Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, along with last year's spectacular The Force Awakens, is setting a dangerous, if lovely, precedent for future Star Wars movies. Gone are the days of praying and hoping for the best. Now, stroll boldly into the multiplex knowing the latest in the expanding saga will blow your head off. Rogue One doesn't disappoint in these stakes. Perfectly contextualising some of the more frustrating and loose aspects of A New Hope as well as telling a brand new

Music; the great communicator as the Chili Peppers once sang. The media form able to bind our ever-dividing world. A year of turbulence,...

Amidst all the strife of 2016 we always have music to turn to. Chunks of life and artistic expression to take three of four minutes at a...

Allied is another unfortunate misstep that has seemed all too common this year. What appears a brilliant concept: a couple meet in the midst of World War II whilst deep in enemy territory undercover as fake husband and wife before becoming married for real. Then, husband is told his wife may be a German spy (an undercover spy posing as an undercover spy to make things mega confusing) and he has 24 hours to prove she isn't or execute her. A WW2 Mr and Mrs Smith, if you will. I

JK Rowling invites us back into her magical world with the long-anticipated Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, named after her charity book of the same name. Here, Rowling expands that mock textbook, said to be written by former Hogwarts student Newt Scamander, into a fully-fledged feature showing Scamander's exploits in the 1920's. We start with Eddie Redmayne's Newt arriving in New York in the midst of some magical disturbances and the ongoing hunt for dark wizard Gri

You certainly can't accuse Amy Adams of being lazy. Two movies are gracing the cinemas at the moment featuring her considerable talents and the most-hyped of which is Denis Villeneuve's Arrival. You'll have seen the trailer, or one of the many, many posters by now and you'll know that 12 unusual 'shells' (they look like humongous contact lenses made of charcoal) have conveniently placed themselves at 12 nondescript locations around the globe and it's up to the countries they'

You may or may not be glad to hear that The Accountant does, indeed, feature a scene with Ben Affleck's titular character doing some accounting. However, don't be fooled by its innocent-sounding title. We're in thriller territory here with Affleck's character a Layer Cake-esque mysterious enigma, processing the accounts for shady criminals and organisations and being paid in stolen art and comic books for the privilege. He's being watched by JK Simmons' CIA officer and takes

It still surprises me that, after 12 films, paying cinema-goers would leave before the two after-credit stingers in Marvel films. Rest assured, Doctor Strange has two of these bad boys and, unlike some of the more trivial stingers in the past, both are mightily viable to the future of the MCU so stick around! The film itself is another change of scenery for Marvel. We're in origin-movie territory again but, this time, in the realms of high fantasy. After straight action (The

The Girl on the Train rolls into cinemas with nary a delay in sight. Relocating the novel to America (it better suits the picturesque houses and environment) Emily Blunt stars as the titular girl who, fascinated by a couple she glimpses everyday on her commute, gets involved as the woman mysteriously disappears. Hyped as this year's Gone Girl, Tate Taylor's thriller doesn't quite hit the heights of Fincher's film, mainly down to a lack of 'did-that-really-just-happen' twists.

Tim Burton's latest, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, is based on Ransom Rigg's young adult novel of the same name. Seemingly promoted and set up as a family franchise lead-off but don't be fooled, this is as dark, scary and (no pun intended) peculiar as the rest of his oeuvre. We do, though, follow a young-adult story and see events through the eyes of Jake (Asa Butterfield, convincingly American) and typical young-adult (now a genre in itself) tropes abound: a l

The Girl with All the Gifts dares to innovate in the rather saturated zombie market. It's a fair while since we've seen a post-apocalyptic film of this type in the cinemas, largely down to the success and brilliance of The Walking Dead which, of course, is able to tell a larger story. The Girl with All the Gifts is an adaptation of Mike Carey's novel and the treatment has been delivered by the author himself and directed by Colm McCarthy, known more for his TV work (such as P

The Magnificent Seven, frustratingly, keeps up 2016's record of delivering blockbusters with a distinct 'meh' factor. Perhaps not daring to dishonour the 1960 original it's based on (or Kurosawa's Seven Samurai which, in turn, that was based on) Antoine Fuqua's film just feels a little behind the times when compared with this year's stellar Western quota (The Revenant and The Hateful Eight being the two most prevalent examples.) As such, expect a breezy plot line about a ragt