There comes a point when you can have too much of a good thing, and for the first hour of this overlong re-teaming of comedy queens, Tina 30 Rock Fey and Amy Parks and Recreation Poehler, the kind of over indulgent, unedited Saturday Night Live hit-n-miss sketch format script that so often bloats contemporary American comedy, threatens to suffocate this union of talent.
Read MoreThe fact that this has had a territorial title change in its journey across the pond, speaks volumes about Charlie Brown and the gang’s appeal outside of America.
Read MoreTodd Haynes latest examination of social taboo is a sumptuous parable that is best described as swoonsome. Seductive in its ability to make you fall in love with the delicate characters, get swept up by the music, or drown in the soft focus recreation of 1950’s New York.
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It feels a shame to rag on a franchise that had so much traction going into its potentially rousing finale, but like one of Katniss Everdeen’s wayward arrows, this lands with a dull thud, completely missing its target.
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The movies have a habit of making the criminal underworld seem appealing, with its charismatic inhabitants idolised as men born into a life of racketeering and shallow graves, so casting Johnny Depp as one of America’s most infamously violent gangsters might seem a bit of a gamble. An actor who’s had a string of high-profile flops playing larger-than-life characters covered in prosthetic make-up, being asked to play, well, essentially the same thing.
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This George Lucas produced animated fantasy is as strange as its title suggests, but is lacking in anything approaching the
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Music biographies are ten-a-penny, but whether it’s Dylan anthology I’m Not There, or Lennon retrospective, Nowhere Boy, they’re not that
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There’s a danger with any zeitgeist-capturing documentary that it arrives slightly out-of-sync with cultural events, so is little more
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This second instalment in the Marvel jigsaw puzzle is a huge movie for many reasons; it’s a conclusion to
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Set against the backdrop of Stalinist Russia, Safehouse director Espinosa has a doozy of a hook; a child homicide case
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