The X-Men series has had its fair share of ups and downs over the years. The first two entries helped revive the comic book film industry (with X-2 being considered arguably the best of the genre pre-The Dark Knight), but the third film and the first spin-off received mixed reactions.
Richard Herring is one of the best British comedians. Fact. He is a comedian of the people, and I hate myself a bit for writing that. He performs for the love of it, always donating proceeds to Scope and putting the rest of the money into more projects.
This film has prompted huge discussion amongst Christians and non-Christians, so, first things first, this is where I stand on the whole religion debate, so you can spot potential bias.
Godzilla has it all on paper. Provided you take ‘it all’ to mean ‘an extremely promising concoction of interesting choices that might just work’.
Think back to spring 2008. The comic book industry’s ventures into film were showing strong signs of recovery after the apparent death knell that was 1997’s Batman & Robin.
Over the last decade, ever since Spirited Away rocked the box office and became the highest grossing Japanese film in history, the release of a new Studio Ghibli film has become something of ‘An Event’, bringing with it a whirlwind of excitement and speculation.
The director of End of Watch (an interesting take on police films that didn’t quite succeed) combining with one of two classic 80s action heroes suffering a string of mediocre...
The opening lines of Frank are a mixture of odd noises and half-formed (and utterly atrocious) lyrics, providing an amusing and wry look at the plight of the artist in search of inspiration...
Locke is an intriguing premise. Set entirely in the cabin of a BMW (bar a few brief seconds of Locke climbing into his car at the very beginning), and with only one character (the eponymous Ivan Locke) ever visible in the form of a bearded, be-cardiganed Tom Hardy.
The biography of British director Joanna Hogg is a strange one indeed: mentored by legendary avant-gardiste Derek Jarman during the 1970s, she won a scholarship to the National Film and Television School, where she took a chance on unknown actor Tilda Swinton for her graduate piece. And then?
Ilo Ilo, Anthony Chen’s touching, naturalistic portrayal of family life in 1990s Singapore, has finally touched down in the UK, nearly a whole year after winning critical acclaim at the Cannes Film Festival.
It’s comedy season again, and things are kicking off in the most family-unfriendly way possible (in both a literal ‘this is a crude comedy’ and ‘this is a comedy where unfriendly acts are committed against a family’ sense)