GETTING in on the reboot racket, horror show Blair Witch relaunches the long-dormant brand, putting fresh blood in charge with director Adam Wingard and screenwriter ...
THERE’S a surprisingly touching moment at the end of Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie where Edina Monsoon (Jennifer Saunders), thinking she is about to drown in a ...
IF NOTHING else, Bridget Jones’s Baby can bask in the glory of being a less dismal than usual reboot of an aging franchise.
WITH the TV adaptation of novelist John Le Carre’s The Night Manager drawing attention in the US after its successful UK run, it would seem to be an especially fortuitous ...
THE old flower-power slogan Stick it to the Man may be a motto for the dropout family at the centre of Captain Fantastic, but the man isn’t likely to feel especially ...
IT’S BEEN 20 years since Independence Day blew up the White House and blazed new trails with blockbuster records.
FOR some time now, whenever the conversation turns toward the casting of a non-white actor for the next James Bond film, Idris Elba is usually the first name to ...
IF YOU imagine the arena of theatrical film releasing as a huge games arcade, then computer-game-to-film adaptation Ratchet and Clank, released in the US by Focus ...
ALTHOUGH probably faithful enough to appease hardcore fans of the game franchise it’s based on, animated feature Ratchet & Clank represents a resolutely middling ...
IN MANY respects, The Huntsman: Winter’s War, producer Joe Roth's follow-up to 2012’s Snow White and the Huntsman, is a slicker, more accessible, possibly more commercial ...
SHOW people may superstitiously refuse to call Macbeth anything other than “the Scottish play”, but the producers of this latest film version have lucked out by ...
THERE is a scene in Miss You Already where Toni Collette’s Milly, having just learned she has breast cancer, shows her kids a little animated film to explain the ...
DESCRIBED onstage at its Sundance premiere self-deprecatingly (and somewhat unfairly) by its writer-director, Leslye Headland (Bachelorette), as When Harry Met Sally ...
BACK in the late 1990s, when Da Ali G Show pulled in big ratings and before the Kazakh clown Borat spun off with his own film, comedian Sacha Baron Cohen was arguably ...
Director James Kent’s WWI-set epic Testament of Youth encompasses nearly all of the virtues of classical British period drama and nearly none of the vices.
THE disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong’s rise and fall are ploddingly chronicled in The Program, director Stephen Frears’ latest foray into docudrama.
The documentary Roger Waters The Wall seamlessly stitches together footage from several different 2013 performances of the live stadium show in which ex-Pink Floyd ...
Lila and Eve stars Viola Davis as a mother grieving over her dead son, who teams up with another bereaved mother, played by Jennifer Lopez, to seek revenge on the ...
Reprising the kind of musical performances, campus high jinks, stinging humour and sassy sisterhood on display in its eminently likeable predecessor, Pitch Perfect ...
Honestly titled if nothing else, The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel is a sluggish also-ran compared to its predecessor, 2011's retirement-themed comedy-drama ...
Launched by a much-loved children's book, A Bear Called Paddington (1958) by Michael Bond, which spawned yet more books and a clutch of TV series, Paddington Bear ...