Rating: ⭐⭐⭐☆☆ Godzilla Minus Zero roars into cinemas as a visually staggering, deafeningly loud spectacle that demands to be experienced on the absolute grandest scale possible. Walking out of a screening equipped with a 7.1 surround sound system, my ears were ringing in the best way imaginable; the superb sound editing is a visceral, bone-rattling triumph that you feel vibrating in your very chest. If you are going to see director Takashi Yamazaki’s ambitious sequel, you abs

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