Donnie Yen is Jet Li 15 years ago. A feat of martial arts engineering yet to be discovered by the mainstream masses. So when someone tells you to go check out the new film by Peter Ho-Sun Chan (the mastermind behind Bodyguards and Assassins and The Warlords) featuring Donnie Yen, you do so with a certain skip in your step. You don’t expect to come out the other side on a stumble, feeling just a little disappointed while still pleasantly surprised. Confused? Let me explain…
Thursday Till Sunday looks pretty and….and nothing. It just looks pretty. The last word in indulgent filmmaking, there’s no denying that Thursday Till Sunday is a beautiful film – but looks aren’t everything and viewers looking for something with just a tad more substance may be left feeling disappointed…
Safe Haven is out, signalling the end of the cinematic world as we know it. But, thankfully, four brave new interns have joined the Best For Film battle against the dark regime of Nicholas Sparks. Is there a single film out there in this post-Sparkian civilisation worth seeing?
The new Iron Man 3 trailer has landed and it’s brilliant. So brilliant, in fact, that we’ve decided to dedicate an entire blog to it. Get ready to have your opinions served up to you, Tony Stark style!
Safe Haven has been making a killing at the box office, for reasons we can’t possibly fathom. Badly written, badly acted and generally just bad, this is the number one film to stay away from this week…
Deeply unsatisfying, 12 In A Box fails to deliver on all accounts. Too dark to be lighthearted, too slapstick to be a proper black comedy, it’s no wonder the schizophrenic plot leaves the majority of viewers baffled, bewildered and, above all else, bored out of their minds.
Say bye-bye to Twilight and a big fat HELLO to Rapturepalooza…
Jennifer Lawrence is looking seriously smokin’ in this new Katniss Everdeen portrait…
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