Lethargically paced and inertly beautiful, Dennis Villeneuve’s DUNE arrives in cinemas frustratingly incomplete, disappointingly hollow and surprisingly hesitant in vision and execution. Threatened by the growing power of House Atreides, the galactic Emperor awards Duke Leto Atreides (Oscar Isaac) stewardship of the planet Arrakis, also known as Dune and the only source of the most valuable…

Disney and Marvel can at least rest easy: “Red Sparrow” certainly isn’t the “Black Widow” solo movie by another name its marketing might have initially suggested. Instead, it’s something of a convoluted pseudo- John le Carré caper which leans heavily on sex, nudity and violence to disguise its flimsy characters and overcomplicated espionage shell game. When Prima Ballerina Dominika Egorova…

Finally released on Special Edition Arrow Blu Ray on the 14th September, “Zardoz” is one of the Seventies’ most bizarre dystopian sci-fi curiosities (in a decade brimming with them), and possibly one of the strangest movies ever to come from a major studio. Coming off the disappointment of a proposed adaptation of “The Lord Of The Rings”, John Boorman opted to write, produce and direct a low…