It’s difficult to explain why Godzilla has turned into such a pop icon. He was conceived by Toho Film in 1954 as ‘Gojira’ a colossal beast awoken by man’s ignorant..

Arnold Schwarzenegger’s long-awaited return to the silver screen has not turned out quite as uproarious as some would have expected.

Con artist Chester MacFarland (Viggo Mortensen), his young wife Colette (Kirsten Dunst) and a stranger called Rydal (Oscar Issac) are forced to go on the run in a foreign country..

Escape from New York III: Detroit

Jolted awake by a collision with a shipping container, an unnamed man (Robert Redford) wades through the Virginia Jean to find a hole in the hull and sea water flooding in over his malfunctioning electrical equipment. He dislodges the container using a sea anchor and does his best to repair the damage, pumping the water…

While his uncle (Karl Urban) and sister (Angourie Rice) head off to dig up a fossilised Gorgosaurus, Ricky (Charlie Rowe) — whose childhood fascination with dinosaurs has since given way to video games and music — remains with the car. When he is approached by a talking Alexornis called Alex (John Leguizamo), however, he is…

Having received a letter in the post inviting him to Nebraska to collect $1 million in prize money, Woody Grant (Bruce Dern) is forced to set off from Billings, Montana on foot when his skeptical wife Kate (June Squibb) refuses to drive him. Youngest son David (Will Forte) receives a call at work summoning him…

What Catching Fire does well is ramp up the sense of mortality staring you in the face. It is essentially a blood bath; kids killing kids, ADULTS killing kids. If you thought the arena in The Hunger Games was a nightmare, this arena will haunt you: fog that fatally poisons you if you touch it…

Thor is back, and the God of Thunder’s got a new gang. Lady Sif and the Warriors Three are still about, but (courtesy of the increasingly confused Marvel Cinematic Universe) Thor’s now attended by some new celestial hangers-on. Say hello to the Muse of Stilted Dialogue, the Sibyl of Utterly Predictable Action Sequences and the Demon of Irrelevant Villains, coming together to make a film so grotesquely misshapen that it’ll actually make you look forward to all the plagiarised bits. Sort of.