Alex B Cann film column - Thursday 30th October 2025

The Woman In Cabin 10 (Netflix) has racked up well over 30 million views on the streaming platform at the time of writing. Keira Knightley told Fabulous magazine that she loves a good thriller, and author Ruth Ware certainly wrote a cracking page-turner, which inspired this mildly enjoyable film. It also stars Ted Lasso's Hannah Waddingham and LA Confidential's Guy Pearce (Mike from Neighbours!). As Knightley's Guardian journalist character says, "people are capable of appalling things". Her premonition comes true, as she witnesses a woman being thrown overboard from a luxury liner that she

As Knightley's Guardian journalist character says, "people are capable of appalling things". Her premonition comes true, as she witnesses a woman being thrown overboard from a luxury liner that she's been invited on for a PR exercise to launch a new charity foundation. The only issue is, nobody else saw a thing, and she is left to try and uncover the truth amid a sea of gaslighting and fairly hammy acting.

Black Phone 2 takes the original in an interesting new direction, but I felt it lost some of the simplicity that made the first movie so good. Ethan Hawke is back as The Grabber, and the action shifts to an icy winter camp known as Alpine Lake. The isolated phone booth soon begins to ring, and it turns out that death is no barrier to the torment inflicted on Finn and his sister Gwen in her terrifying dreams (played by an excellent Madeline McGraw, who is a real standout). It's gory, but not that scary, I'm afraid.

Good Fortune should have done much better than it has, in my view. What's not to love about Keanu Reeves in a swimming pool with an inflatable dinosaur, as Sabrina's Boys appears in the soundtrack?! There are a few good needle drop moments in this tale of a frustrated angel Gabriel (Reeves) who is sick of just being in charge of preventing texting and driving, and wants to save a lost soul. It's a little It's A Wonderful Life, a little Freaky Friday, as Gabriel sets out to earn his wings and rescue a lost soul. Martha (Sandra Oh), his boss, is not happy about the life swap he arranges between a gig economy worker (Aziz Ansari) and a pampered venture capitalist (Seth Rogan). It has a lot of good stuff to say about the cost of living crisis and broken capitalism, but does it with unhectored humour.

Roofman sees an unlikely but true tale of a fugitive holed up in a Toys 'R' Us store, and falling in love with one of the shop's employees (Kirsten Dunst). Channing Tatum is brilliant at comedy, and the sight of him on the run whilst wearing a pink feather boa, or naked in the store when a shower is interrupted by the manager (Peter Dinklage) made me laugh out loud. Perhaps slightly longer than it needed to be, but best watched with a large bag of peanut M&Ms on the big screen.

And One Battle After Another boasts one of the best car chase scenes I've ever watched, and is best seen on the biggest screen possible. Powerful performances all round.