SPECTRE (2015)
byTo 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…
GENRE: ACTION-ADVENTURE
TOMORROWLAND (2015)
byOne 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…
PAN (2015)
byEarly reviews suggested that Joe Wright’s Peter Pan prequel (which purports to tell how he became The Boy Who Never Grew Up) was a…
JURASSIC WORLD (2015)
byThe Jurassic Park franchise has always been looking back 65 million years (wondering how modern man would cope with the return of prehistoric animals),…
THE MARTIAN (2015)
byIf you’re going to entrust any director with the task of delivering a gripping film about loneliness in the vast emptiness of space, surely…
EVEREST (2015)
byWhen a film’s based on a true story, it often means it’s telling such an incredible story that it’s hard to believe it’s actually…
PIXELS (2015)
byLaziness is how we get films like Pixels. The desperately sad lack of commitment on display here is astounding, as Adam Sandler and cohorts…
FANTASTIC FOUR (2015)
byThere’s no way to argue otherwise; the main reason a Fantastic Four reboot’s been made is so the rights can stay with 20th Century Fox. The situation…
MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – ROGUE NATION (2015)
byThere’s never enough at stake in Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation. It whizzes along at a quip-a-minute, with stunning stunts from handsome Tom Cruise, and…
WATERWORLD (1995)
byWaterworld still evokes feelings of cinematic misfortune, two decades after the post-apocalyptic action film’s summer release, but time’s been kind to this 1995 ‘flopbuster’. Indeed, despite…
ANT-MAN (2015)
byAnt-Man, the newest film in Marvel’s Cinematic Universe (MCU) is a little rougher around the edges than some of the studio’s recent offerings, but…
TERMINATOR GENISYS (2015)
byFairly early into Terminator Genisys, Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Pops utters this line to Emilia Clarke’s Sarah Connor: “This is a meaningless gesture. To hold onto…