Tagged Film

Calling Marc Webb’s perfunctory remixing of Spider-Man’s origins "Amazing" was an audacious claim back in 2012. Now, less than two years later, comes the web-slinger’s greatest battle: to remain...

If Adichie's book was half of a yellow sun then this adaptation merely cowers under its imposing shadow. Bandele's theatre background shows in the basic and unimaginative direction and his screenplay...

Darren Aronofsky's liberal retelling of the classic Genesis myth is notably epic in both its newly modernised relevance, and its biblically requisite sense of scale. However, much of the tale's innate...

The Double sees Jesse Eisenberg thumping his two favourite masks - milksop and  scumbag - together as if they were a pair of cymbals. This doppelgänger nightmare is something we should want to digest...

Starred Up serves its porridge with bits of broken glass. It grins as it spits teeth, just as likely to erupt into another volcanic episode of violence as it is to cough up a pearl of prison wisdom. Jack...

The Zero Theorem is unmistakably a Terry Gilliam film, for better or worse. He has created a deliciously chaotic dystopia, saturated with colour and adverts, but his ramshackle directing threatens to disengage...

Beautifully hypnotic and hauntingly dispassionate, Jonathan Glazer's multi-faceted exploration of cultural subjectivity and social realism flawlessly straddles issues of both observational cinema and the...

Love trivia? Love six degrees of Kevin Bacon? Then you’ve come to the right place. Our new feature Ten Degrees of Trivia will combine the two to take you on a journey through the world of loosely connected...

For Your Consideration: The Love Guru Cast: Mike Myers, Jessica Alba, Justin Timberlake, Verne Troyer, Romany Malco Director: Marco Schnabel Writer: Mike Myers, Graham Gordy Estimated...

300 was brawny entertainment back in 2006, pumped full of radioactive testosterone. But this feeble sort-of sequel exhibits a warrior well past its prime. Weak and saggy, the once-chiseled abs have melted into...

In recent years, Liam Neeson has punched one half of a Middle-Eastern crime family, identity thieves, a pack of wolves, and the other half of said Middle-Eastern crime family. Now he has to punch an endangered...

Welcome to the jewel in the crown of awards season. Tonight the world holds its breath for the 34th Annual Razzies, where all that glitters is most definitely not gold. Formed in 1980 by publicist John J. B....

A song scabs over the penultimate scene of Need For Speed (or Braking Bad) before it hits you that it’s actually a truly dreadful cover of Dylan’s 'All Along The Watchtower'. This mangled arrangement...

For Your Consideration: The Lone Ranger Cast: Johnny Depp, Armie Hammer, William Fichtner, Tom Wilkinson, Helena Bonham-Carter Director: Gore Verbinski Writer: Justin Haythe, Ted Elliott, Terry...

In a career spanning five decades, Hayao Miyazaki has transformed the genre of animation.  His ability to incorporate thematic depth and visual excellence into his features has inspired generations of...