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Step Up: All In
Step Up movies are known for their trite, formulaic plots and eye-catching dance set-pieces, and this instalment in the series certainly won't disappoint the fans. What makes this one slightly more fun is the fact...
Movie Review posted on 1st August 2014
A Promise
When a French filmmaker travels to Belgium to film a German story in English, it's hardly surprising that the resulting movie feels somewhat awkward. Fortunately, the filmmaker in question is the detail-oriented Patrice Leconte (The...
Movie Review posted on 1st August 2014
Mood Indigo
After a string of projects in America (including the masterpiece Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind), French filmmaker Michel Gondry returns home to let his manic imagination run wild. This film is a riot of...
Movie Review posted on 31st July 2014
Behaving Badly
For a comedy that so desperately wants to be rude and sexy, this movie is remarkably timid. It does a great job putting up a front as an anarchic laugh riot, but the genuinely funny...
Movie Review posted on 31st July 2014
Guardians of the Galaxy
By refusing to follow the usual formula, filmmaker James Gunn has made Marvel's best-yet movie, a summer action-adventure that provides more cinematic fun than the rest of the year's blockbusters rolled into one. It's shamelessly...
Movie Review posted on 31st July 2014
A Week In Movies: Guardians Holds Two Premieres, Plus First Glimpses Of Fifty Shades, The Imitation Game And Mad Max: Fury Road
In the wake of especially strong buzz from critics who have seen the film, the cast of assembled for their world premiere in Los Angeles this week, including Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Vin Diesel,...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 25th July 2014
'Joe' Is A Reminder That Nicolas Cage is a Great Actor
There are all kinds of theories about Nicolas Cage's acting style, usually centred on whether he has insane hair or not (he usually does). But the fact is that every now and then, in between...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 25th July 2014
'The Purge: Anarchy' Launches Another Grisly Franchise
Last year's sleeper hit The Purge was an unusually intelligent thriller starring Ethan Hawke as a security expert whose work is challenged by villains who target him on the one night of the year when...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 25th July 2014
Two 'Hercules' Movie Releases This Year. One is Very Good.
It happens almost every year: two films are released with virtually the same premise. Generally, one of them goes on to box office glory while fans remember the lesser-known film with fondness. This year, we...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 25th July 2014
Northwest
This Danish dramatic thriller may not be hugely original, but its story about teens caught in a spiral of drugs and crime is strikingly well told with a strong spark of authenticity. Filmmaker Michael Noer...
Movie Review posted on 25th July 2014
Believe
With its heart in the right place, this charming British football drama overcomes a script that frequently drifts into sentimentality and corny plotting. But the story is involving, and the cast is particularly good. So...
Movie Review posted on 25th July 2014
Hercules
Far more entertaining than it has any right to be, this is a big, messy blockbuster retelling of the Greek myth that thankfully has a sharp sense of humour and some surprising twists up its...
Movie Review posted on 25th July 2014
Joe
Nicolas Cage gives a rare internalised performance in this atmospheric drama, which has a stronger sense of its location than it does of its story. It's been so long since Cage has been this good...
Movie Review posted on 25th July 2014
The Purge: Anarchy
After last year's break-out hit thriller, writer-director James DeMonaco is back with the flip-side of the story, which jettisons the irony and and thematic subtlety in favour of in-your-face brutality. This time the account of...
Movie Review posted on 24th July 2014
Who Is Dayani Cristal?
Actor-producer Gael Garcia Bernal takes a strikingly complex look at the timely issue of human migration from Central America to the United States, which is rarely depicted with such honest humanity. By exploring three sides...
Movie Review posted on 24th July 2014
A Week In Movies: Hudson Wows New York, Planes And Pudsey Premiere, Plus New Trailers For Cave, Knightley And Witherspoon
A sleek and sexy Kate Hudson wowed the red carpet at the New York premiere of her new film Wish I Was Here. She was accompanied on the night by director-cowriter-star Zach Braff as well...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 18th July 2014
Pudsey The Dog: The Movie Cashes in on a Reality Star
Over the past decade or so, filmmakers have been cashing in on the success of British TV comedies while trying to earn a bit of box office glory. The uniting feature behind these movies is...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 18th July 2014
Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes Redfines Motion Capture
Motion-capture technology has come a long way since it was first used in a major release for the 2001 sci-fi adventure Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within. But in that movie as well as Robert Zemeckis'...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 18th July 2014
Pudsey the Dog: The Movie
With inept directing and editing and an incoherent script, this film utterly wastes any chance to create a charming little movie around the winner of 2012's Britain's Got Talent competition. Among a multitude of filmmaking...
Movie Review posted on 18th July 2014
Norte, The End of History
At four hours long, this film isn't for casual moviegoers, but fans of ambitious cinema will enjoy its scale, even though it's more of an extended personal drama than a proper epic. Filipino filmmaker Lav...
Movie Review posted on 18th July 2014
Big Joy: The Adventures of James Broughton
It's fitting that filmmakers Stephen Silha and Eric Slade assemble this documentary with as much colourful poetry as they can muster, because the subject matter was a remarkably life-loving man whose impact on the arts...
Movie Review posted on 18th July 2014
SuperMensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon
For his lively film directing debut, Mike Myers (aka Austin Powers) traces the remarkable life of his friend, the almost too-likeable music manager Shep Gordon. A mensch is a really nice guy, and this film...
Movie Review posted on 17th July 2014
Earth to Echo
The filmmakers behind this pre-teen adventure admit that they were trying to combine the magic of E.T., Stand by Me and The Goonies, but they've forgotten that none of those complex, deeply involving classics ever...
Movie Review posted on 17th July 2014
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
Director Matt Reeves (Cloverfield) ramps up this reboot franchise with a strikingly well-written action-drama, which takes an unusually complex route through the story. By refusing to have any simplistic villains, the film encourages viewers to...
Movie Review posted on 17th July 2014
A Week In Movies: Gibson's Major Award, Special Screenings In New York, Set Photos From London And Three Big Trailers
This is a week when most attention was on the sporting world, with the Wimbledon finals, the Formula One British Grand Prix and the Tour de France starting in Britain, and of course the World...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 11th July 2014
Rage
Nicolas Cage acts his socks off in this thinly plotted thriller, which is set in the same moral universe as the Taken movies, where mass murder is excusable if your daughter's been kidnapped. Despite a...
Movie Review posted on 11th July 2014
Love Me Till Monday
Refreshingly avoiding the usual romantic-comedy formula, this low-key British film has an enjoyably loose tone even if it sometimes feels rather random in its approach to the story. Drawing on the age-old idea of a...
Movie Review posted on 11th July 2014
I Am Divine
With an appropriate explosion of humour and colour, this documentary traces the life of a fiercely individualistic actor, digging beneath the surface to explore both his origins and his legacy. And frankly, it's about time...
Movie Review posted on 11th July 2014
TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION defies critics
Michael Bay's Transformer movies are unique in that they always get bad reviews but make a fortune at the box office. Is this just an example of critics being out of touch with audiences? Or...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 11th July 2014
How to Train Your Dragon 2
Bigger and even richer than the terrific 2010 hit animation, this sequel is also quite possibly the best action-adventure movie of the year. Not only are its big set-pieces thrillingly rendered with first-rate special effects,...
Movie Review posted on 11th July 2014
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