Unintended comedy paces the boredom-inducing banality of this follow-up to a 2018 feature about the accidental unleashing of an outsized prehistoric shark.
Just as its protagonist had his highs and lows, so Christopher Nolan’s three hour-long film Oppenheimer has its strong passages and weaker chapters.
In a hardscrabble neighbourhood of 1967 Dublin, best friends Lily (Maggie Smith) and Eileen (Kathy Bates) excitedly prepare to journey to the sacred destination in the company of a third pal, Dolly (Agnes O’Casey).
For Jim Caviezel, portraying Ballard – and replicating his dramatic real-life rescues of enslaved children – is a role second only to that of playing Jesus in The Passion of the Christ, with a similarly compelling mission.
With Ford now on the verge of his 81st birthday comes Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (Disney). How does this fifth and presumably final outing for the nonchalantly heroic protagonist measure up to its generally illustrious forebears?
Slow Cooked Beef Rendang (Spicy Indonesian Beef Curry)
Using technology not available in the waning days of the Cold War, director Rob Marshall and his team serve up a charming fresh take on the timeless story.
The 10th direct instalment of the “Fast & Furious” car-racing franchise features the clan’s patriarch, Dom Toretto (Vin Diesel), going up against Dante Reyes (Jason Momoa), the scion of a Brazilian drug-dealing dynasty.
Raised amid hardscrabble circumstances, George Foreman, played by Khris Davis, is anxious to please his strong-willed mother Nancy (Sonja Sohn) by realising his potential. What may surprise viewers who haven’t followed the titular fighter’s career closely is the strong – indeed, transformative – role that faith has played in his biography.
As leader of the titular team of miscellaneous superheroes, Peter is naturally alarmed when a previously unknown enemy endowed with mighty fighting prowess suddenly invades the ensemble’s headquarters, Knowhere.