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Despicable Me 2

Building on the success of the first film, the adorable and hilarious minions are given much more screen time this time around. When Gru is approached by the Anti-Villain League… Read More
Despicable Me

Gearing up to go and see the sequel to this amusing if somewhat forgettable animated action comedy, I suddenly discovered that my girlfriend hadn’t seen it. So we sat down… Read More
Blast of Silence

An intriguing little oddity from the Criterion Collection that rarely seems to get talked about much. Shot low budget on the streets of New York at Christmas, it’s the story… Read More
Spring Breakers

Harmony Korine’s spring break helldrive finally arrives (albeit via iTunes) after a healthy festival tour that whipped up some sterling word of mouth, not least for James Franco’s chameleonic turn… Read More
REVIEW: Spring Breakers

It came as quite a shock to discover that Spring Breakers is the first Harmony Korine film I’ve ever seen. I’ve been aware of the man’s work since way back… Read More
Epic

In a busy summer filled with animated blockbusters, the modest charms of Epic will struggle to find an audience, or make much of an impression. Read More
REVIEW: Epic

I remember when I saw the first teaser trailer to Epic almost a year ago. Set to the gorgeous strains of Snow Patrol’s What If This Storm Ends? It looking… Read More
The Place Beyond The Pines

It has taken a long time for Derek Cianfrance’s crime drama to make it to Hong Kong (in fact it doesn’t even open officially here for another month) but it… Read More
Disconnect

Murderball director Henry Alex Rubin turns his hand to fiction in this multi-stranded drama examining different forms of cyber-crime and our interconnectedness through technology. Similar in tone to something like… Read More
Citizen Kane

The first time I’ve seen Orson Welles’ mould-breaking classic on the big screen, and it looked as wonderful as ever. Not much to say that has not been said already,… Read More
John Dies at the End

A rather baffling melange of horror, science-fiction and comedy that screams out to be embraced as a late night cult classic in the vein of Repo Man or director Don… Read More
Side Effects

For what is purported to be his final theatrical release, director Steven Soderbergh goes for a pulpy trashy thriller rather than anything too highbrow. Rooney Mara plays a troubled young… Read More
World War Z

Plagued with problems every step of the way, running vastly overbudget, scraping and totally reshooting the entire third act, losing its core fanbase by largely disgarding Max Brooks’ source novel… Read More
Jodorowsky’s Dune

Chilean-born Alejandro Jodorowsky is responsible for some of the weirdest, most psychedelic movies of the 1970s. His breakthrough hit was the quasi-Western El Topo which become a monster hit on… Read More
Smashed

Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Aaron Paul are both excellent in this low budget comedy drama from director James Ponsoldt. They play a young couple, very much in love, who both… Read More
V/H/S/2

This second dose of first person found footage horror antics from seven vivacious young filmmakers from around the world proves far too similar an experience as the first film did.… Read More
REVIEW: V/H/S/2

I wasn’t overly enamoured by last year’s V/H/S but nevertheless I was looking forward to the follow-up, especially after early reports out of Sundance promised a leaner, more lighthearted affair… Read More
Identity Thief

Melissa McCarthy continues her meteoric rise into the Hollywood comedy A-list, this time opposite perennial straight man Jason Bateman, as a habitual con artist who steals the identity of Sandy… Read More