Silver Linings Playbook (15)Running time 122 minutes Rating:****While veteran director John Ford was probably spot-on when he said that you shouldn’t…
Twighlight: Breaking Dawn Part 2 (12a)Running time 116 minutes Rating:** As with Harry Potter, Star Wars and Lord of the Rings, the Twilight Saga of vampires,…
Argo (15)Running time 120 minutes Rating:****Just occasionally, a true story can give cinema audiences more excitement, tension and satisfaction than…
Film review: Skyfall (12a)Running time 143 minutes Rating:****It’s no wonder James Bond (Daniel Craig) is looking a little jaded these days when you consider…
IN mainstream animated films for the youngsters, good old Uncle Walt Disney set the gold standard years ago with classics such as Bambi, The Jungle…
Film review: Looper (15)Rating:*** You only need to watch a few minutes of Looper to realise that, along with most people in Great Britain – or so we…
Film Review: Hope Springs (12A)Running time 100 minutes Rating:**Fresh from portraying a grim, acid-tongued harridan in The Devil Wears Prada, Meryl Streep…
Film review: Anna Karenina (12A) Rating:***In the very early days of cinema, most film producers thought the easiest way of getting a successful stage…
Lawless (18) Review rating ***Politicians have silly ideas sometimes and possibly the silliest was in 1920 when the US government decided that all alcoholic…
The Watch (12A) film review Rating:*In Britain, Neighbourhood Watch risks being stereotyped as nosy old busybodies, making notes behind net curtains of…
Film review: Prometheus Rating: ***Some 30 years after directing the first Alien film, Ridley Scott returns to the franchise to give it a shiny new paintjob.…
THE makers of Men in Black should be congratulated for revealing to the world what many people have long suspected – that we are surrounded by folk so…
Dark ShadowsReview rating ***Director Tim Burton, supported by his familiar ensemble, draws deep into his Gothic bank account to show those upstarts in…
Safe sees Jason Statham on familiar ground – a violent bloodfestReview rating *If, one of these days, you see Jason Statham looking cheerful in a film,…
Film review Salmon Fishing in the YemenReview rating ***GIVEN that there are around two million people in this country alone whose idea of pleasure is…
Forget the dialogue. Forget the acting. The boardgame-inspired Battleship is 137 minutes of testosterone-fuelled enjoyment says reviewer Mike Beharrell.…
