Film noir – Late to the Movies
Welcome to this month's Late To The Movies, a journey through the history of cinema. Last month’s film selection explored the shifting moral and emotional landscape of the 1940s – the quiet...
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“Well written and nuanced”: Wasteman review
The British prison movie genre, like its wayward cousin on the outside, the British gangster genre, is more sparsely populated than you’d think. The (un) holy trinity of McVicar, A Sense of...
The 5 most anticipated action movies of March 2026
There is unparalleled pleasure in watching Hollywood's biggest stars perform amazing stunts from the comfort of a theater seat or a cozy sofa at home. It is that rush of pure adrenaline that keeps us...
Trainspotting 30 years later: 10 surprising facts about a cult classic
Three decades ago, Ewan McGregor's Mark Renton decided to ‘choose life’, and cinema will never be able to thank him enough. The odyssey of this young Scotsman, whose only ambition was to sink...
March 2026: The best TV and streaming premieres
This March is shaping up to be an important month for television and streaming, with an exciting list of premieres that promise to take over our screens. Over the coming weeks, we'll see a wide...
Great Adaptations: Dissolution (Shardlake) on screen
This month’s Five Books For theme is historical detectives and it has a kind of inevitability about it, given that detective fiction is my favourite genre - and there are so many wonderful books to...
New ways of seeing: neurodiverse documentaries to watch
“Rubik’s Cube meets Rothko” is how Mark Cousins describes the style of Wilhelmina Barns-Graham (1912-2004), “one of the foremost abstract British artists” (per Wikipedia), though certainly...
From Solteras to Contigo en el futuro: 6 of the best Mexican rom-coms
Forget Hollywood classics like Pretty Woman or 10 Things I Hate About You for a moment, because 2026 is the perfect time to give Mexican romance a chance. Whether you're single or happily coupled up,...
From page to screen: 5 romance novels that just really, really work on TV
The boom in TV series that are based on romantic novels has not happened by accident. Readers have spent years longing for adaptations that honor the emotional pulse of the stories and don’t reduce...
Loss of Innocence: Cinema in the 1940s – Late to the Movies
If the 1930s were Hollywood’s decade of confidence, then the 1940s are when that confidence begins to fracture. This is not an era defined by a single style or movement, but by a gradual shift in...