Movie Reviews

It’s been three long years since Maggie Smith’s tart-tongued matriarch, Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham, got off one of her memorable zingers. So it must be time for “Downton Abbey: A New Era” (Focus).

“The Ipcress File,” director Sidney J. Furie’s 1965 adaptation of Len Deighton’s 1962 espionage novel, provided Michael Caine with one of his signature roles as British operative Harry Palmer and won BAFTA’s Best Film award.

There’s some good news about the evangelical comedy “Family Camp” (Roadside): Predictably, it’s almost squeaky clean and thus appropriate for a wide range of age groups.

The documentary is scheduled to be screened Monday-Tuesday, May 16-17.

Like its 1984 predecessor helmed by Mark Lester, “Firestarter” (Universal), director Keith Thomas’ screen version of Stephen King’s sci-fi horror novel, features an abundance of pyrotechnic special effects.

Available on Netflix, the surprisingly intimate and compelling docuseries airs in four one-hour installments.

Truly, this is a maddening, multidimensional, decidedly strange, yet typically “Marvel”-ous movie based on the comic book series.

Set at the turn of the 10th century, the Viking epic “The Northman” (Focus) seeks to immerse viewers in the Nordic culture of that era.