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 [...]

The recent string of English-language remakes continues with Jonathan Lynn’s (My Cousin Vinny, The Whole Nine Yards) British comedy Wild Target. Taking aim at the 1993 French film Cible Emouvante, a bullseye, this is not.

When Britain’s most esteemed assassin, Victor Maynard (Bill Nighy), fails to kill his (wild) target Rose (Emily Blunt), he reluctantly agrees to protect her from the men who want her dead. Caught [...]

The after-life and film have always been dangerous bedfellows.  There have been successes (The Sixth Sense, The Others) but also disappointments (The Lovely Bones, After.Life). Sadly, Zac Efron’s latest star vehicle Charlie St. Cloud, joins the list of the damned.

Charlie St. Cloud (Zac Efron) and his young admiring brother Sam (Charlie Tahan) are left to their own devices as single mother Claire (Kim Basinger, the ‘Where’s [...]