No major spoilers below, but you may want to remain in the dark until seeing it for yourselves. It’s hard to imagine a movie having higher expectations. Batmania has reached a peak not seen in decades. The Dark Knight became the rar...

The Hunger Games is a movie with a lot of attention on it as a result of the growing and increasingly fanatic fanbase that has sprung up around the book series. With such intense scrutiny and a horde of detail obsessed viewers ready to pick it apa...

In one sentence, this is the movie that Kingdom of the Cystal Skull should have been. Tintin is a movie with a rich pedigree behind it, and I’m not just talking about the popular series of comic books. In addition to the fine cast and Spielberg...

It’s been a few years since the lackluster third outing created a small blip on cinema screens before disappearing into blandness. Now the series returns with an animation director making his first foray into live action and a mostly new cast of c...

Revenge thrillers are an odd genre – they seem to appeal to mainstream and alternative film-makers alike. For every overblown Taken he also get the cool and artistic Hanna. This is the type of movie that is going to be praised by critics and still...

Among the first news that was released about this highly anticipated sequel to the surprise comedy hit was a quote from Bradley Cooper revealing that they were flying out to Thailand to begin filming. He didn’t supply us with any other information...

Pointless. An entire movie summed up in one word. The original Pirates… film defied expectations upon release and cemented it’s characters as pop-culture icons in the same way that The Matrix had done years earlier. Like The Matrix it also hurried...

If there’s one thing that Soderberg can do it’s put together a good ensemble. Unlike Tarantino, Smith and others, this doesn’t simply involve sending out a mass text message. For the most part these are people who’ve never worked with the director...

Paranormal Activity takes it's influence from modern horror classics such as The Ring and The Blair Witch Project, and sets the stage for the more realistic trends in today's fright flicks. It also touches on a range of themes - emerging technolog...

You gotta wonder if there’s a point to this. The ‘Scream’ franchise was all about the horror movie trends that were stagnating during the late 80s and 90s. The original film was a full stop to that current trend (although I guess the sequels would...

And so the ‘Scream’ franchise comes to a close. At least, that’s what they were telling us at the time. As far as marketing is concerned it does play well – with no more sequels waiting in the wings the only motivation for keeping the main charact...

The first ‘Scream’ movie manages to incorporate discussions about genre conventions and references to other horror films in a clever and witty fashion. ‘Scream 2’ attempts the same, but just comes across as smug. Whilst the characters in the origi...

This is the first movie in the series that I’ve bother watching since the first one. Having the lead actor jump ship on the sequel, then the second stringer bail out before the third was enough of a red flag for me to skip them both. The fourth lo...

When a masked killer starts stalking and murdering the teens of an American high-school, Sidney Prescott begins to see links between these killings and the murder of her mother a year earlier. The killer, however, seems intent on emulating popular...

I fracking hate romantic comedies. In no other genre do you find such insipid characters, pointless plots or unimaginative, formulaic film-making. Just to rub salt into the wound, it's the genre that attracts the least likable actors. Hugh Grant, ...

When it was announced that Christopher Nolan was going to follow up 'The Dark Knight' with a third film, one question that quickly sprung up was how they would match Heath Ledger's role as The Joker as Batman's foe. If there's one thing that prove...

Loosely based on real events, this grotesque period comedy doesn't entertain as a comedy, a horror or an insight into the famous crimes. Although well cast, the leads lack any of the chemistry that's made Simon Pegg comedies successful in the past...

Comic book movies have gone beyond being a trend and have settled into a sub-genre of their own. With that we have also seen films riffing on the established conventions of the comic book movie. ‘Kick-Ass’ took the angle of geeky kid living out hi...

In the late 1990′s, horror movies had gotten themselves into a rut. In terms of style there was very little to differentiate films from this era from the slashers of the 1980′s. Every director in the field was emulating either Wes Craven or John C...

Cameron Crowe made a splash as a hot new indie director in the 1980s and managed to ride that reputation through a series of mediocre released punctuated by the occasional heartfelt piece that keeps his value up. 'Almost Famous' stands as the tent...

Horrible bosses draws an easy parallel to 'The Hangover'. Comedians better known for television working together to mine comedy from a simple concept. Three guys hate their bosses and plot to murder them - a simple beginning that they generate ple...

Man, it shoulda been a sign in the first scene when the film-makers couldn't be bothered matching up events in the premonition to those that actually happen. It's clear throughout the film that no-one making this gives anything close to a shit. Wi...

