Cinema

Star-studded cast take centre-stage as Dumbo remake enters the director’s dark world of CGI Dumbo (15) Running time 1hr 52min Rating: ** FAMILY-oriented…

Family confronted by its evil doppelgängers in Jordan Peele’s disquieting and subversive allegory Us (15) Running time 1hr 56min Rating **** JORDAN Peele…

Captain Marvel caught in a war between two alien races Captain Marvel (12A) Running time 2hr 4 min Rating: *** CAPTAIN Marvel makes for a very peculiar…

Wrestling biopic Fighting With My Family Fighting with My Family (12A) Running time 1hr 48min Rating: *** STRANGE little film, this. The Stephen Merchant-directed…

COLD PURSUIT: snowplough driver seeks revenge against drug dealers he thinks killed his son Cold Pursuit (15) Running time 1hr 15min Rating: *** ONE might…

Happy Death Day 2U 2017’s HAPPY Death Day was an odd one, a slasher ‘parody’ lacking anything in the way of the satirical toolset that…

Alita: Battle Angel is a portrait of post-apocalyptic soullessness Alita: Battle Angel (12A) Running time 2hr 2min Rating: ** ALITA: Battle Angel is the…

Celebrity biographer Lee Israel falls out of step with current tastes and turns her art form to deception in Can You EveForgive Me? Can You Ever Forgive…

Vice: The story of Dick Cheney, unassuming bureaucratic Washington insider, who quietly wielded immense power as Vice President to George W Bush Vice…

Part three of the Eastrail 177 trilogy: Glass Glass (15) Running time 2hr 9min Rating: ** M NIGHT Shyamalan is living proof that a good concept does not…

Steve Coogan and John C Reilly a dream team in the Laurel & Hardy biopic Stan & Ollie. Stan & Ollie (PG) Running time 1hr 37min Rating **** CAN you…

Welcome to Marwen Welcome to Marwen (12A) Running time 1hr 56min Rating: ** WELCOME to Marwen is the sort of project Charlie Kaufman might’ve gobbled…

Bumblebee: Autobot on the run Bumblebee (PG) Running time 1hr 54min Rating: **** EARLY in 2018, Paramount announced they were finally getting their act…

Musclebound Jason Momoa, Justice League superhero swims alone in Aquaman Aquaman (PG-13) Running time 2hr 23min Rating: ** DC, it seemed, was setting…

Disney’s Mary Poppins Returns with a spoonful of nostalgia Mary Poppins Returns (U) Running time 2hr 10min Rating: **** THE sheer technicolour whimsy…

Creed II (12A): Running time 2hr 10min: Rating: **** WHILE everyone remembers the training montages and ringside action, the true appeal of the Rocky…

Home Alone (PG): Running time 1hr 43min: Rating **** JUST as the Christmas advert, that bewildering staple of the Yuletide airwaves, is beginning to…

'A couple of decent performances don't make a decent Hood adventure' Robin Hood (12A) Running time 2hr 20min Rating: ** SAY what you will about last year’s…

Grindelwald and his menacing band of men seek to enslave the Muggle world. Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of…

Peterloo: the 1819 massacre of working-class Manchester rallyists THE story of the 1819 Peterloo massacre, which saw the deaths of some 15 radical demonstrators…