Jeremy Aspinall

4 weeks ago | radiotimes.com | Jeremy Aspinall

The character of Miyagi has now passed away (Morita died in 2005), but his link to Karate Kid: Legends is established from the outset by a flashback from The Karate Kid Part II (1986), in which Mr Miyagi reveals the connection between karate and kung fu in his style of martial arts. "Two branches, one tree" is his mantra, and that becomes the motif of this sadly underwhelming next chapter in the franchise.

1 month ago | radiotimes.com | Jeremy Aspinall

The macabre methods of demise, the ominous atmosphere and a decent cast established the creepy template but over four further films, only the elaborate death-dealing carnage tended to stick in the memory, although Final Destination 5 (2011) did tie off at least one narrative loop. Now, 14 years after that fifth film comes this tension-filled reboot, only here Death is spreading his wings further than just a few frantic survivors of a crash or bridge collapse.

1 month ago | radiotimes.com | Jeremy Aspinall

Indeed, it is the absence of the Avengers that continues to loom over the world, much to the glee of Machiavellian new CIA Director Valentina Allegra de Fontaine (Julia Louis Dreyfus), who has been gathering power in the shadows since the character’s debut in 2021’s Black Widow.

Mar 13, 2025 | radiotimes.com | Jeremy Aspinall

The dilemma for George, a renowned mole hunter and walking lie detector, is that she’s one of the five listed suspects and he only has a week to catch the culprit. Shades of wartime romantic thriller Allied, in which Brad Pitt has to determine if his French Resistance wife (played by Marion Cotillard) is really a German spy.

Feb 26, 2025 | radiotimes.com | Jeremy Aspinall

In The Brutalist, she plays wife to another creative genius, the tormented architect and Holocaust survivor László Tóth (Adrien Brody). Like her husband, Erzsébet was sent to a concentration camp and survived, albeit with ailing health, but is unable to join him in America until years after the War. Indeed, her first appearance is halfway through in the film, and yet she is the beating heart of the 215-minute epic.