The Call (15)Running time 94 minutes Rating:***Unlike many Hollywood films stuffed full of big characters, big noises and big special effects, everything…
Rush (15)Running time 123 minutes Rating: *****As many a doctor will tell you, the most powerful, the most addictive and the most dangerous drug in the…
Riddick (15)Running time119 minutes Rating:***As in his two previous cinema outings as Riddick, Vin Diesel plays a man that you definitely would not want…
Film Review: About Time (12a)Running time 123 minutes Rating:***Going through the list of truly great British television comedy – Mr Bean, Spitting Image,…
Elysium (15)Running time 109 minutes Rating:***With the population of the Earth set to go above 10 billion souls in a frighteningly short time, sci-fi…
Film review: 2 Guns (15)Running time 109 minutes Rating:**If you happen to have a CIA agent as a neighbour or friend (you never know in West Berkshire),…
The Lone Ranger (12a)Running time 149 Rating:***A cinematically memorable piece of movie-making that makes up for its shortcomings. The Lone Ranger reviewed…
The Heat (15)Running time 117 minutes ... but seems longer Rating: *Just to indicate that there is very little truly original in the world of film, try…
Film Review: The Wolverine (12a)Running time 126 minutes Rating:****For those who like their superhero movies full-fat, true to the original comic book…
Film Review: Monsters University (U)Running time 104 minutes Rating:***Just in time for the summer holidays, Disney’s Pixar Animation comes up with a…
Now You See Me (12a)Running time 115 minutes Rating:****Magic tricks and cinema are natural bedfellows. Both exist as a result of visual trickery – magic…
Despicable Me 2 (U)Running time 98 minutes Rating:*** The villain-turned-to-good – Gru – returns in Despicable Me 2, to give us further evidence that…
World War Z (15)Running time 116 minutesRating: ***World War Z, the latest end-of-the-world saga, stars Brad Pitt as a zombie hunter, an intrepid World…
Film review: Man of Steel (12a)Running time 143 minutes Rating:***AS with many superheroes – even Time Lords – Superman has gone through a number of portrayals,…
After Earth (12a)Running time 100 minutes Rating:***We all know that Will Smith can’t help his face, but it’s difficult to watch him play a serious role…
Film review: The Purge (15)Running time 85 minutesRating:**MANY ‘end-of-the-world’ films have a developing narrative of increasing chaos as everything…
Film Review: Epic (PG)Running time 102 minutes Rating:*** Half the fun of going to see a supposedly children’s ‘cartoon’ film such as Epic is trying to…
The Great Gatsby (12a)Running time 142 minutes Rating:****SOME film critics have been getting all het up in recent weeks over director Baz Luhrmann’s…
Film review: Iron Man 3 (PG)Running time 130 minutes Rating:** Now that we are entering the season of the action blockbuster, cinema audiences will have…
Olympus Has Fallen (15)Running time 120 minutes Rating:**ANYONE brave enough to make an action movie about North Korean terrorists storming the White…
