Nick Howells

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Sinners review: two Michael B Jordans battle supernatural hell

Black Panther director Ryan Coogler’s genre-busting horror is devilish fun with a side of social commentary

17 Apr 2025
Film

Alien: Romulus review: blasts the series back to gory, glorious life

Cailee Spaeny and Fede Alvarez fire up the Alien franchise to its former brilliance

15 Aug 2024
Film

Irish rap romp Kneecap to Hunter Schafer in Cuckoo, August's top films

Kneecap is an absolute, erm, cracker, and we can’t wait for Alien: Romulus. Here are the 12 best films out this month

28 Jul 2024
Film

I Saw the TV Glow: a startlingly distinctive horror-fantashy mash-up

Justice Smith stars in this relentlessly gloomy fantasy with a message that you’ll love or hate

26 Jul 2024
Film

Longlegs review: Even Nic Cage can't save this disappointing horror

Despite the hype that surrounds the film, for genuine scares look elsewhere

11 Jul 2024
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MaXXXine review: Mia Goth is brain-blastingly brilliant

Following X and Pearl, this film puts on a gleeful display of blood-letting

3 Jul 2024
Film

From MaXXXine to Fly Me to the Moon: July's best cinema films

From Goth thrilling you to the bloody core to Johansson going all Mad Men with the moon landings, these are the best 13 films to watch

3 Jul 2024
Food & Drink

Best Scottish whiskies

’Tis the season to drink a dram

27 Jun 2024
Film

The Bikeriders: Jodie Comer roars into this full-throttle drama

The actress, alongside Austin Butler and Tom Hardy, make this an effortless ride

21 Jun 2024
Film

From The Bikeriders to Sasquatch Sunset, June's best films

These are the 15 films you should be watching this month

5 Jun 2024
Film

Fall Guy to Furiosa: the best films to see at the cinema in May

Here are May’s 13 hottest cinema releases

3 May 2024
Film

Swede Caroline review: painfully unfunny

A film that’s supposed to look amateurish also feels amateurish in its execution

19 Apr 2024
Film

Civil War review: Alex Garland's best film by far

Is it about civil war? Not really, but this Kirsten Dunst film still comes within an incinerated whisker of the greats

11 Apr 2024
Film

From Civil War to Back to Black: what to see at the cinema in April

From Kirsten Dunst in Alex Garland’s storming Civil War to the much anticipated Amy Winehouse biopic, these are the 17 films you should know about this month

31 Mar 2024
Film

Silver Haze's Vicky Knight: 'film saved my life'

As Silver Haze hits cinemas, actress Vicky Knight, who survived an arson attack with 33 per cent burns, talks about why she’s no longer just the girl with the scars

30 Mar 2024
Film

Drive-Away Dolls: a wild Sapphic joyride from the Coen Brothers

Is this the lesbian road movie we’ve all been screaming out for?

14 Mar 2024
Film

The Cine Files: everything you need to see at the cinema in March

From Austin Butler squaring up to Timothée Chalamet in the latest Dune, to a road movie with a corpse and a solo Coen brother caper, these are the 17 films you should know about this month

4 Mar 2024
Film

Four Daughters: Oscar-nominated documentary is transfixing and raw

This is no straightforward tale of radicalisation, it is also a frank portrait of family

4 Mar 2024
Film

Dune: Part Two - epic! Epic! Epic! This space opera can do no wrong

Denis Villeneuve is a director who knows how to please a crowd while also satisfying the cleverati

21 Feb 2024
Film

Wicked Little Letters: f*** me, this sweary filthfest gets boring fast

Olivia Colman and Jessie Buckley put in less than their usual stellar work in this daft tale of poison pen letters in a sleepy town

21 Feb 2024