Showing Type: Film

This is very much an Irish Braveheart, and is intense, timely and terrific with elegant cinematography, stirring soundtrack and thrilling shoot-outs. A taut, often violent drama with a powerhouse of a cast.

A snobbish investor and a wily street con artist find their positions reversed as part of a bet by two callous millionaires. This blatant, unacknowledged reworking of The Prince and the Pauper is a rattling comedy showcase for the unique talents of Eddie Murphy and Dan Aykroyd, who have seldom recaptured the form they show here.

Four Lions is a comic tour de force; it shows that -while terrorism is about ideology- it can also be about idiots.

This was the first Ealing comedy to be made in colour. Faced with the loss of their beloved railway, a local village rally together to help it compete against the rival bus company. With a motley crew now running the train, each with their own ideas, can they keep train company alive?

Featuring family videos, archive footage and plenty of interviews with his wives, daughters, partners, business colleagues, opera writers and other musicians, Ron Howard’s film tells the story of a charismatic man who was born with a gift, and devoted his life to sharing it with as many people as possible.

Powered by an intriguing story and a pair of outstanding performances from Jessica Chastain and Idris Elba, Molly’s Game marks a solid debut for writer-director Aaron Sorkin.

Yesterday is a a total joy of a film that cements Danny Boyle and Richard Curtis as master storytellers of our time, as well as Himesh Patel as a rising talent who has limitless potential on display.

Heart-warming, funny, and beautifully animated, Toy Story is a perfect animated saga. Adults and kids alike will find the film’s mix of comedy and pathos hard to resist

Red Joan stars Judi Dench who plays a former Soviet spy, in a film inspired by the case of Melita Norwood, a British civil servant who was revealed to have provided nuclear secrets to the Soviets and only unmasked when she was well into her eighties.

The Keeper delivers far more than what is expected from it, both tonally and aesthetically, and is hugely watchable, not least thanks to its extremely likeable cast.