Review

It’s certainly getting bigger, but is it getting better?

Ned heads for a fall

Poor, poor Alice. It’s not bad enough she lost her family, her home, and has been institutionalized for eleven years – no, now her only escape, Wonderland, is in shambles. To save her mind and her imaginary friends, she must get to the bottom of something – she’s not sure …

Slapping on a swaggering explanation mark, this Congolese crime rumble is just happy to be here. Fuelled by its own vagabond brand of Afro-exploitation, it sees smuggler raconteur Riva (Patsha Bay) arrive home with a stolen shipment of precious gasoline that makes him a boozing, womanising playa in corrupt Kinshasa. …

Ginnifer Goodwin’s helpless romantic is in love with her chiselled former study buddy Colin Egglesfield, but he’s just about to tie the knot with her best friend, Kate Hudson. What to do? In the world of Something Borrowed, the hypocrisy comes thick and fast as Goodwin jumps into bed with …

Unlike fellow Czech expat Milos Forman, Ivan Passer never saw his US career really take off. But he directed a subversive masterpiece in Cutter’s Way (1981) a paranoid noir thriller. One night Richard bone (Jeff bridges), a Santa Barbara gigolo, sees a mysterious figure dump a body in a trashcan. …

When Formula 1 legend Ayrton Senna died aged 34 in 1994, the route of his funeral cortege was lined by a million people. What drew so many? Was it the danger, the glamour, the wealth, the girls? Or was it because he was a nice guy who set up charity …

Kevin Bacon as a mutant Nazi! Rose Byrne in her pants! Nicolas Hoult done up like Sully from Monsters, Inc! And these aren’t even the best things about Matthew Vaughn’s vibrant, sprawling, ensemble origin story (well, maybe the Bacon bits…). A franchise reboot reminiscent of JJ Abrams’ 2009 Star Trek …

The skin we’re in 6.05 “The Rebel Flesh” Writer: Matthew Graham Director: Julian Simpson (opens in new tab) THE ONE WHERE A solar tsunami brings the Doctor, Amy and Rory to an acid pumping station, where the workers use a substance called “the Flesh” to create artificial doppelgangers (or “gangers”) …

Bald-headed bruiser Jason Statham is DS Tom Brant, a grizzled London copper who plays by his own rules, takes no prisoners and other assorted clichés, in Elliott Lester’s throwback of a serial-killer movie, based on the novel by Ken Bruen. A seedy, shirtless mass murderer calling himself The Blitz is …