Transformers: Age of Extinction is so-called because it involves the dinosaurs and, as the film begins, we see them being wiped out, circa 65 million BC, but this time it’s because an asteroid has hit …
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Transformers: Age of Extinction is so-called because it involves the dinosaurs and, as the film begins, we see them being wiped out, circa 65 million BC, but this time it’s because an asteroid has hit …
Continue readingThe Zero Theorem is one of those off-the-wall films I wanted to see when it came out at the cinema, but my local Odeon criminally ignored it, and while I could’ve found somewhere in Manchester …
Continue readingThe Grand Budapest Hotel makes its way on to Blu-ray and DVD, with a bold instruction at the start of the film: “PLEASE SET YOUR MONITOR TO 16X9”. You’ll see why in due course. The …
Continue readingNeed for Speed aims to do for movie franchises what the bafflingly popular Fast and Furious series has also done, but in this case it’s also based on the popular videogame franchise, and how many …
Continue readingThe Lego Movie begins with unlikely hero Emmet Brickowoski (Chris Pratt) being inadvertently caught up in a plot where Lord Business (Will Ferrell), an evil guy masquerading as the President, has stolen Kragle, an item …
Continue readingUnder The Skin is, let’s get this out the way, the film where Scarlett Johansson gets her kit off. Without anyone in the cast having a name for their character, she plays an alien who …
Continue readingBraquo Season 3 is something that I didn’t know had yet been made when the press release dropped into my inbox, but upon seeing it I was all “Mon dieu! It’s time for more Eddy …
Continue reading24 reaches the endgame with Episode 12 and “The following takes place between 10.00pm and… 11.00am” Huh?! Success! Audrey’s friend Jiao isn’t dead! …until Cheng gets wind of that and finishes her off anyway. Somehow, …
Continue readingThunderbolt and Lightfoot sounds morelike the sort of drink you’d buy in a bar in town on a Friday night, these days, but 40 years ago, it was a film about two robbers, played respectively …
Continue readingWolfenstein: The New Order positions you in the action as B.J. Blazkowicz, an American war hero who wakes in 1960, after a 14-year coma, realising that the Nazis have taken over the world, since World …
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