All articles by Kim Newman
Venom: Let There Be Carnage serves up a strangely affecting superhero sequel
Weird humour and repetitive plot points aside, Tom Hardy’s monster cum-hero-duo of Eddie Brock and Venom creates a believable emotional core for this action-packed sub-franchise.
By Kim Newman
No Time to Die brings Daniel Craig’s tenure as Bond to a disappointing end
By Kim Newman
Boys from County Hell reawakens a bloodthirsty beast under an Irish bypass
By Kim Newman
The Suicide Squad regroups its gang of DC supervillains for a US cover-up mission
By Kim Newman
Black Widow fails to balance low key pseudo-familial bickering with CGI-smashing action
By Kim Newman
Loki confronts the God of Mischief with alternative versions of himself
By Kim Newman
Freaky puts a horror villain into the final girl’s shoes
By Kim Newman
Fast & Furious 9 may be nonsensical, but it has heart
By Kim Newman
Fatima witnesses a holy apparition in wartime
By Kim Newman
Vile VHS: unspooling the history of the ‘video nasty’ controversy
By Kim Newman
Cruel Britannia: six British ‘video nasties’
By Kim Newman
The Night fills a haunted hotel with manifestations of migrant paranoia
By Kim Newman
Godzilla vs. Kong is a giant alpha-male roughhouse
By Kim Newman
The Falcon and the Winter Soldier keeps Captain America’s special friends in harness
By Kim Newman
WandaVision presents a bold, old-school spin on Marvel stalwarts
By Kim Newman
A Ghost Waits joins the ranks of classic supernatural romances
By Kim Newman
Sweet Home is a Korean horror fantasy uncannily of its moment
By Kim Newman
Remake/remodel: 45 weird and wonderful alternative film cuts
By James Bell, Tom Charity and others
The Queen’s Gambit is an intoxicating chess thriller
By Kim Newman
His House gives a displaced couple no happy home
By Kim Newman
The female gaze: 100 overlooked films directed by women
By Isabel Stevens, Bryony Dixon and others
The Painted Bird review: a stately, pitiless vision of innocence crushed by war
By Kim Newman
The New Mutants review: X-Men spinoff traps super-teens in a haunted house horror
By Kim Newman
Forgotten treasures of the multiplex
By Ryan Gilbey, Nick James and others
Dark: Season 3 review – an infinite loop in a small town
By Kim Newman