Get ready for an Amazonian adventure of a lifetime. If your name is Percy Fawcett, you'll be so hooked you'll go back again and again. If your name is Everybody Else, you'll get to experience two and a half hours of the epic (and true) journey. Directed by James Gray and featuring the likes of Charlie Hunnam, Sienna Miller, Robert Pattinson and Tom...

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An enchanting rendition that's very faithful to its original source, Beauty and the Beast is a musical, visually-pleasing crowd-pleaser that will give you all the warm fuzzy feels. Emma Watson and Dan Stevens lead the live-action cast, whilst the likes of Sir Ian McKellen, Ewan McGregor and Emma Thompson get the animated treatment. Is it bad that I watched James Corden's Crosswalk the...

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A frank look at the struggles of ALS...this is the story of former American football star Steve Gleason. This documentary details how motor neurone disease has impacted his life and his family through brutally honest home videos and diaries over 4 years that are more than often difficult to watch. It's full of heart, matched with equal amounts of inspiration and devastation. I...

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Samuel L. Jackson, John C. Reilly, Tom W. Hiddleston and Brie S. Larson and form a super-squad ready to take on the famous colossal ape/giant gorilla/big...monkey. They do so in style - and there's some substance behind it too. The reboot is a visually impressive, good ol'fashioned fun trip to the cinema (and down memory lane). It's Vietnam and it's 1973. American troops...

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Oh, Wolverine. Our beloved but scary wolf-man with the big hair, deadly claws and feisty temper is finally growling adios. Hugh Jackman, Hollywood's Mr Nice Guy, I will miss you too. The 8th and final film featuring Wolverine as we know him is the most X-Men divergent, dark and painful offering we've had yet, but it's also one of the best. The claws...

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Indie film Certain Women (in UK cinemas 3rd March) takes a long but simple look at certain female characters and their 'ordinary' tales in a star-studded affair featuring Laura Dern, Kristen Stewart, Michelle Williams, and scene-stealer Lily Gladstone.  Not to be confused with Twentieth Century Women, also in cinemas right now, Certain Women is written and directed by Kelly Reichardt based on a...

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Viceroy's House brings to life the real life drama of the Partition of India in 1947, with a blunt but moving period piece tribute. Director Gurinder Chadha says you're not supposed to 'enjoy' the film as such, but it's as insightful as it gets, unearthing the bitter truths of a topic we don't get educated on enough.  As film screenings go, I'd like...

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