Cinema Listings
It's no secret that Hollywood is in love with sequels and reboots. Studio accountants have apparently decided that today's movies can be opened, not with stars, but with familiarity, and while most…
In Tony Stark’s world we’re at the conjencture, where the conundrum that is the final part of a trilogy rears its ugly head. Unsightly, as one has to make the decision to…
This seems to be the first of many studio tent-pole disaster movies heading our way this summer, with the likes of Will Smith's…
Sam Raimi has described his take on L. Frank Baum’s stories as a “love poem” to 1939’s masterful The Wizard of Oz. If it’s a poem, it’s a poem only in the way a McDonalds slogan or a Justin Bieber song can be called a poem. Creatively-starved, bland…
‘In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit’. And in that hole, the elderly Bilbo Baggins (Holm) is writing his memoirs for his nephew Frodo (Wood) on the eve of his eleventy-first birthday; the story of his adventures sixty years earlier, when a…
Ben Wheatley is carving out a name for himself as one of the most interesting British filmmakers of the decade, showing a flair for squashing genres together to weird but accessible…
Talaash (Search) marks Aamir’s return to the psychological thriller genre after many years. Something to relish? I’d say so, the man manages to tear up the screen every time he appears on it, with his legendary penchant for directing Directors,…
A swansong by any other auteur, just wouldn’t have the same resonance, the same feeling, the same romance... As Yash Chopra defines romance; literally has done through the ages, or a few generations to say the least. Jab Tak Hai Jaan (As long as I…
On the bus today I noticed that every other bus was sporting advertising for a comic book adaptation. Many despair at the domination of cinema by films for kids, but there is no reason, no reason at all, why comic books can’t tackle complex issues…
Yes, it's just five years since Sam Raimi concluded his trilogy of Spider-man movies, so you might expect this reboot to go down the lines of the Christopher Nolan Batman trilogy by changing the tone and angle on this first entry from director Marc…
Prometheus takes us to the land (hypothetically speaking) of Arthur C Clarke, Carl Sagan, Isaac Asimov, how could I forget Erich Von Daniken... and the director's very own early ventures into ‘Alien’ territory. Science fiction, the start and end for…
“Bigger, better, bolder, back.” The quote by the Sunday Mirror’s Mark Adams prominently emblazoned across the top of the poster for StreetDance 2 3D pretty much tells you all you need to know about the sequel to the surprise hit of 2010, the UK…
Star Trek Into Darkness
Iron Man 3
Oblivion
Oz: The Great and Powerful
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Sightseers
Talaash
Jab Tak Hai Jaan
The Dark Knight Rises
The Amazing Spider-man
Prometheus
Street Dance 2