The Eagle
After the huge success of Gladiator, much was expected of the sword and sandals epic. Troy rapidly followed, and then the genre...
View ArticleSource Code
Until Moon, Duncan Jones was better known as Zowie Bowie. Then he was a promising debut director, but many a promising debut is...
View Article13 Assassins
Takashi Miike has brought sensationally violent movies to the screen in the past, yet has always been driven by a desire to...
View ArticleWar of the Dead
Nazi zombies are possibly the most evil of monsters ever devised, repulsive in both looks and ideology, so War of the Dead...
View ArticleAttack the Block
Fans of The Adam and Joe Show will know that Joe Cornish has always harboured aspirations of becoming a fully-fledged...
View ArticlePirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
Oh, the irony... many condemned Disney's creative bankruptcy when they announced that they were releasing a film based on a game;...
View ArticleApocalypse Now
Apocalypse Now, Francis Ford Coppola's masterpiece, is the story of Colonel Benjamin Willard (Sheen), a special operations...
View ArticleTransformers: Dark of the Moon
It was at the 2009 Edinburgh Film Festival where I had the worst cinema experience of my life. With three hours to kill and...
View ArticleHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2
Seems hard to believe that we've had ten years of Harry Potter, harder still to believe that this is the boy wizard's final...
View ArticleBeautiful Lies
The traditional Hollywood romantic comedy, as a genre, is pretty much dead. Think of the latest iterations: woeful films like Amy...
View ArticleOne Day
The concept’s as high as an elephant’s eye; Emma (Hathaway) and Dexter (Sturgess) meet at university, and almost sleep together...
View ArticleA Dangerous Method
David Cronenberg has made a journey from the body horror of exploding heads and mutant powers via seedy underworlds to emerge at...
View ArticleThe Hunger Games
Suzanne Collin's trilogy, The Hunger Games, has frequently been compared to Twilight, mainly because they both feature teenage...
View ArticleStreet Dance 2
“Bigger, better, bolder, back.” The quote by the Sunday Mirror’s Mark Adams prominently emblazoned across the top of the poster...
View ArticlePrometheus
Prometheus takes us to the land (hypothetically speaking) of Arthur C Clarke, Carl Sagan, Isaac Asimov, how could I forget Erich...
View ArticleThe Amazing Spider-man
Yes, it's just five years since Sam Raimi concluded his trilogy of Spider-man movies, so you might expect this reboot to go down...
View ArticleThe Dark Knight Rises
On the bus today I noticed that every other bus was sporting advertising for a comic book adaptation. Many despair at the...
View ArticleSightseers
Ben Wheatley is carving out a name for himself as one of the most interesting British filmmakers of the decade, showing a flair...
View ArticleThe Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
‘In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit’. And in that hole, the elderly Bilbo Baggins (Holm) is writing his memoirs for his...
View ArticleOz: The Great and Powerful
Sam Raimi has described his take on L. Frank Baum’s stories as a “love poem” to 1939’s masterful The Wizard of Oz. If it’s a...
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