Film review: The Monuments Men (12a)Running time 110 minutesRating:***War throws up the most unlikely heroes, sometimes just at the moment you need them…
Film review: Mr Peabody & Sherman (PG)Running time 92 minutesRating:***As well as being a very pleasant change not to have to watch films with bad…
Film review: I, Frankenstein (12a)Running time 92 minutesRating:**It’s a rare thing to find a film that in some respects is a pot of ordure, but would…
Film Review: Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (12a)Running time 105 minutes #Rating:**ANYONE with a long plane journey to endure will have come across the books…
Review: 12 Years a Slave (15) Running time 134 minutesRating: *****What with the Japanese behaving abominably towards British prisoners of war in The…
The Railway Man (P15) Running time 116 minutes Rating:*** Today, there are only a handful of frail old men alive, who when the subject of railways comes…
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (PG)Running time 125 minutes Rating:***If anyone was going to play the downtrodden, daydreaming wimp that is Walter Mitty,…
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (12a) Running time 161 minutes Rating:***** GOING to the latest instalment of the Tolkien fantasy is always…
After a year of ‘so-so’ films (with a couple of notable exceptions such as the sci-fi film Gravity and award-winner Argo), we all need something to look…
Free Birds (PG)Running time 91 minutes Rating:***Not being a great lover of turkey (either alive or dead on a plate), any animated film about potential…
Saving Mr Banks (PG)Running time 125 minutes Rating:****Anyone who can make creepy old Walt Disney look and sound good fully deserves an actor of the…
Parkland (15)Running time 93 minutes Rating:*** The assassination of President John F Kennedy, in 1963, was one of those momentous events that everyone…
The Counselor(12a)Running time 117 minutes Rating:*As soon as you see the bleak, bleached desert landscape of the Texas and Mexico borderlands, you get…
Film Review: Gravity(12a)Running time 91 minutes Rating:*****Rather than waste time with unnecessary introductions and lead-ins, let’s say from the outset…
Film Review: Philomena (12a)Running time 98 minutes Rating: ****The idea of joining Steve Coogan, known to so many of us as the character Alan Partridge,…
Film reviewEnder’s Game(12a)Running time 114 minutes Rating: **Portraying your enemy as a faceless, inhuman being, radically different from yourself and…
Captain Phillips (12A)Running time 134 minutes Rating:****Modern day pirates – the kind that operate off the Horn of Africa – do not generally come with…
The Fifth Estate (15)Running time 128 minutes Rating:*** The ever-shifting world of the Internet, with its modems, codes, passwords and other geekery,…
Sunshine on Leith (PG) Running time 100 minutes Rating:***Jukebox musical based around 13 Proclaimers’ songs, is a simple story of romance and heartache…
Blue Jasmine (12a)Running time 98 minutes Rating:*****You would think that, with his 80th birthday fast approaching, Woody Allen might consider slowing…