Sitting through Jonathan Liebesman’s Battle: Los Angeles is akin to watching your friend hog the controller to Halo for two numbing hours — he has all the fun, while you’re left twiddling your thumbs.

Aliens have invaded Los Angeles, and since Will Smith is on vacation, it’s left up to SSgt. Michael Nantz (Aaron Eckhart; Rabbit Hole) – who, surprise surprise, is just days from retirement — [...]

I’m beginning to suspect that the Catholic Church has Hollywood producers under some sort of contractual obligation, the particulars stating that they must release one exorcist movie a year in which a doubtful priest reasserts his faith and confirms the existence of demons. Otherwise, I’m at a loss to explain why movies such as Mikael Håfström’s The Rite exist. Here is a film so ponderously pious, I half expected to [...]

Remember back in 2009 when Anne Hathaway, hot on the heels of her Oscar nomination for Rachel Getting Married, starred in the dreadful rom-com Bride Wars? Or what about Sandra Bullock, who was crowned Best Actress at the Academy Awards for her role in The Blind Side not a [...]

At the ripe old age of 80, it’s completely understandable why seminal American director Clint Eastwood (Changeling, Invictus) is pondering about the afterlife. I just hope, for his and our sake, that it’s a hell of a lot more interesting than what he’s depicted Hereafter, a sluggish and surprisingly shallow drama about three melancholic souls and their supernatural brushes with the dead.

Todd Phillips’ Due Date is more like an actual hangover than last year’s blockbuster comedy The Hangover: it’s unpleasant, unfunny and the sooner it comes to an end, the better.

Phillips, a hit-and-miss comedy director responsible for the likes of The Hangover (hit) and the remake of Starsky & Hutch (miss), was clearly hoping lightning would strike twice by reteaming with Zach Galifianakis, [...]