4/5
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The Drama
(2026)
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Brian Viner
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It is smartly written and directed, splendidly acted, and the premise is irresistibly naughty.
Posted Apr 07, 2026
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5/5
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Power: The Downfall of Huw Edwards
(2026)
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Christopher Stevens
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Clunes delivers an extraordinary portrayal that captures the body language, demeanour and menace of the man without descending into impersonation.
Posted Apr 01, 2026
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5/5
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The Magic Faraway Tree
(2026)
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Brian Viner
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The Magic Faraway Tree is an oak-solid family treat.
Posted Mar 30, 2026
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3/5
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Splitsville
(2025)
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Brian Viner
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It's never as funny as its writers seem to think it is, or as the insistent jazz soundtrack implies, but it bowls along engagingly enough.
Posted Mar 30, 2026
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2/5
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They Will Kill You
(2026)
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Brian Viner
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It's a comedy-horror in which a moderately suspenseful story is all too quickly possessed by abject silliness.
Posted Mar 30, 2026
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4/5
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Two Prosecutors
(2025)
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Brian Viner
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The violence in the Russian-language Two Prosecutors is mostly implied, but what a gripping, powerful and unsettling film it is.
Posted Mar 30, 2026
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3/5
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Broken English
(2025)
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Brian Viner
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A fascinating if at times pretentiously wacky documentary about the eventful life of Marianne Faithfull.
Posted Mar 23, 2026
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3/5
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Ready or Not 2: Here I Come
(2026)
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Brian Viner
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It's certainly riotous.
Posted Mar 23, 2026
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3/5
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Midwinter Break
(2026)
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Brian Viner
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Polly Findlay's film, adapted from Bernard MacLaverty's novel, is beautifully observed and exquisitely acted, but undeniably slow.
Posted Mar 23, 2026
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2/5
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Project Hail Mary
(2026)
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Brian Viner
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All the serious sci-fi soon becomes overwhelmed by slapstick, even featuring a whiskery Marx Brothers routine.
Posted Mar 23, 2026
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3/5
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Mr. Burton
(2025)
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Brian Viner
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This is all quite engaging and illuminating, and nicely evocative of time and place.
Posted Mar 19, 2026
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3/5
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The Tasters
(2025)
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Brian Viner
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It's perfectly watchable, but feels like a slightly strained attempt to find a new perspective on the Second World War.
Posted Mar 17, 2026
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4/5
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Turner & Constable
(2026)
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Brian Viner
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An absorbing documentary.
Posted Mar 16, 2026
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3/5
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One Last Deal
(2026)
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Brian Viner
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The narrative gets wildly overwrought and the film isn't in the same league as Locke, Steven Knight's riveting 2013 solo piece starring Tom Hardy. But fair's fair. At the end of the day, Dyer plays a blinder.
Posted Mar 16, 2026
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4/5
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Reminders of Him
(2026)
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Matthew Bond
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This shouldn’t really work, especially with a plot that strains at the medical seams. But it does.
Posted Mar 16, 2026
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2/5
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Reminders of Him
(2026)
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Brian Viner
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If it were any cheesier I’d feel obliged to warn off the lactose intolerant.
Posted Mar 16, 2026
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3/5
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How to Make a Killing
(2026)
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Matthew Bond
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Dheer familiarity limits our enjoyment of what ensues. But there’s still some fun to be had as Becket discovers that murder is complicated and Margaret Qualley always catches the eye as the enigmatic Julia.
Posted Mar 16, 2026
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2/5
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How to Make a Killing
(2026)
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Brian Viner
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It’s hard to know whether to call it a comedy, a thriller, a neo-noir or a melodrama. Let’s settle for… dud.
Posted Mar 16, 2026
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2/5
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THE BRIDE!
(2026)
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Larushka Ivan-Zadeh
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Not a monstrous disaster. More a case of something old, something new, something borrowed – but lacking glue.
Posted Mar 09, 2026
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4/5
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Molly vs The Machines
(2026)
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Christopher Stevens
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[A] rather artsy and stylised documentary
Posted Mar 05, 2026
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5/5
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The Dunblane Tapes
(2026)
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Christopher Stevens
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The grief and shock of parents, as news cameras arrived in the hours after the shooting, is still unbearable to watch, 30 years on.
Posted Mar 05, 2026
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4/5
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Molly vs The Machines
(2026)
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Brian Viner
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Molly vs The Machines is a powerful and timely documentary.
Posted Mar 05, 2026
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4/5
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Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man
(2026)
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Brian Viner
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The creator of Peaky Blinders, Steven Knight, has excelled himself -- and that’s a high bar of excellence -- with this gripping, high-octane story set during World War Two.
Posted Mar 05, 2026
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3/5
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Sirāt
(2025)
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Brian Viner
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The narrative seems set for a straightforward thriller about a man’s tenacious search for his child. But Spanish director Oliver Laxe has other ideas, crafting an increasingly surreal, weirdly watchable tale of dancing, drug-taking, sand and music.
Posted Mar 02, 2026
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2/5
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Scream 7
(2026)
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Brian Viner
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It’s a mix of the predictable and the preposterous.
Posted Mar 02, 2026
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3/5
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The Testament of Ann Lee
(2025)
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Brian Viner
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Amanda Seyfried gives a tremendously impressive and fiercely committed performance, maintaining a credible north-of-England accent throughout.
Posted Mar 02, 2026
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4/5
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Cecil: The Lion and the Dentist
(2026)
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Christopher Stevens
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A two-hour film shot with an aching sense of Africa's wild beauty.
Posted Feb 24, 2026
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5/5
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Cecil: The Lion and the Dentist
(2026)
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Claudia Connell
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Directed by Arthur Cary, the two-hour programme is utterly captivating and heartbreaking as it delves into the build-up to Cecil’s slaying and the fallout that followed.
Posted Feb 24, 2026
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3/5
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The Moment
(2026)
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Brian Viner
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It's certainly no Spinal Tap. But it's modestly engaging.
Posted Feb 24, 2026
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4/5
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Paul McCartney: Man on the Run
(2025)
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Brian Viner
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Director Morgan Neville tries to lift his film above the ordinary with some wacky editing, but doesn't really need to, because the material is so good.
Posted Feb 24, 2026
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4/5
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The Secret Agent
(2025)
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Brian Viner
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I was captivated from its fantastic opening scene.
Posted Feb 24, 2026
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4/5
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If I Had Legs I'd Kick You
(2025)
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Brian Viner
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It is a rewarding but crazy film. You will rarely spend a more exhausting 113 minutes sitting down.
Posted Feb 24, 2026
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4/5
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Wasteman
(2025)
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Brian Viner
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As all this unfolds, McMau builds the tension superbly.
Posted Feb 24, 2026
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