Spider-Man: Brand New Day (2026) – Review by Andrea Carnevali
Spider-Man: Brand New Day ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Perhaps the greatest compliment I can pay it is this: after two hours and twenty minutes, I walked out wanting another adventure with Tom Holland’s […]
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The Odyssey (2026) – Review by Andrea Carnevali
Matt Damon as Odysseus The Odyssey ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️½ Christopher Nolan has found the right way to retell a story that’s nearly 3,000 years old and in the process has found something […]
The Invite (2026) – Review by Andrea Carnevali
The Invite ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ One of those increasingly rare films made for grown-ups: genuinely interested in adult relationships, long-term love, desire, frustration and all those awkward conversations that most films are […]
Cinema Paradiso (1988) – Chiswick Cinema Film Club – Review by Andrea Carnevali
Chiswick Cinema Film Club is on July 14. Get your ticket now: chiswickcinema.co.uk/movie/fifth-birthday-party-cinema-paradiso/ Cinema Paradiso ★★★★★ A true cinematic masterpiece that has lost none of its power to devastate and […]
Toy Story 5 (2026) – Review by Andrea Carnevali
Toy Story 5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️ ½ Not on the same level as the first three films, and so intent on making you feel something that it forgets how genuinely funny they […]
Widow’s Bay – TV review by Andrea Carnevali
Matthew Rhys as Tom Loftis in Widow’s Bay Widow’s Bay ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Genuinely funny, properly scary, and confidently strange: a show that lulls you into a mesmerised calm, somewhere between cosy […]
Toy Story (1995) – Review by Andrea Carnevali
Toy Story ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ This is a masterpiece. Not just in the Pixar catalogue, not just in animation, but in film history. There is no better excuse to re-watch this film […]
Masters of the Universe (2026) – Review by Andrea Carnevali
Nicholas Galitzine as He-Man Masters of the Universe ★★☆☆☆ A two-hour-twenty-minute He-Man film that can’t decide whether it wants to be parody, action thriller, or earnest fantasy, and ends up […]
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1976) – Chiswick Cinema Film Club – Review by Andrea Carnevali
Jack Nicholson as Randle McMurphy Chiswick Cineama Film Club is on June 17. Get your ticket now: chiswickcinema.co.uk/movie/one-flew-over-the-cuckoos-nest-50th-anniversary One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest ★★★★★ A true cinematic masterpiece that […]
Disclosure Day (2026) – Review by Andrea Carnevali
Josh O’Conner as Daniel Kellner and Emily Blunt as Margaret Fairchild Disclosure Day ★★★★☆ Spielberg at 80, still making audiences believe, still making eyes go moist, still doing wonder better […]
The Boroughs – Television review by Andrea Carnevali
Denis O’Hare, Alfred Molina and Geena Davis in The Boroughs The Boroughs ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ This new Netflix series is entertaining, eerie, heartfelt, and just clever enough to keep you hooked from […]
Savage House (2026) – Review by Andrea Carnevali
Claire Foy as Lady Savage and Richard E. Grant as Sir Chauncey Savage Savage House ⭐️⭐️½ A period satire about class anxiety, vanity, greed, and decay, which uses its 18th-century […]
The Invention of Lying (2009) – Review by Andrea Carnevali
Louis CK, Ricky Gervais and Jennifer Garner in The Invention of Lying The Invention of Lying ⭐️⭐️ A comedy full of genuinely interesting ideas, a sharp premise, and a great […]
Backrooms (2026) – Review by Andrea Carnevali
Backrooms ⭐️⭐️⭐️½ A horror film that starts with genuine brilliance, trusting empty space and wrong geometry to unsettle, before slowly losing confidence in its own premise. When I came into […]
Corpse Bride (2005) – Review by Andrea Carnevali
Corpse Bride ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Corpse Bride may just be Tim Burton’s very best film: every gothic, tender, macabre element comes together here in a way that feels genuinely complete, and a […]
