UNDER SALT MARSH

This moody, slow burn crime drama leans heavily into its wow factor landscapes.The fictional Welsh coastal town of Morfa Halen, constantly battered by floods and relentless waves, feels a little overplayed, but it does help build urgency and tension as the investigation unfolds. Former detective turned teacher Jackie Ellis (Kelly Reilly), brings an unblinking stare […]

COLD STORAGE

Based on the 2019 novel by David Koepp, this sci-fi horror stars Joe Keery as Travis “Teacake” Meacham and Georgina Campbell as Naomi Williams. Decades ago the US military locked a green fungus sample from a crashed space probe away in an underground bunker. Cut to the present day and the facility has been repurposed […]

CASE 137

Stephanie Bertrand (the fabulous Lea Drucker) is an experienced inspector for the IGPN, the French police internal affairs unit. Set during the 2018 Yellow Vest protests in Paris, Stephanie investigates the serious injury of a young demonstrator, Guillaume Girard (Come Peronnet), who was struck in the head at close range by a police rubber bullet. […]

COUTURE

In the frenzied days leading up to Paris Fashion Week, independent filmmaker Maxine Walker (Angelina Jolie) arrives in the city to direct a short film for a glamorous fashion house. When she receives a sudden breast cancer diagnosis, she is forced to juggle her intense workload with the weight of her health news. Her journey […]

SCARPETTA

This adaptation of the popular Patricia Cornwell novels, starring Nicole Kidman as forensic pathologist Kay Scarpetta, poorly mashes together two books (#1 and #25) set three decades apart. Four adults share Scarpetta’s house, including her husband Benton Wesley (Simon Baker), her sister Dorothy (Jamie Lee Curtis), and Dorothy’s husband Peter Marino (Bobby Cannavale), with Scarpetta […]

WAR MACHINE

Mason (Alan Ritchson) is a grieving soldier who joins the elite 75th Ranger Regiment selection programme two years after the death of his brother in the line of duty. After a gruelling series of tests only twenty trainees make it through to the last stage of the selection process. They are dropped into the remote […]

THE BEAUTY – “One shot makes you hot”

Ryan Murphy’s latest offering opens with supermodel Bella Hadid literally exploding onto the screen. An injectable drug owned by ruthless tech billionaire Byron Frost( Ashton Kutcher) metamorphoses users from average looks into younger, physically perfect versions of themselves, while secretly acting as a ticking time bomb for spontaneous combustion. When the drug causes a virus […]

HOW TO MAKE A KILLING

Loosely based on the 1949 film ‘Kind Hearts and Coronets’ but brought forward to a present day setting, Glen Powell stars as Becket Redfellow, a blue collar worker living a modest life as a tailors assistant. The opening scene shows him condemned on death row, spending his final four hours downloading his tale of woe […]

IN THE BLINK OF AN EYE

This film shares three entwined stories that explore the cycle of human evolution and connection. Moving through the prehistoric past, the present day, and a distant future, each segment covers several decades. In the past, Neanderthal family Thorn (Jorge Vargas), Hera (Tanaya Beatty) and their two young children are struggling to survive the end of […]

THE NIGHT MANAGER: SEASON 2

This season brings back Tom Hiddleston as Jonathan Pine with all the stiff restraint, moral fatigue and L-plate spy skills that made the first season an interesting watch. While the production and locations are big and full, the storytelling isn’t and at times it feels rinsed and repeated. One of the immediate gaps is the […]