Thessaloniki film festival: A place to engage
By Preston Wilder This year’s 60th Thessaloniki International Film Festival (which ended on Sunday with the top prize going to Fire Will Come, an often-transcendent...
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Film review: Doctor Sleep ***
By Preston Wilder If there’s one thing Stephen King does well, it’s a kind of mad over-abundance; his books are very long and very full,...
Film review: Parasite ***
By Preston Wilder We waited years for a Japanese film to win the Golden Palm at Cannes then subsequently open in Cyprus cinemas, but it...
Film review: Terminator: Dark Fate **
By Preston Wilder What a strange, lopsided franchise: two genre classics in the 80s and early 90s, then three (now four) uninspired, mechanical retreads in...
Film review: Countdown **
By Preston Wilder Tech-driven threats to teenage life continue to proliferate, whether it’s a faceless spectre summoned on the internet (Slender Man), a demon who’s...
Film review: The Addams Family ***
By Preston Wilder Give it up for one Matt Lieberman, a little-known screenwriter tasked with the challenge of keeping a single joke going for the...
Film review: Hustlers ***
By Preston Wilder Destiny (Constance Wu) and Ramona (Jennifer Lopez) are hustlers. So are their victims, filthy-rich Wall Street types who’ve been robbing people on...
Film review: Maleficent: Mistress of Evil **
By Preston Wilder It’s the battle of the cheekbones, or the battle of imperious divas. When it comes to cheekbones, Angelina Jolie (as Maleficent) wins...
Film review: Gemini Man **
By Damon Smith In Gemini Man Will Smith plays two lead roles, but a loopy plot results in a plastic and inexpressive doppelganger In an...
Oscar contenders
Four months before the actual ceremony, Oscar experts are already making their Best Picture predictions says Preston Wilder It’s barely even October, but already the...
Film review: Joker ***
By Preston Wilder First things first: Joker is a trip, it’ll knock your socks off – and it’s also next-level in another way, a comic-book...
Film review: Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark ***
By Preston Wilder I’ll start, shall I? Once there was a juvenile horror with a Scooby-Doo plot that ended up being surprisingly enjoyable – and...
Film review: Rambo: Last Blood *
By Preston Wilder John Rambo has some anger issues, for an older man. “I want revenge,” he snarls. “I want them to know that death...
Film review: The Goldfinch **
By Preston Wilder Millions of people read The Goldfinch, Donna Tartt’s 773-page, Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, when it came out in 2014. I wasn’t one of...
Film review: Ad Astra****
By Preston Wilder Ad Astra’ means ‘To the Stars’, which is where we look for signs of intelligent life, the alternative – too awful to...
Film review: Crawl ***
By Damon Smith A father and daughter discover they are far from the top of the evolutionary food chain in Alexandre Aja’s diabolical masterclass in...
Film review: Angel Has Fallen **
By Damon Smith When Gerard Butler began his tour of duty as Secret Service agent Mike Banning in 2013 in Olympus Has Fallen, Barack Obama...
Five small-screen alternatives
We have absolutely nothing against The Angry Birds Movie 2, the week’s other new release besides It: Chapter Two. The title, admittedly, lies a bit...
Film review: It: Chapter Two **
By Preston Wilder The kids from It are back in their hometown of Derry in It: Chapter Two, set 27 years after the first one...
Film through the decades: 1959
Here’s the last instalment of ‘Through the Decades’, our summer feature going back through film history a decade at a time. 1959 FACTS AND FIGURES:...
