Sometimes a single stand-out quality can make bad film tolerable and that’s the case with medieval sword and sorcery adventure lark Seventh Son. The plot makes no sense, the dialogue sounds like it was written by a 13-year-old ‘Dungeons and Dragons’ fan, the non-white characters are disturbingly one-dimensional, the cgi monsters look fake and too it often it feels as
Read moreThe Hunger Games: Mocking Jay Part 1 suffers the Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows curse where, in a final cash grab, the last instalment of a film franchise is split in two making the first half a mostly dull prelude to the actual finale. That’s not to say Mocking Jay Part 1 doesn’t have its attractions. Director Francis Lawrence
Read moreFrom Day of the Locust’s nightmarish vision of a perverse and corrupt Hollywood to Mulholland Drive’s dream of stardom turned nightmare, many films have explored the bizarre and disturbing underbelly of Hollywood. David Cronenberg’s latest film, Maps To The Stars explores this world through the director’s typically bizarre and unsettling vision. In Cronenberg’s nihilistic take on tinsel town, Hollywood is
Read moreLiam Neeson’s latest film Non-stop will no doubt have had action junkies salivating. The no-nonsense title and a poster that features Neeson blasting away with a pistol in the middle of an aeroplane cabin, suggests a Taken-style parade of relentless and mindless action. Those who delight in cinematic carnage may, however, be slightly peeved to discover that, aside from a
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