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Disclosure Day (2026)

  • Director: Steven Spielberg
  • Screenplay: David Koepp
  • Story: Steven Spielberg
  • Producer: Kristie Macosko Krieger, Steven Spielberg
  • Cast: Emily Blunt, Josh O’Connor, Colin Firth, Eve Hewson, Colman Domingo
  • Cinematography: Janusz Kaminski
  • Editing: Sarah Broshar
  • Score: John Williams
  • Genre: Science fiction thriller
  • Runtime: 145 minutes

Steven Spielberg is back on familiar ground with another tale of life beyond the stars. He’s helmed UFO classics like ‘Close Encounters of the Third Kind‘, ‘E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial‘, ‘War of the Worlds‘ and, er, ‘Indiana Jones 4‘. He’s clearly a true believer that we are not alone in the universe.

The film follows a whistleblower, Daniel (Josh O’Connor), on a mission to expose the shocking truth: our planet has had contact with alien lifeforms for decades and we’ve not always been the most humane hosts to our galactic brethen. Daniel reckons it’s vital this information is made public. But who’s to say it’s his right to do so? Such an earth-shattering divulgence could have the power to dismantle an already unstable society.

While on the lam, Daniel looks out the window of the abandoned farmhouse he’s laying low in. He sees deer staring into his soul as if they’re trying to convey a message telepathically. Close encounters of the herd kind? It’s not just the animals acting odd. Over in Kansas City, weather presenter Margaret (Emily Blunt) begins communicating in a language consisting of clicks live on air. Not exactly normal behaviour, so her outburst means she’s another person being pursued by the villainous Wardex Corporation.

‘Disclosure Day‘ has all the components to make a darn good caper. Namely, a top-notch cast (Blunt, O’Connor, Eve Hewson, Colman Domingo), a convincing baddie (Colin Firth), Spielberg’s masterful direction and a score from John Williams. There’s a real sense of thrill and peril in the first half until the perfectly balanced house of cards comes tumbling down. A promising start gets mired in nonsense about extraterrestrial gifts and a faux revelatory moment we’re supposed to be enraptured by.

My rating: 6 / 10

The Devil Wears Prada 2 (2026)

  • Director: David Frankel
  • Screenplay: Aline Brosh McKenna
  • Cast: Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt, Stanley Tucci
  • Cinematography: Florian Ballhaus
  • Editing: Andrew Marcus
  • Score: Theodore Shapiro
  • Genre: Comedy-drama
  • Runtime: 119 minutes

As much as I enjoyed the original ‘The Devil Wears Prada‘, I do have to question the necessity for a sequel. Andy (Hathaway) had survived the toxic sphere of Miranda Priestley (Streep) and grown into her own person. This season’s trend: the notion of change. It comes in various forms, meaning the plot is an unfocused scattering of ideas.

Physical media is dying out; hard copies of magazines are a thing of the past. Everything is online these days. The way we consume information has evolved – we don’t read, we scroll. The command the old guard has on the fashion world is diminishing. Miranda Priestley isn’t as young as she once was. She’s regarded as “a relic”, “a dinosaur” (would male editors be referred to by such terms?). The current climate is less forgiving. Miranda has found herself in the midst of a controversy regarding the use of sweatshops in the fashion industry. Not directly her fault but guilty by association. In strolls a confident (yet recently laid off) Andy to redeem Runway’s tarnished reputation with her ‘expertise’. How the tables have turned.

Some things stay the same – Miranda is just as unmannerly as before, though with this shift in power dynamic, she feels less formidable; a queen on a rotting throne. Emily Blunt (as Emily Charlton, now a senior executive at Dior) still has that hilarious deadpan wit and Stanley Tucci (playing Nigel) is as dapper as ever.

It’s not a patch on the previous film but there were huge Manolo Blahniks to fill. It is great to see the foursome act together onscreen again. Streep in particular; it’s her first live-action role on the silver screen in five years. The actors’ wardrobes are très chic and everyone looks a million bucks.

That’s all.

My rating: 7 / 10