The US smash hit arrives in the UK. Bridesmaids director Paul Feig reunites with its breakout star Melissa McCarthy for another female driven comedy in this mismatched and often hilarious buddy movie. Sandra Bullock stars as tightly wound (but brilliant)…

Opening with a flashback to 1945, Logan (aka The Wolverine) saves the life of a young officer named Yashida during the atomic bombing at Nagasaki. Skip forward to the present day and many years after the events of X-Men: The…

It’s a kind of magic. A quartet of illusionists are brought together by a mysterious backer and take to Las Vegas to perform their daring feats to a sold out crowd. Known as The Four Horsemen (although one’s a woman)…

Plagued by rewrites and reshoots, Marc Foster’s World War Z is finally unleashed in cinemas. A film on this scale was never going to satisfy the hardcore fans of the zombie genre or indeed the readers of the book it’s…

Scheduled panic on the streets of America. On the surface this reborn dystopian America of 2022 has survived the recession and now boasts the lowest crime rate in decades. Was this minor miracle achieved through the hard work and due…

Modern vampire movies seem to fall into two categories, there’s the straight-up horror with a thread bare story and buckets of blood, in the other corner there’s the tween friendly shenanigans of the Twilight saga. The latter has somewhat defanged…

The Wolf Pack go out on a whimper rather than a howl. The Hangover was an important film in the revival of raunchy mainstream comedies, once popular in the 70s and 80s this genre evolved into gross out hits like…

Vin Diesel and his crew are back for more high speed antics. Even the most robust movie franchise will suffer from the inevitable law of diminishing box office returns. Buckling that trend in 2011 Fast Five shifted gears from street…

Set Phasers to fun! Sequels are a tricky thing to get right, the standard convention is to take the characters into darker territory while expanding on the established universe they’ve created. The trailers and even the title of JJ Abrams’s…

Shane Black takes over from Jon Favreau and gives the franchise a much needed power boost. Beginning with a flashback to New Year’s eve 1999 Tony meets Aldrich Killian (Guy Pearce) a super fan who is setting up his new…