Prometheus is one of this year’s big pre-summer blockbusters and upon entering the cinema I was ready to be wowed. The film has some solid foundations – it has been labelled as an ‘almost’ prequel to Hollywood classic horror Alien (1979), retaining original director Ridley Scott and a $120-130 million budget. Following in the footsteps of the ancient…
This is a Cuban zombie movie. It’s the first of its kind, apparently, and judging on the quality of this piece of work I won’t be devastated if it were the last. Of course, filmmakers more talented than Alejandro Brugués may come along and make Cuban zombie movies that are masterpieces, and if they do I…
As a self-confessed Marvel/Comic/Superhero fangirl, I was always going to enter the screening of Avengers Assemble with unrealistically high expectations, but after an altercation at TGI Friday’s which caused me to miss the first 20 seconds, I was immediately submerged into a world where the film’s stupid name (Avengers Assemble? Really?) really didn’t matter. Cue…
Battleship is considered a sinker with a plot full of holes.
The Raid has the potential to disappear under the radar: it features an all-Indonesian cast and is directed by little-known Welshman Gareth Evans, and has received the bare minimum of exposure. Don’t let this put you off though: missing this movie would be a travesty. The plot is pure cliché. A S.W.A.T team, featuring the…
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Director Oliver Hermanus’s dreamlike, intoxicating new film Beauty is a character study of a man who is both a monster and a victim. Set in vibrant, colourful modern-day South Africa, the film tells the story of François (Deon Lotz), a carpenter and family man with a wife and daughter. He has a secret, however, that…
Safe is one of those lumbering, stupid action movies that should have been shot on sight by a big straight-to-DVD gun as it crashed its way to multiplexes. Occasionally, these unfortunate beasts, ones that would be more at home on the ‘Bargain Chart’ shelves of Tesco, make their way into cinemas, and the experience is…
Following the recent announcement of an upcoming sequel to 2004’s comedy smash hit Anchorman, a new teaser trailer featuring Ron Burgundy and the rest of the Channel 4 Evening News Team has been released. It is the first new material from the franchise in years and it does not disappoint, leaving us even more excited…
Dark Shadows is the type of film for which that overused and clunkingly clichéd phrase ‘darkly comic’ was first invented. It aspires to be very ‘darkly comic’. In one scene our protagonist (a vampire named Barnabus Collins, played by Johnny Depp) rips apart a group of innocent builders. In another we are laughing at his…
Consider the scope and worth of Sir. Ridley Scott‘s seminal science-fiction classics Alien and Blade Runner and you might be forgiven for wondering why the renowned director has only given up two films to the genre. But ask yourself this: what more could he really have done?! The man practically reshaped big screen sci-fi TWICE with a pair of masterstrokes…
Mirror Mirror: The Untold Adventures of Snow White leaves a bitter taste in your mouth. It is so sickly sweet that it seems to forget to focus on developing a decent plot or a narrative that functions properly. Although the cinematography and general look to the film is quite enchanting at times, it ultimately cannot…
Aki Kaurismäki’s latest film is a sweet and gentle French comedy drama about a shoeshiner named Marcel Marx (André Wilms) who befriends a child immigrant who is being hunted by the authorities. The plot is meandering and often feels aimless, but this is part of its charm, and Kaurismäki leads us along at a leisurely…
Adding 3D to Titanic is like pointlessly renovating a big, popular, famous building. It wasn’t intended for 3D when it was shot. It never needed 3D. It was a phenomenal success without 3D. But to mark the centenary of the ship’s maiden voyage and tragic sinking, Twentieth Century Fox and director James Cameron have released…