Fifty Shades Of Grey, based on the best-selling novel of the same name, arrives on our screens amongst a storm of hype, expectation and a healthy sprinkling of controversy. There will be those out there that have made up their minds about the movie before ever setting foot in their local cinema; that it will be trashy, tasteless and just…

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Clint Eastwood is something of a conundrum when it comes to directing movies. On form, he delivers some of the most intelligent and honest movies in America. On a bad day though, he is overly reliant on flag waving sentiment, cliche and ends up giving us badly realised caricatures of real life people. American Sniper, the biopic of Chris Kyle,…

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If you, like most people, consider action in a movie to mean explosions, gun fights, kung fu and car chases, then I urge you to allow your horizons to be broadened by going to see Whiplash. The movie is packed with bursts of action of the most unconventional kind; the pounding beat of drums, the blaring of saxophones and the…

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Attempting to blur the lines between science fiction and science fact, Interstellar, the latest  from Christopher Nolan, is everything we’ve come to expect from one of cinema’s most adventurous storytellers. Like his previous foray into sci-fi, it’s polished, intelligent, and visually astounding, and while criticism has been levelled at him before for the coldness of his movies, Interstellar packs an…

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A hugely anticipated movie adaptation from a universally loved director, based on a smash-hit book; on paper Gone Girl ticks all the boxes. As dark and stylish as anything director David Fincher has done before, he has crafted a suburban thriller with enough murky twists and turns to keep the audience baited throughout the nearly two and half hour running…

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Everyone goes to the movies for different reasons; some go to laugh, some go to be scared, some go to cry and some go to experience a good story. You probably have a fair idea of what you’re going to see before you queue for your ticket and popcorn, but for most people heading to this weeks big blockbuster release,…

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We all know the law of diminishing sequels; its been talked about by moviegoers and in movies for years. So when you have a sequel to a reboot of a franchise approaching 50 old, the expectations can’t be that high, can they? Well, like most rules, there’s the odd exception that comes along to defy expectation and re-energize the Hollywood…

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Movie concepts, or projects, don’t come much bigger and grander than this. For a period of 12 years, starting in 2002, director Richard Linklater intermittently filmed a young boy named Mason (Ellar Coltrane), his sister (Linklater’s own daughter) and his parents (Ethan Hawke and Patricia Arquette, reprising their roles throughout) every year, following Mason on his journey through life from shy…

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Criticise Michael Bay all you want, but it’s an indisputable fact at this stage that he knows how to make a successful blockbuster. While universally destroyed by reviewers, the latest installment of the Transformers franchise, despite what you may read in most places, isn’t all bad, and it’s director has at least tried to out-do himself when it comes to…

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Four years ago, How to Train Your Dragon came out of nowhere and gave us a gorgeous adventure filled with humour, action, loss and love. How refreshing then that How To Train Your Dragon 2 contains the best elements of its predecessor and improves on them in almost every way. Written and directed by Dean DeBlois, the story centres on…

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