Rating: ★★★☆☆ There is an undeniable audacity in attempting to wring belly laughs from the darkest chapters of American foreign policy. Wild Horse Nine, the darkly comic geopolitical thriller hitting cinemas this week, walks a razor-thin tonal tightrope, balancing slapstick banter against the grim reality of US-backed South American coups. The result is a film that is frequently hilarious, occasionally brilliant, but ultimately hindered by its own desperate need to be profoun

Rating: ★★★☆☆ (3 out of 5 stars) Adapted from Ursula Wills-Jones’s short story The Wicker Husband, directors Alex Huston Fischer and Eleanor Wilson bring a distinct, folkloric oddity to the screen. Wicker transports audiences to an indeterminate, storybook past—presumably a medieval era where conformity is law and isolation is a crime punishable by public ridicule. In this timeless, rustic settlement, nobody possesses a proper given name. Instead, the inhabitants are defined

The first time I heard of Patrick Stewart, or heard that amazing voice was in 1988 when the VHS tapes of Star Trek: The Next Generation went on sale, the series having started airing in 1987. The first words spoken were Picard's monologue, the famous "Captain's Log" as he introduced himself to us and his crew as he familiarised himself with his new command, the USS Enterprise (NCC 1701-D). Growing up, I recall him being in 'I, Claudius' on the BBC but that was the "kind of st