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One Battle After Another
Aren’t you tired of fighting? Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another comes along at a time in world history in which conflict seems to be the daily duty, turning Thomas Pynchon’s ’80s-set Vineland into a deeply humanist story of rebellion. At the heart of One Battle After Another is Bob Ferguson (Leonardo DiCaprio), a washed-up revolutionary living off the grid with his daughter Willa (Chase Infiniti). When Bob’s nemesis Lockjaw (Sean Penn) resurfaces after sixteen y

Paul Gainey
Mar 23 min read


Neil Warnock
In Are You with Me?, Neil Warnock reflects on more than six decades in the game — from lower-league beginnings to a record-breaking managerial career spanning 16 clubs, eight promotions and countless controversies, told with his trademark candour and humour.

Paul Gainey
Feb 272 min read


F1 — The Movie
Brad Pitt leads a high-octane racing blockbuster that channels Top Gun: Maverick’s adrenaline and style, delivering visceral on-track spectacle and surprisingly engaging drama off it — complete with commentary that makes the action feel thrillingly real.

Paul Gainey
Feb 271 min read


The Naked Gun Returns
Liam Neeson steps into the role of Frank Drebin Jr in a riotously funny reboot of The Naked Gun, delivering deadpan absurdity, rapid-fire gags, and a loving tribute to the classic comedy franchise.

Paul Gainey
Feb 272 min read


A Real Pain
Jesse Eisenberg’s A Real Pain follows two mismatched cousins on a Holocaust heritage tour, blending sharp humour and raw emotion in a poignant exploration of grief, identity, and generational trauma.

Paul Gainey
Feb 272 min read


The Ballad of Wallis Island
A poignant and quietly funny gem, The Ballad of Wallis Island follows a lonely widower’s attempt to reunite a fractured folk duo, blending absurd humour with a tender meditation on music, loss, and hope.

Paul Gainey
Feb 272 min read


Say Nothing
Based on Patrick Radden Keefe’s book, Say Nothing is a fearless drama that delves into the minds of IRA members during the Troubles, blending tense storytelling with intimate reflections on conviction, violence, and regret.

Paul Gainey
Feb 271 min read


Steve (Netflix)
Max Porter’s Steve, starring Cillian Murphy, reframes his novella from a troubled teen’s inner chaos to the perspective of a weary headteacher, creating a poignant drama about compassion, crisis, and the fragile lives of ‘beautiful, terrible boys.

Paul Gainey
Feb 272 min read


H Is for Hawk
Philippa Lowthorpe’s H Is for Hawk explores grief through the unusual bond between a woman and the goshawk she trains, offering a haunting, unresolved meditation on loss, nature, and healing.

Paul Gainey
Feb 272 min read


Ballad of a Small Player
The vast emptiness of luxury hotels is part of the mystery and spectacle of Edward Berger’s intriguing if static and overwrought psychological drama-thriller "Ballad of a Small Player". It is about a desperate chancer and gambling addict, faced with the metaphysical crisis of renewing or annulling his existence by staking everything on a single bet. Screenwriter Rowan Joffe adapts the 2014 novel by Lawrence Osborne, whose title is ironic. He would not have these problems if h

Paul Gainey
Feb 272 min read


Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell Review
While technically accurate, that description misses the deeper focus of Zhao’s immersive account of the desire, grief, love, and anger that flow between a woman and her playwright husband, culminating in a remarkable demonstration of what art can do.

Paul Gainey
Feb 273 min read


Talented Mr Ripley
It feels appropriate, somehow, that Tom Ripley, the ever-chameleonic con man created by author Patricia Highsmith, has proven a bit of a...

Paul Gainey
May 29, 20254 min read


Indiana Jones – last one
Indiana Jones is back. The good news is that it isn't a disaster. It's a respectable, competent addition to the series and Indiana goes out on a high.

Paul Gainey
May 28, 20254 min read


Oppenheimer
"Oppenheimer” is director/writer Christopher Nolan’s best and most revealing work. It’s a profoundly unnerving story told with a traditionalist’s eye towards craftsmanship and muscular, cinematic imagination

Paul Gainey
May 28, 20254 min read


Oppenheimer
Oppenheimer is now unquestionably this year’s frontrunner, with 13 nominations, mushrooming on the horizon and seemingly set to incinerate everything in its path. We will know tonight as it's Oscar night!!

Paul Gainey
May 28, 20252 min read


Promising Young Woman
Have the Oscars started taking Carey Mulligan for granted? It’s a measure of how highly the British actor is regarded that her latest nomination – her third – has been met with so little fuss. No one expected her to win for her performance as Felicia, Leonard Bernstein’s glamorous, long-suffering South American wife, in Maestro.

Paul Gainey
May 28, 20253 min read


A Gentleman in Moscow
This is, first and foremost, the story of Count Alexander Rostov.

Paul Gainey
Feb 7, 20252 min read


Beetlejuice
The messy and tiresome Beetlejuice, is the latest of Hollywood’s ‘legacy sequels’...

Paul Gainey
Feb 7, 20252 min read
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