The Hobbit 2: The Desolation of Smaug // Review
It’s time to catch up with Bilbo Baggins and his gang of burly, yet crockery-conscious dwarves
Hunger Games: Catching Fire // Review
Cue more fight or flight teenage quandaries and Jennifer Lawrence bringing sexy back to water proof anoraks.
Gravity // Film Review
Make some space in your calendar and go and see Gravity.
Insidious 2 // Review
Watch this film if you are a fan of the genre because it will be fun, but I don’t think you’ll be sleeping with the lights on.
Kick-Ass 2 // Review
See it if you like schoolgirls with swords, fast-paced fight scenes set to cool music or funny one-liners.
The World's End // Review
They return in The World’s End, the third instalment of Edgar Wright’s Three Flavours/Blood and Ice Cream trilogy.
Man of Steel // Film Preview
He could cut Batman in half with his eyeballs, put Iron Man in an Iron Lung and hammer Wolverine into the ground like a nail
IMAX: Star Trek Into Darkness // Film Review
It’s the return of Kirk’s merry band of interracial, international, interstellar space cowboys...
Iron Man 3 // Review
He’s a millionaire playboy with the kind of reputation that would make Charlie Sheen’s biography read like Cider with Rosie
Jack the Giant Slayer 3D // Review
Before you can say “Fe Fi F-Oh Fu…” there’s more giants than you can shake an IMAX camera at, and they’re not happy.
A Good Day to Die Hard // Review
When our ageing, bald hero does get neck-deep in the exact kind of shit that he’s increasingly too old for, don’t worry, McClane Jnr is there to drag him out...
Django Unchained // Review
"Does Tarantino go too far? Hell yeah, and that’s why it works!" - Smiley reviews Tarantino's latest
The Hobbit // Review
Peter was in, Guillermo was out, and before you could say, “are you Tolkien the piss?” it was shot, edited and split it into THREE films!
Skyfall // Review
007, the suave secret agent with Britain in his heart, blood like ice and the collective libido of plentyoffish.com.
Dredd 3D // Review
Nolan took the darkest side of the knight for his Batman trilogy and now we get Dredd - the lawman that puts the mental in judgemental.
Ted
Meet the beer swilling, pot smoking, stripper loving, foul mouthed, un-cuddly toy that is Ted.
The Dark Knight Rises
I like Bale’s Batman. He’s dark, vicious and the kind of superhero that would punch his mum and sister...
Men in Black: 3
"You won’t be disappointed, and if you are, simply look into the light here…" - Smiley reviews the latest MIB instalment...
The Avengers Assemble
"Will it be a Hulking smash hit or a Thor point for Marvel? See it to find out."
Chronicle
A group of three teenage friends develop superpowers, and what starts off as an amazing discovery soon starts to corrupt them
The Muppets
Muppet Treasure Island starred TIM CURRY for Fozzie’s sake, giving some of the best acting the world has ever seen to, essentially, someone’s right hand!
The Grey
Liam Neeson heads up a group of oil rig workers whose plane crashes in Alaska.
Coriolanus
Make it your new year’s resolution to get a bit of culture and start with this adaptation of a lesser known Shakespeare play...
Underworld: Awakening 3D
Kate Beckinsale returns in PVC for the fourth instalment in the Vampire/Werewolf series.
Shame
It’s written and directed by UK artist Steve McQueen, so it should be “arty”. And by that I mean borderline porn!
The Iron Lady
"It looks like this film is in much safer hands than the coal mines (again, ask your dad)..."
MIssion Impossible 4
Crazy stunts and explosions galore - definitely one for the action fans.
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
My initial distrust for US remakes gives way when faced with the idea of David Fincher directing, and with a soundtrack from Trent Reznor. If it doesn’t work, you can always just shut your eyes.
Sherlock Holmes 2
The plot thickens as Robert Downey Jr. returns as the world’s most famous fictional detective. I prefer Columbo personally, but the last one was pretty good.
The Thing
Atmospheric horror remake, lots of snow and blood – sounds like last Christmas.
Happy Feet 2
"It also includes the new post Ice Age trend for having incidental comic relief. Instead of a squirrel with an acorn, it’s a pair of existentially pondering krill named Will and Bill..."
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 1
"Glittery vampires, werewolves with six packs, yet somehow less than six nipples..."
The Rum Diary
"Fewer bats and more ex-pats than Fear and Loathing..."
The Human Centipede 2: Full Sequence
"Another sicko, another centipede..."
Machine Gun Preacher
"Gerard Butler finally shows that he can act..."
Immortals
"The job falls to a peasant who appears to have been groomed by Zeus since birth like some Olympian rent boy..."
Real Steel
Rocky with robots. Surely there will be a montage, probably it will this time involve welding. Awesome!
The Three Musketeers 3D
The four (?) famous Frenchmen save France again, this time in 3d mostly facing the screen.
Hell and Back Again
Interesting and very personal look at being a soldier in and after Afghanistan, straight from the Sundance film festival.
Don't Be Afraid of the Dark
Written by Guillermo Del Toro, this film promises genuine chills as a young girl moves into an old house to find something already living within its walls.
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