Back in 2014, nobody, (apart from me), expected The Lego Movie to be any good. The film from Christopher Miller and Phil Lord, the brains behind Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, 21 Jump St and Spider-Man Into The Spider-Verse was outrageously funny and with animation from Australia’s Animal Logic, it looked like it was…

Next time you buy a Star Wars toy online, spare a thought for the delivery driver bringing it to your door… Sorry We Missed You tells the tale of a young English family in financial difficulty in Newcastle. The Dad, Ricky has been a knockabout labourer his whole life and along with his wife Abby,…

What do you get when you combine a Sir and a Dame? In this case a perfect match as McKellen and Mirren duke it out, tiptoeing around the truth in this surprisingly smart thriller. Blind Freddie could see there’s more to The Good Liar than what the trailer tells us about lonely widow Betty (Helen…

A staple of 20th Century TV alongside The Munsters, The Addams Family made it OK to be freaky, kooky and downright weird. Hell, they even made it fun to be odd, and that’s a crucial message if you’re a kid who doesn’t fit in. So I come to this film with some reverence for the…

Anna, Elsa, Kristoff, Olaf and Sven leave Arendelle to travel to an ancient, autumn-bound forest of an enchanted land. They set out to find the origin of Elsa’s powers in order to save their kingdom. What they find helps to explain the origins of Elsa’s magic and reveal the fate of their parents. It’s a…

A detective investigates the death of a patriarch of an eccentric, combative family. Harlan Thrombey (Christopher Plummer) lies dead in a pool of his own blood, the victim of a single knife slash to his throat. The wealthy author is discovered the morning after his 85th birthday party sprawled on a sofa in his country…

Keira Knightley is frankly very impressive as Katharine Gun, a British translator working for the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), a British intelligence agency. In 2003, Gun was so appalled by a request from the US to investigate UN Security Council Members in a bid to compromise them into voting for a proposal to invade Iraq…

The Finke Desert Race is the largest off-road motorsport event in the Southern Hemisphere and Australia’s fastest, deadliest, toughest and certainly dustiest race. “Finke” explores the race from within: competitors, organisers, paramedics, and the drive to win against the desert at all costs, delivering a visual adventure of inspiration and danger, excitement and spills. So…

The pouts and sunglasses on the poster don’t do this film justice, but importantly the image of Matt Damon and Christian Bale underpins Ford V Ferrari because this is so much more than a film that is just about a car race. It’s about the volatility of men, the bitterness of disappointment, the corporate meddling…

One of the bigger disappointments this year comes from wonderful actor, writer and director Elizabeth Banks with her latest incarnation of TV favourite Charlie’s Angels, experiencing the dreaded & unnecessary reboot, seriously lacking in chemistry, comedy and excitement. Kristen Stewart and relative newcomer Ella Balinska play two of the Angels, who come to the assistance…

The latest comedy from Paul Feig comes with a twist that apparently everybody else in the world picked instantly but I couldn’t see coming until the reveal, when it did become bleeding obvious. Emilia Clarke plays Katerina (Kate), who as a child was a gifted singer, but now as a young adult her life seems…

Not happy with Stanley Kubrick’s film adaptation on his classic horror novel The Shining, Stephen King has returned to the occupants of the Overlook Hotel 40 years on, to check in on Danny Torrance, and see how the kid on the tricycle is handling his psychic gift. Turns out not so well. It is 2011…