Nick Howells

Emily Blunt and Josh O'Connor in DISCLOSURE DAY
Film

Disclosure Day review: Spielberg is back to weaving vintage wonder

Josh O'Connor and Emily Blunt race, chase and bend minds to reveal aliens on Earth in Steven Spielberg’s finest film in years

9 Jun 2026
Film

The Cine Files: everything you need to see at the cinema in March

From Austin Butler squaring up to Timothée Chalamet in the latest Dune, to a road movie with a corpse and a solo Coen brother caper, these are the 17 films you should know about this month

4 Mar 2024
Film

Four Daughters: Oscar-nominated documentary is transfixing and raw

This is no straightforward tale of radicalisation, it is also a frank portrait of family

4 Mar 2024
Film

Dune: Part Two - epic! Epic! Epic! This space opera can do no wrong

Denis Villeneuve is a director who knows how to please a crowd while also satisfying the cleverati

21 Feb 2024
Film

Wicked Little Letters: f*** me, this sweary filthfest gets boring fast

Olivia Colman and Jessie Buckley put in less than their usual stellar work in this daft tale of poison pen letters in a sleepy town

21 Feb 2024
Film

The Iron Claw: fails to get to grips with tragic true wrestling story

It’s a shame that the Von Erich family’s extraordinary story wasn’t told better

9 Feb 2024
Film

The Cine Files: everything you need to see at the cinema in February

From a blistering Chilean (yes!) Western to Juliette Binoche in one of the most delicious movies about food ever, we pick the best 13 films to see at the cinema this month

5 Feb 2024
Film

How not to weep through All of Us Strangers

If you don't cry at Andrew Scott and Paul Mescal's performances in All of Us Strangers, you need to start asking yourself some questions...

26 Jan 2024
TV

Masters of the Air on Apple TV+: this nerve-shredding WW2 drama soars

Austin Butler, Ncuti Gatwa and Barry Keoghan are among the all star cast in this story of the "Bloody Hundredth" bomber squadron

24 Jan 2024
Film

Why is Christmas movie The Holdovers being released in January?

Alexander Payne's new film The Holdovers, which recently bagged two of its stars Golden Globes, it set over Christmas, but is strangely being release a month later

14 Jan 2024
Film

The Cine Files: everything you need to see at the cinema in January

From Paul Mescal and Andrew Scott in a truly devastating tear-jerker to Emma Stone’s wildest performance yet, we round-up the best 14 movies to watch this month

29 Dec 2023
Film

The 20 best films of 2023 from Barbenheimer to Cocaine Bear and beyond

From the twin beasts of Barbenheimer to Glenda Jackson’s swansong and Timothée Chalamet’s delicious Wonka, we bring you the finest movies of the year

27 Dec 2023
Film

The Boy and the Heron: Hayao Miyazaki's latest 'last' film is gorgeous

It doesn't quite match his greatest masterpieces but this beautiful, magical film still soars way above the competition

22 Dec 2023
Film

Wonka: Timothée Chalamet is scrumptious in this rollicking sweet treat

Chalamet is very much the star of the chocolatier's origin story but the flawless ensemble cast, including Hugh Grant as an Ooompa Loompa, bring the film to life

7 Dec 2023
Film

The Cine Files: everything you need to see at the cinema in December

From a superbly creepy British debut to the return of Godzilla and farewell to a Japanese legend, here are the 21 best films to see this month

1 Dec 2023
Film

Eileen: desire runs riot in this Ottessa Moshfegh adaptation

Eileen is the drabbest of them all... until glamourous new prison psychiatrist Rebecca comes swanning into town, that is

30 Nov 2023
Film

Femme: revenge is served sizzling hot in this nerve-tingling thriller

The debut directors bonded over watching Safdie brothers films but this is altogether deeper and more satisfying

30 Nov 2023
TV

Slow Horses season three: taut as an assassin’s sticky garrote

Gary Oldman and his Slow Horses spooks are back and the action is better, faster and tougher than ever

20 Nov 2023
Film

The Cine files: everything you need to see at the cinema in November

From the Palme d'Or winner to Barry Keoghan's latest appearance to a great British debut, here is our pick of the movies to watch this month

1 Nov 2023
Lifestyle

The Cine Files: everything you need to see at the cinema in October

From Leonardo DiCaprio in Scorsese’s hugely anticipated Killers of the Flower Moon to the late Glenda Jackson’s moving swansong in The Great Escaper, we round up the eight best films to see in October

17 Oct 2023
TV

Payback on ITV review: Edinburgh-based thriller is almost on the money

Morven Christie proves that being caught between the cops and big, bad Peter Mullan is a painfully tight spot

4 Oct 2023