Tony Stamp

Any movie that’s this dedicated to upping the absurdity is to be commended.

As Tom Cruise’s long run as Ethan Hunt approaches its end, we assess how the latest instalment measures up.

Lithgow demolishes his psychopathic role in The Rule of Jenny Pen, sporting gnarled fake teeth, eerie blue contacts, and an impressive New Zealand accent.

Before the next course hits the table, we reflect on what’s made The Bear such great telly.

Park Chan-wook and Don McKellar are showrunners on adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.

Things get pretty gnarly by the end of the Cairnes bros.’ retro romp, and genre fans will leave satisfied.

We celebrate Oldboy’s birthday by revisiting the entertaining and stomach-churning modern classic.

The ironic detachment is dialled down a bit, and the results are all the more satisfying.

It’s a show dripping with talent – Nathan Fielder, Emma Stone, Benny Safdie and… Corbin Bernsen?

The rest of this mankind vs AI pic doesn’t live up to director Gareth Edwards’ massive gift for visuals.

With help from Nathan Fielder and HBO, and collecting footage with patience and fortitude, How To is unlike anything else.

Contains eye-popping colours, wobbly dubbing, nudity and leather-gloved killers.

“There’s no point in having an anthology show if you can’t break your own rules.”

Another of the familiar, inoffensive, mid-level action thrillers Netflix has gotten quite proficient at.

In Barry’s final season Bill Hader has truly found his voice – and the show’s reached its final form.

“Listen to what I’m going to make a film about. Are you not curious to watch it? Don’t you want to see what it looks like when I’m finished?”

Less about the threat of the undead, video game adaptation is more concerned with the living.

Our reviewer experiences that rare wonder: sitting in a full theatre feeling genuinely terrified.

“To call it over the top is an understatement.”

“Almost feels desperate in its attempts to entertain – fights, special effects, and jokes, jokes, jokes.”

With a new live-action series coming, and a key sequence by Mad God’s Phil Tippett, it’s the perfect time to revisit Willow.