The Roses is the sporadically funny but undercooked, shakily constructed and tonally uneven remake of the dark 1980’s marital discord comedy The War of the Roses that starred Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner. This time, replacing Douglas and Turner are Benedict Cumberbatch and Olivia Coleman. Cumberbatch plays Theo Rose a renowned architect who after an astonishingly quick courtship marries chef
Read moreThe seemingly endless Marvel movie parade careens ahead with the latest cgi-drenched action extravaganza, Dr Strange in The Multiverse of Madness. While as visually inventive and eyeball pummelling as any film in the various Marvel universes (MCU, Spiderverse) this movie seriously lacks the energy and fun of the best Marvel movies such as the recent Spider-Man No Way Home and
Read moreApparently determined to bring us a cinema incarnation of every character that has ever graced their pages, Marvel Comics now present Dr Strange. The good doctor is one of the lesser known Marvel heroes – at least for the average cinema goer – but as his powers are based on manipulation of the metaphysical world rather than brute strength, he’s
Read moreSlotting somewhere between The Social Network and the recent Steve Jobs biopic, The Fifth Estate dramatises the creation of Wikileaks and the relationship between its Editor in chief Julian Assange (Benedict Cumberbatch) and the man who helped him create the site, German computer wiz Daniel Berg (Daniel Bruhl). The film traces their increasingly ambitious and provocative attempts to expose what
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