Hostage situations have to be some of the most frightening scenarios that people could ever find themselves in. There’s always the element of not knowing what’s going to happen, plus you’re life appears to always be on the line. Then you have nothing but time on your hands to think about everything in your past, present and future if you …

In Captain America: Civil War, we have a film that represent a number of things.

Burnt interested me before I saw it, because it had what looked liked the potential to be an entertaining small film that could go by its own rules. In some ways, that does happen, but it proved to be unable to showcase anything worthwhile. That’s not to say that it’s an absolutely terrible movie. There are some features here that …

It may only be April, but Woman in Gold, the latest film by director Simon Curtis (My Week with Marilyn) is certainly the frontrunner for the schmaltziest film of the year. Like a serving of pancakes drenched in far too much syrup, it’s gooey, sticky and sickly sweet; a film comprised entirely of scenes in which mushy sentimentality is prioritized …

Simon Curtis made quite an introduction to the world of film with My Week with Marilyn being his directorial debut. I don’t think he or anyone involved saw how well that movie was going to do. When he came in town to promote Woman in Gold, I obviously had to ask him about that as well as get to hear …