Renton reunites with Spud, Sick Boy and Begbie in a Trainspotting sequel that’s split fans into two camps: “happy to see the lads again” vs “you can’t go back”. “A more focused and mature movie than the first, without any of the bite,” says Nick; “Danny Boyle has pulled through with what I genuinely think is the classiest, most thoughtful and complex sequel I’ve ever seen,” writes Beth.

The volleyball from Cast Away finally gets his own movie! Lolz no, we wish. But Wilson—with Woody Harrelson in misanthrope-mode—looks like a bunch of fun anyway, especially for those who love the graphic novels of Daniel Clowes.

Holy plantations, Kidman and Dunst in Sofia Coppola’s The Beguiled do not look like the kinds of southern women Colin Farrell wants to mess with. Maybe he chose the wrong house? After all, Clint Eastwood has been here before. Coming in June 2017.

Speaking of Clint, his son Scott is one of the newbies buckling up for Fate of the Furious, along with famous public transport advocate Helen Mirren.

Where do you even begin with such a mean-spirited film? The disgusting attitude to people with mental health issues? The paper-thin plot involving James McAvoy kidnapping three young women for a vague ceremony and creating the most contrived reason possible for them to strip off their clothes? The terrible acting? The fact it’s all ugly as sin? The cameo from the director of this rubbish that made me want to throw my shoe at the screen? So much rubbish. Rotten, […] putrid awfulness, do not go and see this film. —Matthew Lawrence

Throughout the movie: “Oh, yea, this is pretty good. Pacing is a little off in parts, but I’m in. I’d give it maybe 3.5 stars, possibly 4 if I’m feeling generous.” Last 30 seconds: “Here, take all the stars. Take them. Just shut up and take them. All the stars ever.” —Geoffrey Young Haney

I find the beautification of rock music to be a tad misguided, but the intention here with the lush cinematography and adoring close ups runs in contrast to the stories in the backstage where the members of The Band discuss the road and what it does to a musician. “This lifestyle will kill you.” This inserts a real sense of melancholy in the proceedings that actually makes the concert footage seem more like a funeral dirge. It’s a celebration, but a death all the same, and “I Shall Be Released” is surely its heaven. —Willow Catelyn

Millennial news flash: the hype is real about Clark Gable.

I think there’s a perfectly valid reading of this movie that sees Gable’s character as a borderline-abusive mansplainer (a term that I don’t think is very useful but it kind of applies here) who ends up rewarded with the woman he antagonizes for the entire film. However, I also think there’s [an] enormous amount of shrewd eye-rolling on the part of Claudette Colbert here—she masterfully leads Gable’s cocksure arrogance on, setting him up to make a fool of himself again and again with a stifled laugh as the couple compete for petty situational dominance.

Throughout the film, Gable masks his manipulation and condescension with the chivalrous air of gentlemanly obligation to a woman in trouble, but she is playing him all the while. This is the only rationalization I can come up with for her overwhelming love for him in the third act—she has been thirsty for Gable from the jump, but keeps him oblivious until he’s been thoroughly smitten. —Andrew Swafford

The synopsis of this film sells it short. It’s not merely a nature attacks! film. Or even an environmentalist film. Generally, the reason to revise those types of films is for the kills, the creatures, or the hard-to-decipher political message. But this movie does not pay off in those areas. Instead, the soul of this movie is the marriage being torn apart. We are allowed to empathize and be annoyed with the husband and the wife. The infidelity, lying, and unwanted pregnancy give the film an emotional backbone apart from all of the falling branches, kamikaze birds, and snarling dogs. But that’s not to say this is a Lifetime drama either… Do not be fooled by the silly premise. This movie is well made. The actors are a cut above your general exploitation fare, the cinematography looks great, and the droning score just never even hints that anything is going to be okay. Moral: avoid highway marsupials. —Jimmy

Are you doing the Cult Movie Challenge this year?

There’s a whopping amount of Acca Dacca in this epic list of rock films, one of Darren Fx’s many comprehensive lists of music movies. Other genres include metal, punk, electronic and rap and hip hop.

Steve G has followed up his insanely popular list of films where a character’s hearing is briefly impaired, which leads us to hearing “EEEEEEEEEEEE” for a few seconds to symbolize this, with this list of movies where the director (or scriptwriter) can’t be bothered to show a character dying properly, so they just have them cough some blood into a hankie or have a nosebleed.

We, too, are suckers for films with unusual aspect ratios.

It’s the ear-worm you never wanted but you’ll love anyway. Here is Those Eyebrows’ ingenius, crowd-sourced list of movies that would more or less scan the same but arguably make for more interesting replacements for the titular film referenced in the chorus of Deep Blue Something’s 1995 hit single “Breakfast at Tiffany’s”. Remember the film?

Who doesn’t love a freeze-frame ending at the end of a coming-of-age film?