Christina Newland

1 week ago | inews.co.uk | Christina Newland

There’s a good chance that even if you’re no scholar on Greek myth, you know a thing or two about The Odyssey. Homer’s epic – in which Odysseus and his men are lost among the arduous high seas and face monsters from sirens to the Cyclops – is familiar territory. But The Return, the thoughtful new film from Uberto Pasolini, is a psychologically focused feminist take on the myth, imagining what happened next.

3 weeks ago | inews.co.uk | Christina Newland

OK, bear with me: The End is a post-apocalyptic musical, which I know will send many people running for the door. Featuring Tilda Swinton and Michael Shannon living in what seems to be an underground bunker and with characters who never venture outdoors, it’s a film that boasts serious acting talent alongside a tone of surreal, bizarrely optimistic humour – its story told, of course, between bursts of song.

1 month ago | inews.co.uk | Christina Newland

A terse, darkly shrewd intelligence officer rocking a black roll-neck is surely the part Michael Fassbender was born to play. Combining macho calm with a coolly appraising gaze, he strides through sexy spy thriller Black Bag knowing he simply can’t afford to trust anyone. From Ocean’s 11 and Logan Lucky filmmaker Stephen Soderbergh, the movie plays cat-and-mouse spy games a la John le Carré but has a self-awareness that keeps it fresh.

1 month ago | inews.co.uk | Christina Newland

I know a thing or two about having strong opinions on what is being transmitted into my living room – after all, I’m a born-and-bred American who grew up watching my dad shout at the Super Bowl. The Oscars is my Super Bowl: they are both glitzy, overlong American broadcasts featuring endless spectacle and distraction, beaming over to British TV at unsociable late-night hours and leading people to swear at their screens.

1 month ago | inews.co.uk | Christina Newland

What a career Pamela Anderson has had, from world’s biggest pin-up to unwilling tabloid victim to comeback queen with a bombshell memoir – 2023’s Love, Pamela – telling her side of the story. She has thoroughly earned her goodwill – and in The Last Showgirl, as a Las Vegas dancer whose glittering revue show “Le Razzle Dazzle” is being shut down after three decades of success, she gives a wonderful, delicate performance as a woman eaten up by the superficial pressures of showbiz.