The brightest stars in director Greg Berlanti’s nimble romantic comedy based around the 1969 moon landing are not the luminous balls of flaming gas that burn fiercely in the night-time sky and twinkle around Earth’s only natural satellite. The honour is reserved, instead, for the celestial pairing of Hollywood hotties Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum … Read more
Wishful thinking is an unforgiving mistress. The Duke of York learnt that in late 2019 after he agreed to an exclusive one-on-one interview with BBC Newsnight journalist Emily Maitlis to answer uncomfortable questions about his personal ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The meme-worthy hour of television was intended to end the social-media hubbub. … Read more
Originality flies the coop in this family-friendly computer-animated adventure from the flock at Illumination, who previously hatched Minions and The Secret Life Of Pets. A baby duckling borrows her wide-eyed cuteness from supervillain Gru’s youngest adopted daughter Agnes in Despicable Me, aerial acrobatics above a fluffy cloud line glide in the slipstream of How To … Read more
One man can make a difference in a world divided by conflict. In director James Hawes’s handsomely crafted period drama based on Barbara Winton’s biography of her humanitarian father, the difference is 86-year-old Sir Anthony Hopkins. The two-time Oscar winner elevates a stirring tale of quiet dedication in the shadow of the Nazi war machine … Read more
