trainwreck

TRAINWRECK (2015)

It’s both a success and failure that the funniest thing about Judd Apatow’s latest film is basketball star LeBron James. I’ve never seen him...

KRAMPUS (2015)

It’s impossible to talk about Christmas horror movies without referencing Gremlins, and Krampus knows that. Boasting a similar family-fight-festive-critters premise to Joe Dante’s 1984...

bridge of spies

BRIDGE OF SPIES (2015)

Bridge of Spies (or Mr. Hanks Goes to East Berlin) is a seriously classy piece of refined, plush cinema that manages to balance the...

the good dinosaur

THE GOOD DINOSAUR (2015)

Pixar’s second film of 2015 couldn’t be more different from its first. Whereas Inside Out was a complex, grown-up fantasy very much from the studio...

STEVE JOBS (2015)

Biopics tend to follow a painfully familiar template. Frequently, out of an eagerness to not miss a single detail, films based on real events...

SPY (2015)

When she was a kid, Susan Cooper’s (Melissa McCarthy) mother used to leave a note in her lunchbox each day that read: “Give up...

SPECTRE (2015)

To follow on from the billion-dollar box office success of 2012’s Skyfall must have been a bit of a daunting task for director Sam...

TOMORROWLAND (2015)

One of this summer’s biggest box-office disappointments was Disney’s Tomorrowland, from director Brad Bird (The Iron Giant, Ratatouille). It made $208m worldwide, but cost...

POLTERGEIST (2015)

Tobe Hooper’s original Poltergeist is a great film and the story of its production has become legend, so even a good remake’s doomed to sit in its shade....