I don’t read comics. I might have flicked through The Adventures of Tintin once, but that’s about the extent of it. My ignorance, however, has never been much of a problem when it comes to reviewing comic-adapted movies, if only because a majority of them feature superheroes iconic enough that I haven’t needed to read a single issue to know who’s who or what’s what.

Then comes along Green Lantern, a [...]

Big Mamma’s Boy is the story of an attractive young man desperately trying to divide his time fairly between two women, and failing miserably. Familiar turf for a romantic comedy. Except in this case, one of those women is a gorgeous, successful blonde exuding intelligence and charm, while the other, armed with a fierce array of kitchen utensils, is his mother.

Not to be confused with the American Mama’s Boy or [...]

Directed by the ever-so-masterful Stanley Kubrick in 1962, Lolita is a surprisingly lacklustre affair with a script that’s neither as daring nor erotic as it so desperately wants to be.

The film follows Humbert Humbert (James Mason), a middle-aged British college professor who movies to America in order to acquire a position as a French literature teacher. Upon crossing the pond, Humbert stumbles upon a small town where he rents a room from [...]

In Transformers: Dark of the Moon, the latest visual effects show-reel from action director Michael Bay, a race of evil alien robots threatens to annihilate all of humanity. Not a hard task when there isn’t a spec in sight to begin with.

The words “soulless, empty spectacle” doesn’t even begin to describe the third Transformers movie, but it’s a good place to start. Bots go “bam!”, buildings go “boom!” and boobs [...]

Make no mistake, The Hangover was truly one of the funniest films of the last decade. While the crude comedies coming out of Judd Apatow’s camp were being diluted with sentiment, Todd Phillips’ 2009 smash hit embraced absurdism head-on as it careered from one outrageously hilarious situation to another, never once slowing down to get gushy. And fair enough, too; no one goes to Sin City [...]

Naomi Kawase, a Cannes Film Festival darling, won the Camera d’Or in 1997 with her debut feature Moe no suzaku and has since been a regular presence in Official Competition, winning the Grand Prix in 2007 for Mogari no Mori. With that in mind, you would presume there’s strong hope for her latest entry, Hanezu (Hanezu no tsuki). But despite her best intentions, Kawase’s latest falls short of creating a [...]

Popcorn? Check. 3-D glasses? Check. A theatre full of whining, hyperactive kids? Check. Low expectations? Check. Alright, Uncle Walt – show me what you got!

Enter Milo. Like most pre-teens, he has a hard life. He’s forced to take out the garbage, eat broccoli, and do all sorts of unpleasant, demeaning things on a daily basis by an evil suburban dictator: his mother. One night, after a particularly troublesome skirmish, he [...]

There I was, licking my lips at the possibility that Catherine Hardwicke’s Red Riding Hood was going to be deliriously awful, the kind that sparks internet memes and general merriment whilst intoxicated. You know, like Wicker Man.

But no, Red Riding Hood merely turned out to be moderately awful, the kind that sparks nothing more than a laboured sigh as [...]