Film Reviews

THE RAID (18): On General Release Friday 18th May If you haven’t been living under a rock with your fingers in your ears for several months, you must have heard of The Raid.  But now that it’s finally arrived, does it live up to the hype?   Well, happily the answer is a resounding, bone-crunching “yes” as it’s an action movie with few... [Read more of this review]

ALL IN GOOD TIME (12A): On General Release Friday 11th May East Is East writer Ayub Khan Din, turns out another rather predictable offering that centres on generational conflict in an Asian community. An adaptation of his play Rafta Rafta (itself a new version of the 1963 Bill Naughton play), All In Good Time is a contrived comedy that suffers further... [Read more of this review]

JEFF, WHO LIVES AT HOME (15): On General Release Friday May 11th Sometimes there are movies that you should by all rights hate, but despite yourself you end up liking.  The latest offering from Jay and Mark Duplass (Cyrus) has a minimally scripted plot and a main character that believes in cosmic harmony and that “everything happens for a reason”... [Read more of this review]

HOW I SPENT MY SUMMER VACATION: On General Release Friday 11th May If Mel Gibson wants us to forget his odious public image, he’ll have much better success with films like How I Spent My Summer Vacation than depressive grovelling nonsense like The Beaver.  HISMSV joins Gibson in the middle of a car chase dressed as a clown and with his accomplice... [Read more of this review]

DARK SHADOWS (12A): On General Release Friday 11th May You don’t like modern Tim Burton movies, you just think you do.  You probably have warm fuzzy nostalgia for his earlier work (Edward Scissorhands, Batman, Beetlejuice) but every time he announces a new movie, you waltz into the cinema with naïve happy optimism only for it to be crushed beneath... [Read more of this review]

Trailers

We absolutely can’t wait to see Ted. It’s the story of Johnny (Mark Wahlberg) a regular guy who falls in love with a girl (Mila Kunis). The thing is, he’s constantly dogged by a rather special friend – a hard-drinking, pot-smoking teddy bear that came to life as a result of a childhood wish and just won’t leave. It’s... [Read more of this review]

Can you say “KABOOOOOM!!!”?  Introduced by Sly himself (who seems to have some trouble getting the name of his movie right), it’s big  it’s loud, it’s got massive explosions, it’s got more testosterone than you can waggle a bicep at,  it’s got Jason Statham delivering some great one-liners (“I now pronounce... [Read more of this review]

With Avengers Assemble being the superhero film to beat this year, everyone else has got a lot of work to do. Well the main trailer for The Amazing Spider-Man has just swung in and with a few weeks to go before it hits the big screen what can we learn? It’s been clear from the start that Webb’s version was always going to have a darker tone... [Read more of this review]

The Hangover was a slice of stag night carnage which has been imitated but rarely equalled. It looks like new Brit comedyA Few Best Men,  from the pen of Dean Craig (Death At A Funeral) and megaphone of Stephan Elliot (The Adventures Of Priscilla, Queen Of The Desert), is going to have a stab though. It sees Xavier Samuel (The Twilight Saga’s... [Read more of this review]