They basically hit repeat on the formula from the second movie, but didn't manage to find a group of people who'd heard of acting before filming started. Plus deciding that a psychical threat in the form of a bland emo stereotype is pure stupid on...

I know some people will disagree, but this is the best in ther series to date. The first is a great horror movie (so long as you don't think about it too closely), but seems uncertain about what it wants to do - possibly due to it being a padded o...

The Final Destination movies have under gone a slight change since this original horror thriller. New audiences who've backtracked from the more recent entries may be surprised to find the level of gore is toned down in favour of suspense and stor...

I'm not as enamored with the Harry Potter movie franchise as some people. The books are simple reading bliss, but the movies have never managed to deliver on the source material (with the exception of 'Prisoner of Azkaban'). Instead there are rath...

I'd heard enough negative reviews of this movie to go into it with low expectations, and this may have contributed to how much I enjoyed it from the first scene. Fast and frenetic and with Snyder's unique film style, using editing and effects as a...

During the voice-over introduction to this movie, the chain-smoking narrator bold-facedly informs the viewer that "this is not a love story". He tells us this because he's a liar, and wants to mock us later when we find out that we've been had. Th...

The schmoes have my thanks, because I would've walked straight past this one in the video library. It looks like about fifty other films currently sitting on the shelf. But since you've all seen, reviewed, rated and moved on, I'll talk more about ...

With the massive range of songs available in The Beatles library, and their ingraining into pop-culture over the past 40 years, using them as the basis for a musical is not a giant leap of the imagination. Taking the psychedelic route for some...

The 'Lord of the Rings' is hardly the only big budget fantasy epic based on a bestselling book series, but it's the one that, in decades to come, will be fondly remembered and kept on a pedestal as one of the great achievements in cinema. So ye...

The Harry Potter book series is a magical experience, deserving of the monumental praise that has been heaped upon it. It's no surprise that Warner Brothers was quick to capatilise on this by bringing it to the big screen. It's a visually rich sto...

Since I have a pretty different reading on this one, compared to folks here, thought I'd dredge up my old review... Source Code is a movie that gives you food for thought about five minutes before closing the kitchen. The premise is without a ...

I didn't catch this one when it was first released - there were other good films out and whilst Gaiman is always worth the time it looked to much like a generic adventure film, one of dozens that were getting churned out post 'Lord of the Rings'. ...

At the outset this looked like a run of the mill psychological thriller, but it quickly turned around with a dark and twisted visual style and intriguing premise. Walter Sparrow (Carrey) is given an unusual book by his wife (Virginia Madsen) that ...

Humans living alongside aliens isn't the most original concept in cinema - tackled most recently in 'Distrinct 9' - but this feels like a fresh approach. Focusing the camera lens on a just two people not directly tied to global events gives us the...

Imagine a ball. Now imagine it being dropped. You now know everything you need to know about 'The Adjustment Bureau'. Taking on an interesting premise of an agency with unusual abilities who are tasked with 'adjusting' the world so that peoples...

An epic, star-studded, CGI fuelled remake of the 1980's classic adventure film that spares no effort in trying to keep the budget down. The characters are bland and spend the entire film trying to look as impassive as possible, the action scene...

There's a few people I'd like to address directly in this review. Firstly, Jonah Hill's character. I don't know what kind of roofie you slipped her, but there's no believable way you actually scored a girl like that legally. Look at her - she's...

I didn't know much anything about this film going into it, except that it had a pretty cool marketing campaign. After the first minute, what I knew was that I was watching yet another bloody mockumentary style. How fresh and different. It did ...

I didn't like this film upon it's first release, but everyone kept raving about it so I figured I must've missed something. So in the interest of trying to fit in, I gave it another crack. The first and final argument fans give in praise of thi...

The director's foot, a gun and clumsiness. That's my first impression. It's never a great idea to try and sell a movie based on a twist ending because it only takes one loudmouth to take away everyones interest in paying to see it. The massive abo...

During production both director Gondry and star Rogen were vocal about this not being a comedy film, but a serious turn as a superhero. Obviously this idea got kicked in the head along the way, but not early enough to make a funny movie out of thi...

Source Code is a movie that gives you food for thought about five minutes before closing the kitchen. The premise is without a doubt immensely interesting and gives plenty for movie buffs to chew on, but one leaves the cinema feeling like the mov...

A rare thing in modern Hollywood cinema - the prequel that adds to a franchise instead of using gimmicky fanbaiting to make a quick buck. X-Men: First Class steps away from the established story and characters from the four existing films to reset...