Rebecca (Cinemas, 12A) Verdict: Revisiting a classic Rating: Daphne du Maurier did not write her haunting 1938 novel Rebecca expecting it to be adapted for the screen — but it wasn’t long, as she put it herself, before film people were ‘sniffing around’. The sniffing has never really stopped. Alfred Hitchcock’s celebrated movie was released … Read more
The Trial of the Chicago 7 (Netflix, 15) Verdict: The jury’s out Rating: On The Rocks (Cinemas, 12A) Verdict: Flimsily appealing Rating: With the U.S. at another convulsive moment in its history, with accusations of racism and police brutality flying from one side and of Left-wing agitators stirring up trouble from the other, Aaron Sorkin’s … Read more
David Attenborough: A Life On Our Planet Verdict: Powerful and important Rating: About 25 years ago, I had the pleasure of interviewing Sir David Attenborough. He was already regarded as a kind of wise, benign uncle to the nation. Now he’s 94, maybe we should think of him as a great-great uncle. Sitting alone with … Read more
Bill And Ted Face The Music (cinemas, PG) Rating: Verdict: Uninspiring rehash The Devil All The Time (Netflix, 18) Rating: Verdict: Dark but gripping The Christopher Nolan blockbuster Tenet has not, it seems, quite achieved what the cinema industry hoped by tempting multitudes back to the multiplexes. But since it needs two or three viewings … Read more
Bill And Ted Face The Music (cinemas, PG) Rating: Verdict: Uninspiring rehash The Devil All The Time (Netflix, 18) Rating: Verdict: Dark but gripping The Christopher Nolan blockbuster Tenet has not, it seems, quite achieved what the cinema industry hoped by tempting multitudes back to the multiplexes. But since it needs two or three viewings … Read more
Mulan (Disney+, 12A) Rating: Verdict: Colourful but humourless I’m Thinking Of Ending Things (Netflix) Rating: Verdict: Great acting, grim tale Mulan, Disney’s latest live-action remake of one of its own hit animations, was meant to be one of the two summer blockbusters, along with Christopher Nolan’s Tenet, to breathe fire back into the wounded dragon … Read more
It’s a mystery… but let’s not panic just yet: Emergence of a new strain of coronavirus that targets children is ‘incredibly unlikely’, writes Professor RUSSELL VINER By Professor Russell Viner For The Daily Mail Published: 22:13 BST, 28 April 2020 | Updated: 00:33 BST, 29 April 2020 The first thing I want to stress about … Read more
It’s a mystery… but let’s not panic just yet: Emergence of a new strain of coronavirus that targets children is ‘incredibly unlikely’, writes Professor RUSSELL VINER By Professor Russell Viner For The Daily Mail Published: 22:13 BST, 28 April 2020 | Updated: 22:31 BST, 28 April 2020 The first thing I want to stress about … Read more
Extraction (Netflix, 15) Verdict: Violent and derivative Rating: Extraction. It seems fitting that a film that sounds like a dental training video should set your teeth on edge. It stars Chris Hemsworth as that staple character of modern action movies, the former ‘special ops’ soldier, a veteran of the war in Afghanistan, now working as … Read more
Extraction (Netflix, 15) Verdict: Violent and derivative Rating: Extraction. It seems fitting that a film that sounds like a dental training video should set your teeth on edge. It stars Chris Hemsworth as that staple character of modern action movies, the former ‘special ops’ soldier, a veteran of the war in Afghanistan, now working as … Read more