Review: TEXAS CHAINSAW

Forcefully casting the Michael Bay-produced remake and its prequel to the side and lopping off the disappointing sequels, this new instalmen...

Review: JACK REACHER

A loose cannon. A firebrand. A maverick, if you will. That’s how the character of Jack Reacher might have been described in the past. That s...

Review: SEVEN PSYCHOPATHS

Where to start with Seven Psychopaths ? It’s so scrappy and sprawling that it is hard to quite get a handle on. Employing meta techniques it...

Review: PITCH PERFECT

Anna Kendrick, in her first leading role, is Beca; a retiring alternative type. We know this because she has Daddy issues and she's into...

Review: THE MASTER

Following up There Will Be Blood was always going to prove troublesome for Paul Thomas Anderson in light of his varied career of works t...

Review: TAKEN 2

Unlike many action film sequels, Taken 2’s strongest card is that it isn’t a case of, “How can the same shit happen to the same guy twice?” ...

Review: THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER

It comes down to more than just this but you know when one small thing in a film causes it to instantly lose you? That. Set in a Pittsburgh ...

Review: ABOUT ELLY...

Simmering tensions and questions of honour enshroud a group of Iranian friends and their young families as they visit a villa by the sea. Th...

Review: PARANORMAN

The presence of Tim Burton and Henry Selick loom large over this film. While not in an official capacity, the world of horror inflected stop...

Review: HOPE SPRINGS

What happens when an unstoppable force (Meryl Streep’s unbridled optimism) meets an immovable object (Tommy Lee Jones’ craggy scowl)? Well, ...

Review: DREDD

It looked like 2000 AD’s toughest lawman would never see the big screen again. A string of flop films based on ‘mature content’ comics and a...

Review: THE SWEENEY

  The latest in a long line of television to movie adaptations is a quintessentially British affair that desperately wants to compete with i...

Review: COCKNEYS VS ZOMBIES

Dawn of the Brown Bread . This is very much an ideas film. The title is at once evocative and playful and, strangely enough, quite intelli...

Review: [●REC]3: GÉNESIS

Taking place simultaneously with the events of [REC] and [REC]2 , the third instalment has arguably the neatest conceit of the three by com...

Today's Viewing & Review: Venus Beauty Institute

Today's Viewing & Review: Peacock

Today's Viewing & Review: Gulliver's Travels

Today's Viewing & Reviews: The Way Back + Barbarella + Close Encounters Of The Third Kind

Today's Viewing & Reviews: Fanboys + True Grit + Rooster Cogburn

Today's Viewing & Review: The Conversation

My 450th film this year: