Tagged Elizabeth Banks

A pop feminist, blingy advert for girl power could have been a fun, if fluffy, night at the cinema, but unfortunately the new Charlie’s Angels is let down by a script that neither serves the predictable plot...

There’s a whole subgenre of superhero comics that came about from asking ‘what if?’ As in, what if Batman was a vampire? What if the Avengers had been around in Elizabethan England? Now David...

... Is everything still awesome? The team behind The LEGO Movie 2 is well ahead of us on that joke, and many others too. This film is even more self-aware than its predecessor, referencing everything from...

The conceit of The Happytime Murders might have made a half decent Saturday Night Live sketch but a good, even passable, feature film it does not. Most frustrating is the sheer laziness of the script. Todd...

The last seven days has obviously seen allegations mount against actors, directors and producers alike. Kevin Spacey, James Toback, Brett Ratner, Dustin Hoffman, Jeremy Piven and many others have had their...

It may be a sad fact to many but the '90s are officially nostalgic now, and if ever there was a much-loved show from that decade crying out for a cinematic reboot, it's Power Rangers. Gone are the tight lycra...

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...

Love and Mercy begins with promise but this is subsequently dismantled. The positives include wonderful orchestration and initially smooth linkage between the separate chronologies; they extend to the able...

Jane Lynch has been making people laugh since her career began, but she really became a household name in 2009 when she began playing Sue Sylvester in Fox television series Glee. Despite perhaps being most...

The Hunger Games hasn’t given birth to twins. Instead, it has stretched out the limbs of its concluding chapter to the point of cracking dislocation. The bite of the adaptation’s first instalments has...

You know who they are. Or rather: you know what they look like, you may know their names, but you almost certainly know what films they’ve been in. But would you be surprised to know how much those films...

To celebrate the release of THE LEGO® MOVIE, AVAILABLE ON DIGITAL HD FROM JULY 7TH AND 3D, BLU-RAY AND DVD ON JULY 21ST, we've got a competition for five lucky people to win a copy of THE LEGO®...

Sara Colangelo's feature debut, Little Accidents, dolefully addresses the personal ramifications of widespread public trauma. Taking place in the small-town setting of Park City, Colangelo...

The LEGO Movie is a chocolate box of joy. Some jokes may not taste as good as others, but you are never too far away from something you’re going to adore. Lord and Miller have done it again, this time...

Welcome to a new feature 'The Citizen Kane of Awful', in which our authors will view less than good movies and provide a minute-by-minute commentary. One Room With A View aims to be open-minded; if...