Patrick Makin movies, cinema features and reviews

Amber Midthunder makes for a brilliantly convincing action heroine in this gory and breathlessly thrilling piece of period sci-fi

Roland Emmerich's latest disaster movie is so embarrassingly slow that even its ancient alien conspiracies barely hold your interest

This masterful follow-up sees the return of Honor Swinton Byrne as Julie, a Hogg proxy on a mission to make sense of a tragic death

Lana Wachowski returns with a deliriously self-aware fourth entry in the groundbreaking series that both fascinates and frustrates

To coincide with the release of Paul Greengrass' News of the World, we look back at some of this unstoppable genre's recent greats

Hannah Strong explores how David Fincher put the actor's uneasy allure to fascinating use in his 2014 film adaptation

Another week, another trailer that causes slack-jawed confusion. What is the meaning behind this film and why is Emily Blunt in it?

We run down the week's best films to rent and stream, including a timely doc on trans representation and the latest from Olivier Assayas...

Brainwashing, Satanic rituals, and lots of weird chanting: here we highlight our top picks from the world of cult escape films...

All the movies worth catching in the capital, from Swedish folk horror to a blockbuster about Spider-Man on his holidays...

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