Pierce Brosnan stars in this unusual, heartfelt rom-com. Former James Bond actor and ageing British sex symbol Pierce Brosnan is not the first person you’d expect to find in a Danish rom-com set in Italy. And yet Love Is All You Need does indeed feature everyone’s favourite suave, grey-templed god,… Read More →

Rebellion is a taught military drama which examines the pressures of command and how detached political decisions can lead to disaster. Mathieu Kassovitz directs and stars in this cinematic retelling of a true, slightly embarrassing kerfuffle between French commandos and a group of militants in New Caledonia. Set in 1988,… Read More →

This excellent crime drama examines masculinity and fatherhood with power and subtlety. Ryan Gosling continues his streak of playing broodingly violent protagonists who are economical with language in The Place Beyond the Pines, sharing the screen with a subdued Bradley Cooper and the sallow-faced intensity of Chronicle’s Dane DeHaan. Eva… Read More →

Don’t. Just don’t. Scary Movie 5 is a breathlessly unfunny concoction of pop culture references and racist stereotypes, spliced together with a barely coherent plot that parodies three year old films like Inception and Black Swan. There’s one good, slightly surreal joke involving a remote control car. It’s hard to… Read More →

This post-apocalyptic sci-fi movie simmers without ever reaching boiling point. Tom Cruise has played a man called Jack three times in his career, and twice within the last six months. It’s an all-American name that suits his slightly insane persona and in Oblivion it’s combined with the surname Harper, which… Read More →

If Ke$ha was a film… Spring Breakers is a lucid dream; a disjointed and boastful tale of violence and excess painted in day-glo neon colours and played out with a pounding dubstep soundtrack that will ultimately date it as heavily as the theme tune to Saved by the Bell. In… Read More →

This lazily written teen sci-fi film commits one terminal sin: it’s almost supernaturally boring. The Host, adapted from the novel of the same name by Twilight author Stephenie Meyer, is a barely coherent and cheaply shambolic piece of science fiction cinema. Like Meyer’s first franchise it revolves around a love… Read More →

This action sequel is obviously stupid. But is it bad? G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra was hugely expensive, knowingly silly and surprisingly successful. Its sequel meets two of those criteria, but without the same sense of playfulness it becomes a bit of a slog. Almost two hours of kinetic… Read More →

Danny Boyle messes with our minds in this mesmeric psychological thriller. Trance is a film about art theft, infatuation and the dark art of suggestion, mingling together in a package that bears all the stylistic hallmarks of director Danny Boyle’s previous works. While it may not ultimately be as satisfying,… Read More →

Insert bean pun here. Jack the Giant Slayer is an entertaining, if meaningless, fairytale adaptation that embellishes the source material without completely choking the life out of it. Jack (Nicolas Hoult) is a lowly farmhand who, dressed in a hilariously anachronistic leather hoody, dreams of greatness and revels in the… Read More →