Movies

Having enjoyed all of the Marvel movies to date (especially Iron Man onwards), I was looking forward to this film, but not quite as much as a lot of others seemed to be. I've been far more excited about Prometheus, The Dark Knight Rises and Brave, but this has proven to be everything I hoped it could be and more.

To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the real-life tragedy, I waited until this weekend to see one of my favourite movies back on the big screen, and it doesn't get much bigger than IMAX. And if any film deserves to be seen on the biggest of big screens, it's Titanic.

This film sees its co-writer and producer, Buffy creator Joss Whedon, finally reunited with the horror genre, alongside several of his TV alumni. What could possibly go wrong? Truthfully, I can't decide if this is absolute genius or absolute garbage. Upon reflection, I'd have to say it's an equal balance of both.

As a plot device, people killing people for others' entertainment has been done, done and done. Battle Royale, The Running Man, Tron, Gamer... even Gladiator. I could go on. So what makes The Hunger Games stand out above these? Truthfully... I don't know, and I am not even sure that it does. But it's definitely one of the better examples.

Robert Pattinson stars in new drama, Bel Ami, which follows a young man’s journey to wealth. This is a very different role to his normal parts in which he normally plays a good guy, so did he do the role of Georges justice?

Which came first, the chicken or the egg?

100 years ago this month, Tarzan creator Edgar Rice Burroughs published his first novel about the hero to be known as John Carter of Mars. Amazingly, this is the first time that this character has been brought to life on the big screen.

The result? Rather than being the original, fantastical adventure the likes of which cinema audiences have never seen, we're instead given something of a rehash of the films that took it as its inspiration.

Awards Season is now well and truly over, so if you've been waiting for one of the year's guilty pleasures, then wait no longer, it has arrived.

A film that encourages you to laugh at it, as much as with it, This Is War takes a ludicrous premise, and does increasingly ludicrous things with it. What more could you want?

After the temporary blip that was the rather marvellous Unstoppable two years ago, Denzel Washington is back on tediously disappointing form with this run-of-the-mill actioner.

This has potentially become the Best Picture Oscar nominee with the worst reviews EVER. Does it deserve them? In a word, no. It's not even the worst film of the nominees.

Yes, it has its flaws, but given that this will be one of the few positive reviews of this film on the web, I'd like to explain why.

I know there's already been a review of this film on this site, but I thought I'd add my tuppence worth as well, as I think The Woman in Black is a film worth seeing.