Far-fetched and ham-fisted, the grim fantasy Antebellum (Lionsgate) is marked by an outlook on timely racial issues that lacks both balance and a humane spirit.

The early medieval Ballad of Mulan tells of the exploits of a heroine who, disguised as a man, distinguished herself as a warrior.

Sixty years ago, Rod Taylor hopped on a fancy sled for a loopy journey into the future in The Time Machine. Twenty-five years later, Michael J Fox went in the opposite chronological direction – with a DeLorean and much more comedy – in Back to the Future.

Billed as the 13th and final instalment of the X-Men film series, The New Mutants (20th Century) slams the lid on the coffin of a once-mighty franchise with a resounding thud.

Fatima (Picturehouse), a fact-based drama from director and co-writer Marco Pontecorvo, recounts what may rank as the most remarkable series of religious events of modern times.
Namely, the 1917 apparitions of the Virgin Mother Mary (Joana Ribeiro) to three shepherd children near the Portuguese city of the title.

Those chafing under the travel restrictions imposed by the current pandemic may take comfort from The Rental (IFC), the story of an oceanside getaway gone fatally wrong.

Margot Robbie stars in a scene from the movie "Harley Quinn: Birds of Prey". Photo: Warner Bros/CNS. By John Mulderig The DC Comics adaptation Harley Quinn: Birds of Prey (Warner Bros) is presumably intended as a tart treat. Instead, it comes across as a sour exercise in random mayhem. Margot Robbie plays Quinn, the psychiatrist who fell for Batman's nemesis, the Joker, while treating...