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Jeremy Strong stars in The Social Reckoning (Image: Sony Pictures Releasing) As someone who loves movies more than life itself, I pride myself on being ahead of the curve with film releases. This summer has been better than the past (never forget Barbenheimer 2023, however), with the release of Christopher …

There’s a BBC series on iPlayer that you may not have had the chance to watch yet, but critics bill it as an “understated gem”. Film Club is a British television series written by and starring Aimee Lou Wood and Ralph Davis. It first aired early in October on BBC …

A Steven Spielberg film you’ve probably never heard of that one fan hailed as a “misunderstood masterpiece” is streaming now in the UK. The teaser intro for 1941 (released in 1979), reads: “In the days after the Pearl Harbor attack, panic spreads across a California city when an enemy submarine …

Back in 1942, Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman starred in Michael Curtiz’s romantic drama, Casablanca. Set and filmed during World War 2, the story follows Bogey’s American expat Rick, the owner of a nightclub in Vichy-controlled Morocco. When his old flame (Ingrid Bergman) seeks him out, he soon realises she …

Back in the 1960s, Sean Connery took the world by storm as the big screen incarnation of Ian Fleming’s James Bond. Of course, the Licence to Kill-wielding MI6 agent is just a fantasy and not much like actual British spooks. In 1962, Len Deighton wrote The Ipcress Files, which was …

Resident Evil fans have been let down plenty of times in the past by films based on the horror franchise. But Zach Cregger might be the man to restore their faith in movie adaptations. The latest trailer for this year’s Resident Evil movie reboot has dropped, and it teases a …

A new action film praised by viewers as “wonderful” and “nostalgic” is now streaming on Prime Video. Masters of the Universe was released in UK cinemas on June 5 and is still being shown in select cinemas, despite its recent streaming debut (July 22). The film was considered a box-office …

The ‘excellent and moving’ period drama is available to stream on Amazon Prime Video (Image: ECOSSE FILMS) An ‘underseen’ period drama adaptation has completely mesmerised audiences, with viewers bestowing upon it the ‘highest recommendation’ and proclaiming it will become a classic adaptation ‘just like Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice (1995)’. …

Alongside the launch is a new poster featuring Doom facing a mural of what appears to be his universe collapsing due to an incursion, when the boundaries between two realities erode, causing them to collide and potentially destroy each other. Now eagle-eyed fans have spotted in the background what looks …

Ebenezer is directed by Ti West, best known for horror films, suggesting he’ll lean into the ghost story side of the festive tale. The upcoming film co-stars Rupert Grint as Bob Cratchit, with Sir Ian McKellen as Jacob Marley. Ebenezer hits cinemas this November.