2 Guns
Another day, another comic book adaptation. But thankfully it’s not superheroes this time – it’s an action/comedy starring Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlberg as two criminals each hiding their true […]
Category Archives: New Releases
Call Girl
No, Call Girl is not the sequel to last year’s big bag of hate For a Good Time, Call…, nor is it the long-awaited big-screen adaptation of ITV2’s Secret Diary of a Call Girl. It’s actually […]
Kick-Ass 2
In a summer full of identical superhero movies, it’s a relief to see 2010’s Kick-Ass followed up in its uniquely uncompromising style. Hit-Girl and Kick-Ass are back, but she’s starting high school and […]
Blancanieves
What’s this? Another Snow White movie? But we already had Snow White and the Hunstman and Mirror Mirror last year! Make something new already! Not so fast… In what has […]
Only God Forgives
As you may realise from the title, Only God Forgives is a look at the darker side of human nature. It starts out with a Bangkok drug dealer raping and […]
Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa
Aha! The long-awaited Alan Partridge movie has landed and it was well worth the wait. Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa sees Steve Coogan, Armando Iannucci and Peter Baynham reunite to bring us a […]
The Conjuring and The Marketing
The latest horror film to follow the grammatically questionable trend of having a title that follows “The” with a present participle is The Conjuring, directed by James Wan of Saw and Insidious fame. Or […]
Now You See Me
Time for a new feature in which I review a film frustratingly close to the end of its cinematic run. In this case it doesn’t matter, however, as Now You See […]
The Wolverine
Everyone’s favourite crime fighting mutant is back for another solo outing, after 2009’s X-Men Origins: Wolverine. An isolated Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) travels to visit the deathbed of Japan’s most successful […]
The World’s End and Trilogies
I often wonder what my favourite movie trilogy is, and worry that they all seem to fall at the last hurdle. It can’t be the Godfather trilogy because of The Godfather […]
