★★★★½ - STUFF - Wētā FX’s wizards at the heart of franchise’s bold new entry- It has been billed as the beginning of a new trilogy – and by it’s own director as, “Apocalypto with apes”. Arguably it’s also a risky proposition, a return to a beloved now 56-year-old film franchise, seven years after…

★★★★ - STUFF - Kiwi comedy a clever and blackly funny gem- The Moon is Upside Down unfolds over a handful of days. At a city airport, Natalia arrives from Siberia. She is here to marry the quiet and taciturn Mack, who owns a run-down rural garage and a space that might one-day be a café. Mack is…

★★★★★ - EMPIRE -Meeting as teenagers, three ambitious tennis players embark on a journey of lust, love and ruinous competition. Game on- Skin glimmers in Challengers. Tongues entwine, sweat drips. Dicks dangle. Spit is spat. In faces. Luca Guadagnino likes to get up close and personal. Of late he…

★★★★ - GUARDIAN -Two fantastic movie star turns lead this loving and supremely entertaining ode to stunt work based on the 80s TV series- Before The Fall Guy even premiered at the SXSW film festival on Tuesday, there were boos in the audience – not for the film or stars Ryan Gosling and Emily…

★★★★ - GUARDIAN -Woozy Amy Winehouse biopic buoyed by extraordinary lead performance- The last time Sam Taylor-Johnson directed a movie about drugs it was A Million Little Pieces in 2019, based on James Frey’s notoriously inauthentic memoir of addiction – and the last time she made a film about a…

★★★★ - THE GUARDIAN  - The true tale of a foul-mouthed scribbler in 1920s Sussex is given nuance by a stellar cast including Olivia Colman, Jessie Buckley, Anjana Vasan and Timothy Spall -  Before X or Twitter or even YouTube, if you wanted to vent your rage at an unjust world on a blameless…