With a title like Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter you would be forgiven for expecting either an iconoclastic satire of the great emancipator, one of the most revered figures in US history or an over the top Evil Dead style action horror film. Unfortunately, you’d be wrong on both counts as this film is neither exciting nor funny and is really
Read moreWith its clunky dialogue and outrageously implausible story, Step Up 4 (yes 4) Miami Heat is every bit as ridiculous as a cynical ageing film reviewer might hope. Despite touting itself as up to the minute high energy teen entertainment, it’s basically a Pat boon or Elvis movie about kids puttin’ on a show but tricked up with techno, hip
Read moreThe Amazing Spiderman is a reboot of the web-slinger franchise rather than a fourth Toby Maguire / Kirsten Dunst film and while it delves a little further into Peter Parker’s back story there’s not a lot distinguishing this from the earlier films. Andrew Garfield stars as Spidey/ Peter Parker a kid genius who lusts after classmate Gwen (Not Mary Jane)
Read moreHysteria is, believe it or not, a romantic comedy about the development of the vibrator in Victorian England and it may turn out to be one of the funniest films of the year. Set in the late 1880’s, a time of social and intellectual upheaval, the film fictionalises the creation of the sex aid as a treatment for the condition
Read moreWith Ted, Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane has stitched together the rom com and the “man child” genres for a mostly ridiculous, often offensive and occasionally funny film. There has been a spate of man-child films in recent years – just think of anything with Adam Sandler – but Ted takes the man-child concept to another level. John (Mark Wahlberg)
Read moreAs anyone who has attended the Big Day Out or even the overseas events like Glastonbury would attest, the outdoor music festival is a bizarre world unto itself: a chaotic collision of musical styles, seething crowds, freaky looking punters, disgusting food and more often than not, mud. You Instead, which was filmed amid Scotland’s T in the Park festival, perfectly
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