From the outside it seems as if this latest British crime thriller ticks all the right boxes. Mark Strong as a bad guy? Tick. Ridley Scott producing? Tick. Cop versus criminal, car chases, bullets flying everywhere and anywhere? Tick. Trouble is, one can’t escape the feeling that someone’s thrust some big-name actors and an exhausted plotline into an A Level project, making Welcome to the Punch mediocre at its best and laborious at its worst.
Guillermo del Toro has big plans for a dark Avengers-style crossover story…
Arbitrage is the feature directorial debut of writer Nicholas Jareck about successful hedge-fund manager Robert Miller and the consequences he must face when honesty is no longer an option. Richard Gere is on top form is a film about the morality of finance in post-crash America.
Could this be another cult-horror killer?
Eerie horror film Mama is out this week and, to celebrate, we’ve decided to reveal the top 10 creepiest children ever to grace the silver screen. Lindsay Lohan, we’re coming atcha…
Turns out it’s possible to love her even more.
Guided by the probing mind of Keanu Reeves, Side By Side is a thoughtful documentary exploring the near universal adoption of digital filmmaking techniques by an industry once defined by the physicality of photochemical film. While most of the directors interviewed wax lyrical about new cinematic frontiers and the endless possibilities presented by the 21st century’s digital playground, some dissenters suggest such freedoms mightn’t be such a good thing.
To The Wonder is out now, and among the cast of Terence Malick’s newest impenetrable drama is a certain Canadian with a great big forehead and a great big heart. But will Rachel McAdams’ role be an inspired return to form for 2004’s Hollywood It Girl or a sad little footnote to a fading career? We don’t know, obviously, so we’re just having an argument.
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