He’s cute, curious and loves marmalade, and that’s all we really need to know about the bear Paddington in order to make his adventures in London so damn entertaining for […]

Easily one of the most reliable and joyful animation houses functioning today, Aardman Animations delivers a sequel to one of its most beloved works, 2000’s Chicken Run (the highest-grossing stop-motion […]

In 2016, for the second season of the groundbreaking British mini-series The Hollow Crown (adaptations of Shakespeare’s royalty-based history plays), director Dominic Cooke cast Benedict Cumberbatch to play one of […]

Like the other horror film released this week (The Rental, reviewed here), Romola Garai’s Amulet aspires to something impressive within contemporary genre features. It is a gorgeous production (making her feature directorial […]

It’s difficult to believe that five years have passed since Maleficent came into our lives and set the record straight on just how the Sleeping Beauty legend really played out, […]

Editor’s Note: minor spoilers for the “Downton Abbey” television series follow, in order to relate the new film to the narrative’s larger arc. As difficult as it is to imagine […]

Imelda Staunton is one of the single greatest and most versatile actors working today, but you might not realize it unless you’ve been exposed to her work on the big […]

Across several decades of film and television directing, primarily out of the U.K., Richard Loncraine has built up an impressive body of work that covers both comedy, drama, and everything […]

One of the first things you notice about the latest from director Richard Loncraine (Brimstone & Treacle, The Missionary, 1995’s Richard III, Wimbledon) is that in a film whose entire […]