Robbie Collin

A mid-July morning on Scotland's Moray Coast near Inverness: the sky was pewter, the sea mountainous, the rain horizontal.

“Them say that tennis is better played on grass,” rang out the familiar Home Counties-via-Jamaica baritone from an Instagram panel, “which is why I intend to sell as much of it while I is here”.

“Start from where you will,” Homer’s anonymous narrator exhorts his muse at the beginning of his Odyssey: “Sing for our time too.” In other words: let’s keep it fresh, shall we? Three millennia later,...

“Start from where you will,” Homer's anonymous narrator exhorts his muse at the beginning of his Odyssey . “Sing for our time too.”

Robbie Collin The Odyssey is by far and away the most anticipated film release of 2026 – in other words, business as usual for Christopher

It took Odysseus 20 years to secure his kingdom: one decade of thumping Trojans, then another on the eventful homeward commute.

Robbie Collin “Notice,” runs the disclaimer in sombre white-on-black capitals: “Not even one foot of newsreel documentary film is included in this picture.”

With Tom Holland on sparkling form, Brand New Day restores the endearing gawkiness and pep the franchise has been missing

When reviewing a film, most of us critics know we should try to meet it more or less where it is: it would be odd to grouse that Bridget Jones's

Dressed in a blue velvet tailored suit and with ombré hair tumbling down to her shoulders, Olivia Wilde cut a commanding figure.