The Ides of March shouldn’t work. It’s all been seen before: a dirty election, a two-faced politician, an idealistic assistant losing the faith, even Clooney in the director’s seat. And yet this seasoned formula as familiar as the assassination on a March afternoon more than two thousand years ago still […]

In 2009, J.J. Abrams surprised us with his marvellous reboot of the Star Trek franchise and once again, he embarks on another spectacular ride into space with this sequel. There have not been many Hollywood reboots that have played kindly to audiences in recent years and, quite frankly, neither have […]

Starring Jason Statham and Agata Buzek, Hummingbird is a film about an ex soldier on the run living in the criminal underworld of London, when he get’s himself in a spot of bother he finds help from Buzek who plays Cristina..the nun. Even though the plot may sound a little silly, this […]

Identity Thief is about Identity Theft. The clue is in the name, really. Jason Bateman plays hardworking and straight-laced Sandy Patterson, who in one disastrous morning after having his bank card declined and an arrest warrant put out in his name, finds out he has been a victim of fraud. […]

Starring Michael Shannon, the Iceman is a film adaptation of the life of  Richard “The Iceman” Kuklinski, who some still believe was –  and always will be –  the best contract killer that ever existed. He killed over one hundred men and showed no sorrow for the pain he had caused. […]

This is a book review of the book “The Switch” by Elmore Leonard. The crime novel was released in 1978 and the film adaptation of the book is being filmed currently as a prequel to the 1997 film “Jackie Brown” the adaptation of the novel “Rum Punch”. The Switch is […]

So this seems to be the month for heavy hitting political films based on great American presidents. Yes, that is what you get from Lincoln, but from Hyde Park on Hudson, you get meh. I was looking forward to it; it’s set during a fascinating period in history and centred […]

To be fair, I should have known, really, with the fact that the main thing Movie 43 was screaming was how many known names and faces were in it, instead of anything whatsoever to do with the plot, characters and theme – that this movie was going to suck. And […]