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…