Cinema Listings
The concept’s as high as an elephant’s eye; Emma (Hathaway) and Dexter (Sturgess) meet at university, and almost sleep together after graduation on July 15th 1988. Somehow, despite their abortive one…
The traditional Hollywood romantic comedy, as a genre, is pretty much dead. Think of the latest iterations: woeful films like Amy Adams' Leap Year or pretty much anything starring Jennifer Aniston,…
The build up to The Avengers movie in summer 2012 continues with the introduction of another of the line-up via this origins movie Captain America: The First Avenger. The Marvel superhero will eventually be joined on screen by the Hulk and Iron…
Seems hard to believe that we've had ten years of Harry Potter, harder still to believe that this is the boy wizard's final outing. So, where were we? Oh come on - by now either you already know, or you don't…
It was at the 2009 Edinburgh Film Festival where I had the worst cinema experience of my life. With three hours to kill and nothing on the festival programme, I chose to watch Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. The first Transformers movie was a…
Apocalypse Now, Francis Ford Coppola's masterpiece, is the story of Colonel Benjamin Willard (Sheen), a special operations officer sent into the jungle during the Vietnam War to find and assassinate the rogue Colonel Walter Kurtz (Brando). Willard,…
Oh, the irony... many condemned Disney's creative bankruptcy when they announced that they were releasing a film based on a game; Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl then surprised us all by being startlingly fresh and original,…
Fans of The Adam and Joe Show will know that Joe Cornish has always harboured aspirations of becoming a fully-fledged megaphone-wielder. The toy-packed parodies he created with Adam Buxton were, in their own way, mini masterpieces, and anyone who…
Takashi Miike has brought sensationally violent movies to the screen in the past, yet has always been driven by a desire to ensure the characters committing crimes are given a voice and reason for their actions. His ability to tell a story amid…
Until Moon, Duncan Jones was better known as Zowie Bowie. Then he was a promising debut director, but many a promising debut is followed by a dud, especially when Hollywood comes calling - Moon was an independent, low-budget, old fashioned sf film…
After the huge success of Gladiator, much was expected of the sword and sandals epic. Troy rapidly followed, and then the genre seemed to quietly disappear again, so it was a bit of a surprise when two Roman films were announced back to back – Neil…
This slick thriller offers a diverting Friday night’s entertainment, but nothing more; that’s a shame given the potential of its concept. The one thing it does very well, though, is showcase the considerable screen talents of leading man Bradley…
One Day
Beautiful Lies
Captain America: The First Avenger
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
Apocalypse Now
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
Attack the Block
13 Assassins
Source Code
The Eagle
Limitless