Reviews

Andrew Detmer is a kid on the edge of society. He isn't popular at high school, unlike his cousin Matt, at home his ailing mother can't help protect him from his abusive father, and so his ...

Steve McQueen's second film, Shame, had tremendous buzz around it even before it's world premiere in Venice back in September. Expectations were high after McQueen's brilliant first fea...

After nearly two years since it was announced, David Fincher's adaptation of the best selling novel The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo is finally here and it doesn't disappoint. But that's...

Guy Ritchie is back with a sequel to his 2009 take on the famous detective created by Arthur Conan Doyle. Whereas the first movie, with Robert Downey Jr. in the title role, was a different, very &#...

Shrek's feline philanderer finally gets his own starring vehicle with the eponymous Puss In Boots which sees the titular hero meet a swathe of fellow fairytale characters and a rather Batgirl-e...

After a six year hiatus, director Bennett Miller returns to the movies after his 2005 film, Best Picture nominee Capote with Moneyball, the true story of Oakland A's general manager B...

Arthur Christmas: is it a festive sequel to Russell Brand's comedy remake? Or has Arthur the Aardvark finally made it to the big screen? Or is it in fact a seasonal Aardman animation about a dy...

Gattaca director Andrew Niccol returns to the sci-fi genre with In Time, a fast-paced thriller set in a near-future where, to avoid overpopulation, people only age until 25, after which time t...

As a child growing up in a small town with nothing much for kids to do I used to spend a lot of time reading and my two literary mainstays were the books of Asterisk and Tintin. In fact I was such ...

An unknown, highly communicable and very deadly disease spreads across the globe. Millions are dying. Scientists are baffled. Governments cannot control its spread nor provide adequate protection f...

A film about robots fighting each other that's both vaguely tolerable and not in 3D? Not on your nelly! At least that's what I would have said, posed with that question prior to seeing ...

When young Sally comes to stay with her father and his girlfriend in the mansion they're renovating, she encounters evil creatures with a taste for human teeth... From the mind ...

Since making its debut back in May at the Cannes Film Festival, Drive has been getting universal praise. Believe the hype. Oscar season is officially upon us and so far, Drive is in an entirely dif...

Two years after Ruben Fleischer's 2009's hit, Zombieland, his directorial follow-up, 30 Minutes or Less (also starring Jesse Eisenberg) tells the story of a slacker pizza delivery boy kidna...

Friends with Benefits is afflicted by the same problem suffered by films such as Armageddon and Deep Impact, Megamind and Despicable Me, Dante's Peak and Volcano or A Bug's Life and Antz (a...