Author Bertie Archer

The love story of Amy (Schumer) and Aaron (Hader) follows the genre's traditional arc while putting the emphasis heavily on the com in rom-com. Playing the lead on screen and paper, Schumer is a tour de...

If this is how Ritchie and Cavill Bond, we’re lucky they never did. Aside from a microdot of genuine excitement and energy, U.N.C.L.E. is a masterclass in mundane, insubstantial espionage. U.N.C.L.E....

Ethan Hunt: super-spy, quasi-leader of top-secret government agency, and foundation of $2 billion film franchise. The humble 1960s American television show on which the series is based has been left far...

Ethan Hunt has done it again, but better. With a complex plot and credible enemy, Rogue Nation puts Hunt through his paces. Cruise is more than up to the challenge, proving that he is in total control of...

It is hard to argue that Jack Reacher should be given a second chance. This is not because the film doesn’t deserve greater recognition and a wider audience, which it most definitely does; instead, the...

https://vimeo.com/122375452 However you reacted to Marley & Me, prepare to be hit by a crashing wave of emotion. Denali is a tribute, a love letter, a farewell between two best friends; they have...

It's ironic that a film partly about the excesses of Hollywood has so much excess baggage - doubly so when this includes a contrived subplot concerning the film-within-a-film needing some of its weaker...

Accidental Love stars Jake Gyllenhaal, Jessica Biel, James Marsden and Tracy Morgan, yet it is directed by an unknown. This isn’t unheard of; even in 2014 Hollywood was rocked by a first time director with a...

How a CG movie can be released eight years after the video game it’s based on and have significantly worse graphics, not to mention story and characterisation, is unfathomable. Yet Heavenly Sword is just...

This oral history documents the inexplicable rise, and inevitable fall of Golan and Globus; the pioneers of schlockbusters, whose fierce passion for filmmaking (whatever the cost) led to exploitation on and...

Saturated with seventies style, Marseilles’ elegant backdrop provides a proving ground for police magistrate Pierre Michel (Dujardin), and playground for his nemesis, drug-lord Tany Zampa (Lellouche). The...

There are two ways to describe The Way. The first will be familiar to anyone who has discussed Peter Jackson’s Middle Earth films with a non-believer – “they're all just taking a really long walk, I...

Anna Kendrick and her singing sisters are back. This time competing against a superior German group in a series of increasingly impressive arrangements and routines. Routine is the operative word and "second...

Jon Stewart. You know, that guy from Big Daddy? The voice of Zeebad in the Magic Roundabout movie, Doogal? He played himself in several films too, like The Adjustment Bureau. Still nothing? You’d be...

A Royal Night Out takes two happy-go-plucky princesses from the Ritz to the rubble. V.E. Day in London is thoroughly recreated with tremendous production and costume design, lending to an all-encompassing...