THE DIVERGENT SERIES: ALLEGIANT (2016)
byIdentity and the search for self play an integral role in the structure of good YA fiction. It’s therefore as ironic as it is…
GENRE: ACTION-ADVENTURE
STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS (2015)
byThere’s a moment halfway through Star Wars: The Force Awakens when I realised I was completely on board with the movie. It’s the wordless…
THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY – PART 2 (2015)
byMockingjay simply isn’t a very long book. It’s worth acknowledging that when pondering why it was a misguided decision to split the final Hunger Games…
SPY (2015)
byWhen 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)
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…
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…