Last year’s Up in the Air was about a guy who fired people for a living. We watched scene after uncomfortable scene of former employees reacting with shock, disbelief and indignation when they are bluntly told that their years of service and sacrifice have reached a premature end. Since the main character, played by charismatic star George Clooney, held all the power, there was [...]

In a world where retaliation is king many cruel things abound – from those believing they have all the power and from those trying to teach them otherwise. Conflicting opinions of what is right and wrong often create cause for argument, and when put into context under extreme circumstances you create a much stronger story. That’s what In A Better World gives us – a somewhat subtle confrontation of mindsets [...]

Compared to emotionally intelligent 3D animated features such as Toy Story 3 and How to Train Your Dragon, live-action kids movies tend to degenerate into a study of how many blows a man’s gonads can take before he is rendered infertile.

So imagine my surprise when Gulliver’s Travels, a modern rehash of Jonathan Swift’s [...]

Bouncing between a dramatic comedy, salacious romance, and Anne Hathaway’s 36C’s, Love and Other Drugs is almost poignant and occasionally charming.

Would-be doctor, Jamie Randall (Jake Gyllenhaal) rejects family expectations to live a shallow philandering lifestyle as a drug-pushing pharmaceutical salesman. Whilst enjoying his sordid sexy trysts he meets his sexual equal; the spirited Maggie Murdock (Anne Hathaway). Fiercely independent, Maggie prefers non-committal booty-calls, and rejects romantic prospects. Overcompensating for her [...]

For too long, horror movies has been typified by senseless levels of gore, irritating jump scares and bimbo characters with more botox than brains. But change is in the air. Thanks to the success of films such as The Blair Witch Project, [REC] and Paranormal Activity, the handy-cam style of filmmaking has effectively helped revive the genre into something worth screaming about.

For [...]

The restless spirit of the Wild West flows through the veins of Red Hill, a grisly revenge thriller that rides into town with uneven footing. Is it trying to be serious or silly? Funny or frightening? If it  could just make up its mind, this superbly shot and performed film might have overcome its various genre contrivances and emerged as a competent feature debut from Australian Patrick Hughes. [...]

The bad news is that the 80s remake (or “re-imagining”) craze is no longer confined only to the big screen. The good news, however, is that the remake of the 1883 TV miniseries V is actually pretty darn cool!

Retaining the basic premise from the original cult series, the pilot episode gets straight down to business. Within minutes the story has been set up, giant alien mother-ships [...]

Atom Egoyan’s remake of the 2003 french film Nathalie is an erotically charged arthouse thriller that will make you squirm in your seat and curse yourself for bringing a date.

The morning after David (Liam Neeson: The A-Team) misses his flight home for his surprise birthday party, his wife Catherine (Julianne Moore: A Single Man) discovers a text message on his phone from another woman. [...]