2014

Sabotage contains Schwarzenegger’s best performance since he said “I’m back” to acting.Unfortunately it also contains a painfully obvious ‘mystery’ and an unwarranted amount of brutal violence. I’m a sucker for words like “breaching” and “clear”; […]

I’m usually excited to get home and write a review upon leaving the cinema. But this one took me a week to ever get started. Sin City 2 has a few things going for it, […]

A well natured but naughty rom-com, She’s Out of My League stars Hiccup from How to Train Your Dragon. Yeah, it sounds odd to me too. Yet he bafflingly attracts the attention of ‘the half-naked […]

Out of the Furnace touches on a variety of interesting ideas; Conditions in the economically declining rust belt, post-traumatic stress and the bond between brothers. Unfortunately it only skims the surface. This leaves it to […]

In this reboot of the dormant series Chris Pine is well cast as an ex-marine with brains and some brawn. Problem is, it adds nothing to what Bond and Bourne are already giving us. Its […]

Stuck at the end of a train forever circling the globe after an environmental catastrophe, the lower class revolts. It’s a mental idea and possibly the only film in the ‘post-apocalyptic train’ niche, but arresting […]

An impressive cast tells this true story of a small team on a mission to recover works of art near the end of WW2. The story is both humorous and dramatic, detailing the team’s great […]

Scarlett Johansson has been very busy indeed, this being the fourth I’ve seen starring her this year. She’s fearless in her choices; which leads to some amazing films (Her), but also leads to films with […]