Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom: Idris Elba nails the accent, but this biopic...
For all its obvious good intentions, Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom feels like a straightforward biopic that, by setting out to cover more than half a century of Mandela's life, is surely tackling too...
View ArticleCharles Dickens' film The Invisible Woman: Lust, betrayal and a Dickens of a...
Ralph Fiennes is excellent in The Invisible Woman - delivering both the charm, charisma and showmanship we expect and the flaws and the weaknesses we do not
View ArticleHugh Grant The Rewrite: Washed-up, cynical and desperate...
In The Rewrite, Hugh Grant plays Keith Michaels, a washed-up Hollywood screenwriter so desperate for a job that he is reduced to teaching screenwriting at an upstate university in New York.
View ArticleThe Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part One: Playtime is over: This Katniss is a...
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part One is very good indeed and all the better for featuring no Hunger Games at all.
View ArticleNight At The Museum 3: A fight at the museum... and not in a good way as the...
If there ever was a moment for a third – and, as a former fan, I think there was – that moment has passed. The overall feeling is one of disappointment and flatness.
View ArticleFifty Shades Of Grey reviewed by Matthew Bond
Shortage of exotic shenanigans apart, artist-turned-director Sam Taylor-Johnson has delivered a decently acted and technically well-made adaptation of what remains a silly story.
View ArticleAvengers: Age Of Ultron: Comic book heroes lose a bit of their kapow in...
From the earliest moments of the film’s high-octane opening, which sees the full Avengers team mounting an all-out attack, the first doubts begin to set in.
View ArticleCannes: Selfies are banned but otherwise it's red-carpet business as usual
For anyone attending the annual madness, with its endless queues, traffic jams and parties you haven’t quite been invited to, there’s only one way to survive – take a deep breath and jump in.
View ArticleEmily Blunt to Benedict Cumberbatch: The British stars who have taken the...
The days of Hollywood only coming calling for a British actor when they wanted someone to play a baddie are long over. And these days it’s not just Daniel Craig playing James Bond.
View ArticleJurassic World: A cynical rehash of a winning formula? No, the fourth in the...
Jurassic World, against all the odds, is fantastic, more than capable of standing shoulder-to-shoulder with Spielberg’s original and undoubtedly the blockbuster picture of the summer.
View ArticleMr Holmes: Sir Ian McKellen makes a splendid make a splendid Sherlock......
Mr Holmes is a small film, an intimate film; a film in which much of what passes for action unfolds within the pleasant confines of an English country cottage on the south coast.
View ArticleMinions review: Sandra Bullock as the evil boss of the Despicable Me cuties?...
Yes, she throws everything she’s got at it – which script-wise, at least, isn’t quite enough – but she still sounds recognisably like Sandra Bullock rather than someone evilly interesting and new.
View ArticleThe Beach Boys gave us the perfect summer songs, but leader Brian Wilson's...
With an abusive father, a domineering psychiatrist and voices in his head, the new Beach Boys biopic Love & Mercy made me reappraise everything I thought I knew about Brian Wilson and the band
View ArticleMarvel's Ant-Man review sees Paul Rudd pack a mighty punch
Helped by a terrific cast and a thoughtfully constructed screenplay, Ant-Man has enough gravitas and drama to keep an open-minded adult audience entertained.
View ArticleInside Out is the unmissable family film of the year, but make sure you have...
Inside Out is an unashamedly complex and ambitious picture about the working of the human mind. But it’s also a Pixar film, so it’s full of colour and lovable characters.
View ArticleMission: Impossible - Rogue Nation: Mission Accomplished! Awesome stunts,...
From the adrenaline rush of the opening sequence, which sees Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) hanging on to the door of a cargo plane as it takes off, it’s clear the bar has been raised again.
View ArticleFantastic Four: A Fantastic new foursome even more awesome than the previous...
A mere decade after the likes of Jessica Alba, Ioan Gruffudd and Chris Evans originally brought one of Marvel’s earliest superhero franchises to live-action life, it’s start-all-over-again time.
View ArticleThe Man From U.N.C.L.E.: His Sherlock Holmes movies were stylish box office...
With Sherlock Holmes , virtually every creative decision Ritchie made turned out to be the right one. Here, by wretched contrast he barely gets anything right at all.
View ArticleVacation: As funny as Chevy Chase... and that’s NOT a recommendation. This...
A mere 32 years after National Lampoon’s Vacation and 18 years after Vegas Vacation finally brought the original four-film franchise to a close, the Griswolds are back.
View Article45 Years: Charlotte Rampling and Tom Courtenay are made for each other on...
The new film 45 Years is thoroughly lovely, albeit in a misty, melancholic way that seems to herald the onset of autumn in more ways than one. It’s wonderfully well acted too.
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