Terence Davies’ The Deep Blue Sea is a miserable slog of a movie. Adapted from the 1952 award winning play by Terence Rattigan, the film is set in depressive post-war England, and recounts — with all the formality of a “Dear John” letter — the romantic turbulence that culminates in the attempted suicide of Hester Collyer (Rachel Weisz; The Whistleblower). Of a time and place where emotional outbursts are [...]

A group of American youths are besieged by invisible attackers in the Russian capital of Moscow in The Darkest Hour, an alien invasion movie so woefully written, directed and acted that it makes Cowboys & Aliens, Battle: Los Angeles and Skyline all look positively award worthy by comparison. That this movie exists makes me sad. That I’m writing about it makes me sadder. But is does. And [...]

In both its nihilistic themes and art-house attributes that border on the satirical, Lars von Trier’s Melancholia serves as a very clear successor to his controversial previous effort, 2009’s Antichrist. Both films begin with a shamelessly pretentious but inescapably beautiful opening prologue that drips with mesmerising slow-motion photography and heart-rending classical overtures. From there, however, von Trier leads us down a very long and arduous path of cheerless monotony, one [...]

Something Borrowed is one of the most contrived, unfunny, and unrealistic endeavours to be produced in quite some time. Here’s a romantic comedy that doesn’t offer a lick of genuine sentiment, nor a good laugh. But after years of rom-com banality, that should hardly come as a surprise.

The film follows humble New York City lawyer Rachel (Ginnifer Goodwin), who on her 30^th birthday, finds herself in bed with her long-time [...]

For once, the trailer for a new comedy — in this case David Gordon Green’s medieval mockery Your Highness – didn’t spoil the best bits. Unfortunately, that’s because there aren’t any.

In a series of firsts, Your Highness isn’t just the first stoner comedy to exist without Seth Rogen, it might also be the first stoner comedy to exist without any comedy. With its unparalleled number of phallic references (I’m reluctant [...]

Spoiler alert: Focker sounds a lot like F*cker.

Good. Now that you know the sole punch-line of Little Fockers, you’re without a single justiifiable reason to go see this abomination of celluloid. Here is a film that doesn’t just take the once-tolerable Meet The Parents franchise down a step, it slips and misses the entire flight of stairs, breaks its neck upon impact and proceeds to bleed out all over the [...]