300 director Zack Snyder’s take on the Superman origin story is an action-packed, visually stunning spectacle, complete with picture perfect cast and a brilliantly rousing score by Hans Zimmer. But, in sacrificing character for the sake of action, Man of Steel fails to plumb the depths. Though you may marvel at the display, there’s little here to truly resonate.
Ben Wheatley (Sightseers) continues on his winning streak with period psychological horror A Field in England.
The Wolfpack go on one last wild ride in the final part in the Hangover trilogy; a solid buddy-comedy with plenty of action sandwiched in the middle.
J. J. Abrams’ reboot of the Star Trek franchise was remarkable for not only providing a deliriously entertaining summer sci-fi blockbuster, but also for managing to do it (mostly) without upsetting one of the most notoriously volatile fan-groups in the world.
2008’s Iron Man was the first film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe to be released, and it’s the film that set the template and paved the way for all those that followed.
From the director of the truly remarkable 1995 film La Haine comes a real life war movie, of sorts, which pits politics and terrorism side by side where soldiers and citizens are expendable as the policies they spew.
The hugely successful stage show of Jeff Wayne’s musical version of The War of the Worlds has been brought to the big screen, but how does this new cast, with all new computer generated effects, play out in the cinema?
Sam Raimi’s The Evil Dead is a seminal piece of cinema. It’s also not especially good.
That might be a controversial opinion, but when people rave about the Evil Dead series, they often refer more to the two sequels, which were far more overtly fun and funny than the original, which was a genre defining piece, and hugely influential, but in hindsight doesn’t play quite as well itself.
Dragon is one of those rare breeds; a great martial arts epic with a cracking storyline.
While the title may sound like a Jazzy Jeff album, In the House is one of those sophisticated French films that makes you wonder why more people don’t gargle their Rs and hang up Klee watercolours in their corridors.