3.5

Kong: Skull Island – that’s a huge monkey!

Neil WelchMarch 13, 2017

As the Vietnam War comes to an end, a US secret service operative manages to organise an expedition to an uncharted island involving a British survival expert, ...

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4.3

The Great Wall: based on a kinda true story

Neil WelchFebruary 23, 2017

If, like me, you thought the Great Wall of China was built to keep out Genghis Khan and his horde of ravaging Mongols, think again. It turns out that it was act...

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3.5

Dinner, Dinner, Dinner, Dinner Lego Batman!

Neil WelchFebruary 20, 2017

Gotham’s saviour, Batman, can triumph against villains galore, but his greatest battle is keeping his distance from those who care about him. I must confess ...

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4.0

The Space Between Us: Long distance love is tough. . . when one of you is on Mars

Neil WelchFebruary 20, 2017

16 year old Gardner finally gets to visit Earth, having been born on Mars. He has two things in sight: finding his father, and meeting up with Tulsa, a secret i...

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3.0

Underworld: Blood Wars movie review

Neil WelchJanuary 30, 2017

The 5th film in the Underworld franchise sees the Vampires and Lycans more at odds than ever. Selene is outlawed, everyone wants to find her pure-crossbreed dau...

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4.0

Passengers: drama, romance and action in this sci-fi mystery

Neil WelchDecember 30, 2016

The trailer for this film tells us that a man and a woman have been woken from suspended animation 30 years into a 120-year journey to a colony planet. With no ...

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4.5

Rogue One: a Star Wars Adventure

Neil WelchDecember 29, 2016

The Empire, in the early stages of constructing the Death Star, abducts architect Galen Urso, killing his wife and leaving his daughter Jyn to be brought up by ...

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4.5

Harry Potter without Harry Potter

Neil WelchNovember 27, 2016

Having been expelled from Hogwarts, Newt Scamander finds himself in 1920s New York with a suitcase full of magical wildlife. His intended quest is sidetracked w...

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5.0

Doctor Strange – so good I’m seeing it again

Neil WelchOctober 28, 2016

Surgeon Stephen Strange is a genius and he knows it: he is not given to false modesty. Or any modesty. When his hands, the tools of his trade, are irreparably i...

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3.0

Tom Hanks out to save the world in Da Vinci Code threequel

Neil WelchOctober 24, 2016

Heroic puzzle-solver Robert Langdon is faced with his trickiest problem yet – he has to find a plague virus which will wipe out half the world’s population, peo...

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4.0

Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children

Neil WelchOctober 10, 2016

Everyone thought Jake's grandfather was senile but, when he dies without his eyes, Jake is led to Miss Peregrine's orphanage, a sanctuary for children who are t...

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4.0

Sausage Party: food has never been so much fun!

Neil WelchOctober 7, 2016

Frank (a sausage) and Betty (a bun) are looking forward to finally getting more than just their tips together once they are purchased, and get to go to the grea...

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4.3

what will happen to Morgan in this sci-fi mystery?

Neil WelchOctober 2, 2016

Morgan is not the teenager she appears. Created with artificial DNA, and with a specialist sent from Head Office to review her following an incident which left ...

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4.8

Star Trek: Beyond comprehension?

Neil WelchJuly 30, 2016

The first film in the Star Trek reboot gave the Enterprise crew a much-needed origin and created an elegant transition from the original series to the reboot. T...

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4.5

Ghostbusters: triumphant reboot or feminist betrayal of a classic?

Neil WelchJuly 29, 2016

Erin goes to see her estranged childhood friend Abby over the sudden re-emergence of the book on ghosts which they co-wrote. This coincides with an outbreak of ...

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