Love Is All You Need: Pierce Brosnan's new romcom is strikingly similar to...
Even with his 60th birthday fast approaching, Pierce Brosnan has a presence that should help Love Is All You Need's prospects at the box office
View ArticleIron Man 3 review: Funny and has a great twist - but it all needs a little...
Iron Man 3 is funny - very funny at times, at least once you've become re-attuned to Robert Downey Jr's mumbled, rapid-fire delivery - and it never forgets its comic-book origins
View ArticleDead Man Down: Too much fire... not enough Dragon
Colin Farrell may be an unlikely casting choice as a New Yorker who turns out to be of Hungarian extraction, but he's certainly more convincing than Noomi Rapace, whose performance is mannered and...
View ArticleStar Trek Into Darkness: A cracking crew, brilliant baddie, storming script...
Chris Pine goes a long way to laying the lingering ghost of William Shatner - the original Kirk, of course - for good here, with a charismatic and energetic performance of real presence
View ArticleThe Great Gatsby: Yes, it's spectacular, but Baz Luhrmann's reworking of the...
Leonardo DiCaprio (right) has been on cracking form recently. So it's a little disappointing to report that he's merely good as Gatsby rather than brilliant
View ArticleThe Hangover Part III: It's closing time for the Hangover series - and the...
Comedy-wise in The Hangover Part III, there are only a few moments that come close to producing the many laugh-out-loud moments of the original.
View ArticleByzantium: She runs around in lingerie, wreaking cruel vengeance on her...
Gemma Arterton gives it her best shot but is hampered somewhat by the fact that she simply looks too 'nice' to properly convince, either as a world-weary hooker or as a murderous, 200-year-old vampire
View ArticleBehind The Candelabra: Michael Douglas camps it up as cabaret star Liberace...
Damon, best known for playing the uber-macho action hero Jason Bourne, is 42 in real life. When his character Thorson first met Liberace in 1977, he was barely 18.
View ArticleDaniel Radcliffe in Kill Your Darlings to Robert Redford in All Is Lost: The...
Kill Your Darlings not only tells the story of how the Beat Generation poets got together at Columbia University in 1943, but also how they were all implicated in a murder
View ArticleMandela: 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.
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