Sabotage
It’s happened. Arnold Schwarzenegger has played a substantial role in a film that isn’t just an Arnold Schwarzenegger star vehicle. Sabotage is a violent action crime thriller about a team of hard […]
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Frank
To declare an interest, I once met Jon Ronson, co-writer of Frank, and he showed me a picture of his dog. The film is loosely based on his experience playing […]
Blue Ruin
Last week saw the release of two films about neighbours from hell. Blue Ruin follows the escalating violence between neighbouring families. Meanwhile, Bad Neighbours sees the lives of an unlucky couple completely devastated when Zac […]
Dogtown and Z-Boys
Dogtown and Z-Boys is a 2001 documentary about the revolutionary Zephyr skateboarding team of California in the mid-1970s, narrated by a stoned Sean Penn. I should say for legal reasons […]
The Raid 2
Having just about recovered from the tower block siege of The Raid, Rama (Iko Uwais) goes undercover in a crime family. He spends the rest of the film quietly trying to […]
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Welcome back to our increasingly regular feature of reviewing a film too late to catch it in the cinema, but too early for the DVD or Netflix – the infinitesimally […]
Transcendence
In the not-too-distant future, a genius scientist called Will (Johnny Depp) is at the cutting edge of artificial intelligence. He runs a lab with his parter Evelyn (Rebecca Hall) and […]
The Amazing Spider-Man 2
Andrew Garfield steps into the famous spandex suit for a second time. Two years on and he’s still dating Gwen (Emma Stone), haunted by her dead father (not literally) whose […]
Calvary
Calvary is the new drama from John Michael McDonagh, brother of Martin McDonagh of In Bruges fame, making them the most successful Irish siblings since Jedward. Brendan Gleeson plays a Catholic priest, struggling with the […]
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
After the events of The Avengers, Steve Rogers AKA Captain America (Chris Evans) is still struggling to adjust to life in the 21st Century. Luckily a flirtatious Black Widow (Scarlett Johannson) […]
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