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  © Lionsgate & Amazon Prime Fresh from  marrying Owen Wilson in one lame movie , it's good to see Jennifer Lopez stretching herself by marrying Josh Duhamel in another. If things had originally gone to plan, her latest onscreen nuptials would have been with Ryan Reynolds. When that didn't work out, it was due to be Armie Hammer until some rather unpleasant questions about his personal life derailed his career. Enter Josh Duhamel, one time star of the NBC series 'Las Vegas' and the 'Transformers' movies. © Lionsgate & Amazon Prime But let's not be hard on Duhamel for inheriting this role when there are plenty of other reasons to rant and rage about this terrible excuse for an action comedy. As Pomona pointed out last month, J-Lo is no stranger to the wedding genre, having been in seven previous films where her characters were planning to go up the aisle. You can almost feel the writer of 'Shortgun Wedding,' though, Mark Hammer wetting himself

© Netflix It takes a brave person to make a comedy about race in the US. But that's what Kenya Barris, the creator of 'Blackish' and Jonah Hill have set out to do in a Netflix movie. Barris has directed and co-written with Hill a film that directly addresses issues like white liberals' gauche attempts to convince African Americans they are not racist and anti-Semitic attitudes in the black community. The challenge they have set themselves is: can they wring humour out of these very disturbing problems? © Netflix Barris and Hill have recruited Eddie Murphy, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and David Duchovny for their ambitious comedy. Hill also stars in the film as Ezra Cohen, a 35 year old Jewish man who, when he is not working as a financial broker in LA, co-hosts  podcast with his best friend Sam Jay's Mo on music, fashion and race. Sam's mum, Julia Louis-Dreyfus' Shelley Cohen worries about him and is desperate to see her son settle down. When she is not berating him

© Disney+ Mary McCartney's Disney+ documentary 'If These Walls Could Sing' has a very simple pitch. Let's celebrate London's Abbey Road Studios because it's a very special place. The studios are, of course, special. After all, they're synonymous with the band that made her father famous, The Beatles - even inspiring the title of one of their albums. © Disney+ But over the years Pink Floyd, Elton John, Shirley Bassey, Jimmy Page, Burt Bacharach, Cliff Richard, Kanye West, Kate Bush, Nile Rodgers, the film composer John Williams and Oasis have recorded there. So McCartney has assembled most of them to wax lyrical about the world's most famous recording studio. The result is a pleasant 86 minute stroll through the studio's history, celebrating the great music that was recorded there and the people who shaped it. We learn Abbey Road was initially built for classical music recording, with its first occupant Sir Edward Elgar conducting the London Symphony

© Focus Features & Universal Pictures Should you separate works of art from the artist? That's a question loads of people have been asking in the era of #MeToo. It's been asked of painters, writers, singers, movie actors and directors. It is also a central question in Todd Field's Oscar nominated movie 'Tar' which charts the dramatic downfall of a celebrated classical conductor. © Focus Features & Universal Pictures Cate Blanchett delivers a towering performance as Lydia Tar, an arrogant yet undoubtedly gifted musician and Maestro at the Berlin Philharmonic who also has a pattern of questionable behaviour. The Australian's performance is so meticulous, so towering, so immersive that it may be the closest we have seen any actor come to matching Daniel Day Lewis' intensity since he retired from acting . It is also a huge performance in an impressive, yet unquestionably flawed film.  When we first see Tar in Field's third feature, she is asleep on a

© 20th Century Studios   Review By Chris Pitt James Cameron's ' Avatar: The Way of Water' has taken 13 years to follow its record-breaking predecessor. The sequel to ' Avatar ' - the biggest grossing movie of all time - has landed in cinemas with confident talk of new innovations in performance capture technology and plans for at least two more sequels. With a build up like that, surely James Cameron has to deliver a spectacular success. But does he? © 20th Century Studios Sadly, no. For those unfamiliar with the first 'Avatar' film, Cameron's story was set on the moon of Pandora where humans were looking to exploit the natural resources around them by deploying scientists and a squadron of marines to crush all resistance. As they plundered the planet, their military industrial forces came up against the Na’vi, a tribe of giant, blue native people who weren't going to let humans destroy their natural habitat. As Cameron's film developed, Sam Wort