Director Antoine Fuqua exploded on to the Hollywood scene a decade back with the critically acclaimed Training Day, which is often considered one of the quintessential cop/crime dramas but ever since has struggled to follow up that hit, releasing a string of mediocre films that never broke out at the box office (see King Arthur, Shooter).

While his latest offering doesn’t necessarily reverse that trend it does at [...]

Harry Potter is about a nerdy 10 year-old boy who is informed by a wise and powerful wizard that he is the ‘chosen one’ fated to stop an evil force from taking over the world. In contrast, The Sorcerer’s Apprentice is about a nerdy 10 year-old boy who is informed by a wise and powerful sorcerer that he is the ‘Prime Merlinian’ fated to stop an evil force [...]

In the cinema of Hollywood, finding a film that is not about love presents a real challenge. We’ve had so-called “true love” (The Notebook) and the twisted “I’m so in love with you, I want to eat you” love (Twilight). We’ve had love based on “intense experiences” (Speed), the “oops, we’ve made a baby” love (Knocked Up). Most prolifically, we’ve had [...]

Not since 2008s Oscar winner ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ has pleasure and pain come together so beautifully.

Piranha 3D can be summarised, and reviewed, in just two simple words:

3D boobies.

Guys, be sure to sit extra close to the front. You can thank me later. Girls, I guess it’s just you and me now.

When Michael Winterbottom’s The Killer Inside Me premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January, one of the film’s stars, Jessica Alba (Fantastic Four), reportedly walked out of the cinema half way through the screening. But who can blame her? This grim look into the psyche of a serial killer is so brutally violent and sadist in parts, its borderline torture porn. As far as crime thrillers go, it’s also quite a bore.