Calum Cooper

1 week ago | cineramafilm.com | Calum Cooper

Peter Cattaneo’s The Penguin Lessons, starring Steve Coogan, is now showing in cinemas nationwide. ⭐⭐⭐ Rating: 3 out of 5. While watching Peter Cattaneo’s The Penguin Lessons, I was acutely reminded of 1989’s Dead Poets Society, and 2024’s I’m Still Here. Tonally and narratively, they are polar opposites, but The Penguin Lessons fuses their essences for its own end.

1 week ago | cineramafilm.com | Calum Cooper

Ray Mendoza and Alex Garland’s Warfare, starring D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai, Will Poulter, Cosmo Jarvis, Kit Connor, Finn Bennett, Joseph Quinn and Charles Melton, is now showing in cinemas nationwide. ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Rating: 4 out of 5. Although we have many testimonies to describe the realities of war, it’s a feeling that few can truly understand unless they’ve been in combat. This is a sentiment that Warfare fully appreciates.

2 weeks ago | cineramafilm.com | Calum Cooper |Neil Baker

James Hawes’ The Amateur, starring Rami Malek, is released in cinemas nationwide on 11 April. ⭐⭐⭐ Rating: 3 out of 5. Vengeance is not an uncommon theme within gritty pictures. From classic noirs like The Big Heat to Bond movies like Quantum of Solace, revenge makes for a compelling character motivation and an identifiable angle for audiences to invest in. Who hasn’t wanted vengeance in at least some capacity, after all?

2 weeks ago | cineramafilm.com | Neil Baker |Calum Cooper

Doctor Who (season two), starring Ncuti Gatwa and Varada Sethu, premieres on 12 April 2025 on BBC iPlayer and BBC One in the UK and Disney+ outside of the UK (where available). It’s time to set your alarms! The Doctor (Ncuti Gatwa) is returning to your screens, this time with a new addition to the TARDIS, Belinda Chandra (Varada Sethu). Audiences will join The Doctor on an epic quest to get Belinda back to Earth.

1 month ago | cineramafilm.com | Neil Baker |Calum Cooper

Seven Drunken Nights: The Story of the Dubliners is now touring the United Kingdom and Ireland until 7 June 2025. For tour dates and tickets, visit the official website. ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Rating: 4 out of 5. When The Ronnie Drew Ballad Group formed in Dublin back in 1962, I wonder whether any of the founding members, Ronnie Drew, Luke Kelly, Barney McKenna or Ciarán Bourke, dreamed they would perform on the David Frost Show live in New York just six years later.