Film review: Arthur Christmas 3D is a feast of festive fun for the family
AS ALL intelligent children know, Santa Claus and his team of toy elves work tirelessly throughout the year from their base at the North Pole.
View ArticleFILM REVIEW: Justice plays too safe to be a truly great thriller
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View ArticleFILM REVIEW: The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 just fails to sparkle
BABY makes three in The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1, the fourth film based on the books by Stephenie Meyer, which brings the love story of a mortal and a vampire to a suitably bloody resolution.
View ArticleFilm review: Dream House
DIRECTOR Jim Sheridan's psychological thriller suffers from a nasty case of trailer-itis.
View ArticleDVD reviews: Transformers - Dark of the Moon and more
DURING a TV black-out in 1969, the crew of Apollo 11 retrieves an important Autobot artefact and returns it to Earth, unaware that, more than 40 years later, the device will spark a titanic war with...
View ArticleFilm review: My Week With Marilyn
IN THE summer of 1956, Marilyn Monroe came to Pinewood Studios, in Buckinghamshire, to shoot The Prince and The Showgirl with Sir Laurence Olivier.
View ArticleEd Byrne: Crowd Pleaser (15)
YOU’VE got to be a pretty confident comic to name your latest release Crowd Pleaser, so does the archetypal genial Irishman live up to the billing?
View ArticleFilm review: Happy Feet II soundtrack hits high notes but film is off-key
FIVE years after the original Happy Feet danced into the affections of audiences worldwide, director George Miller returns to the frozen wilderness for this pointless sequel.
View ArticleFilm review: Hugo is a triumph of style over substance
MARTIN SCORSESE swaps the mean streets of New York for the wintry boulevards of 1930s Paris for this Oscar-tipped first foray into family films, and also the 3-D format.
View ArticlePuss in Boots – it’s the cat’s whiskers
JOLLY green ogre Shrek and his sweetheart Princess Fiona amassed nearly $3bn at the global box office before heading into the fairytale sunset at the conclusion of yesteryear’s Shrek Ever After.
View ArticleNEW YEAR’S EVE (12A)Rating: ll
EVERY frame of Garry Marshall's romantic comedy is drenched in sticky sweetness, passing off greeting cards platitudes as dialogue and repeatedly reminding us that the end of one year and the beginning...
View ArticleHARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS – PART 2 (12)
AND so, after eight films and almost 20 hours of movie history, it all ends here.
View ArticleFilm review: Sherlock Holmes - A Game of Shadows
THE sleuthing is far from elementary in Guy Ritchie’s action-packed sequel to his 2009 reinvention of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s detective.
View ArticleFilm review: Alvin and the Chipmunks - Chipwrecked
IN THE latest instalment of the Chipmunks franchise, Dave (Jason Lee) heads off on a luxury cruise with singing critters Alvin, Simon and Theodore and the feisty Chipettes.
View ArticleDVD reviews: Swanny in a Spin and more
AS A man who helped England win a cricketing Ashes series in Australia for the first time in more than 20 years, spinner Graeme Swann has got plenty of good will in the bank from me.
View ArticleDaily Post DVD column: Cowboys & Aliens and more
JAKE LONERGAN (Daniel Craig) wakes disorientated in the desert with a gunshot wound and a large metal bracelet. He struts into town and is unmasked as a killer.
View ArticleFilm review: The Lady
TRUTH may be stranger than fiction, but it’s seldom more entertaining, especially when projected onto a big screen at 24 frames per second.
View ArticleDaily Post DVD reviews: Colombiana and more
BACK in 1992 Colombia, 10-year-old Cataleya witnesses the deaths of her parents at the hands of druglord Don Luis and his thug henchman, Marco. The girl heads to Chicago, determined to avenge her...
View ArticleFilm review: The Artist
SILENCE is golden, and, in the case of Michel Hazanavicius’s gorgeous black and white silent film, the gold will be a clutch of Oscars, probably including the coveted statuette for Best Picture.
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