Film Review

True excellence is vanishingly rare; then again, so is true awfulness. Holmes & Watson comes trailing some of the worst reviews in recent memory. A quick search on Metacritic produces …

The French comedy The Intouchables made over $400 million worldwide in 2011, and remains the third-biggest film of all time in France (after Titanic and Bienvenue chez les Ch’tis); but …

Aristocratic life in the Elizabethan era – that period in the latter half of the 16th century during Queen Elizabeth I’s reign – is ripe with cinematic fruit for the …

An article in The Guardian last week claimed 1999 as “the greatest year in modern cinema”, citing The Sixth Sense among the evidence to support that claim. M. Night Shyamalan …

Families come with their own in-built tension. A family lives by its daily routine, happy or unhappy – but it lives for the ruptures and crises (and accomplishments too, to …

Maya (Jennifer Lopez) has a problem: she’s lied her way into a high-powered job, and it’s only a matter of time before she gets found out. Maya has a dazzling …

Let’s face it, you already know if you’re part of the audience for a zombie horror musical comedy or not. Anna and the Apocalypse is Dawn of the Dead – …

You can guess the last two words spoken in Aquaman without even seeing the movie – especially if I mention that they’re spoken in voice-over. Seriously, think about it. What’s …

We seem to have hit Peak Superhero, both English-language new releases this week featuring title characters with ‘Man’ in their name. (The third one, White Fang, is dubbed into Greek.) …

Here’s another Young Adult novel (actually a series of novels) turned into a $100 million behemoth – but Mortal Engines the book was written in 2001, so it didn’t have …