Tuner (2026) – Review by Andrea Carnevali
Tuner ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ It may sound like a niche thriller on paper, but in practice Tuner is far more satisfying and entertaining than that: controlled, precise, and confident in its own […]
Romeo & Juliet – Harold Pinter Theatre review by Andrea Carnevali
Sadie Sink as Juliet and Noah Jupe as Romeo at the Harold Pinter Theatre, 2026 Romeo & Juliet ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Harold Pinter Theatre, London, 2026 Sadie Sink is absolutely brilliant as […]
The Crash (2026) – Review by Andrea Carnevali
The Crash ⭐️⭐️ The number one documentary on Netflix right now turns out to be one of the most predictable and unsatisfying true-crime films in recent memory: it gives you […]
The Fugitive (1993) – Review by Andrea Carnevali
The Fugitive ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️½ One of the great thriller double acts of the 90s: lean, tense, and enormously enjoyable, with Harrison Ford and Tommy Lee Jones operating at very different ends […]
The Mandalorian and Grogu (2026) – Review by Andrea Carnevali
The Mandalorian and Grogu; Lucasfilm Ltd The Mandalorian and Grogu ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Once a lone bounty hunter, Mandalorian Din Djarin and his apprentice Grogu embark on a new Star Wars adventure. Before […]
Stranger Things: Tales from ’85 – Review by Andrea Carnevali
Stranger Things: Tales from ’85 ⭐️⭐️⭐️ 1/2 Set in Hawkins, Indiana, in the winter of 1985, Eleven and her friends unravel a paranormal mystery terrorizing their town. This turned out to […]
Reawakening (2026) – Review by Andrea Carnevali
Juliet Stevenson and Jared Harris in Reawakening Reawakening ⭐️⭐️⭐️½ The kind of film that leaves a mark. It doesn’t hand you a neat solution; it gives you something harder to […]
Obsession (2026) – Review by Andrea Carnevali
Michael Johnston in Obsession Obsession ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ It’s very, very silly, but it’s silly with craft. Horror that’s aware of its own absurdity, and instead of collapsing into mockery, uses it […]
Dead Poets Society (1989) – Chiswick Cinema Film Club – Review by Andrea Carnevali
Dead Poets Society ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ If you need a reminder how cinema can really change people, this is the film. Some films entertain you for two hours, and that’s it. Dead […]
The Christophers (2026) – Review by Andrea Carnevali
Ian McKellen and Michaela Cole in The Christophers The Christophers ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ A quiet little gem, controlled, deeply intimate, and powered by performances that refuse to blur into background noise. Probably […]
Ocean’s Eleven (2001) – Review by Andrea Carnevali
George Clooney and Brad Pitt Ocean’s Eleven ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Still sharp, still stylish, still witty, still genuinely entertaining in the way only a great popcorn film can be. If you’ve got […]
Rocky II (1979) – Review by Andrea Carnevali
Sylvester Stallone and Carl Weathers Rocky II ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ This is the one where the franchise fully becomes… well, Rocky. The training montages, the dramatic slow-motion punches, the freeze frames, Bill […]
Michael Jackson: An American Tragedy (2026) – Review by Andrea Carnevali
Michael Jackson: An American Tragedy ⭐️⭐️⭐️½ A smart, controlled addendum to the sanitised film we have out in the cinemas right now. The series doesn’t ask you to clap or […]
Send Help (2026) – Review by Andrea Carnevali
Dylan O’Brien in Send Help Send Help ⭐️⭐️⭐️ It’ll probably play well to Raimi fans, especially those who miss the messier, meaner days. For everyone else, I suspect it’s a […]
“All My Sons” – National Theatre Live – Review by Andrea Carnevali
All My Sons” ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Bryan Cranston (Breaking Bad) and Marianne Jean-Baptiste (Hard Truths) feature in a five-star, triumphantly acclaimed new production of Arthur Miller’s classic play OK, I know I’m cheating […]
