Even by superhero film standards the latest DC offering, Aquaman is ludicrous. With its convoluted plot, ridiculous characters, strange casting and outrageously over-the-top visuals, Aquaman is a little like the dream – or perhaps nightmare – someone might have after consuming a dodgy pizza before bed time but that’s not to say this garish, lumbering monstrosity of a film doesn’t
Read moreThe Conjuring 2, director James Wan’s sequel to his impressive 2013 retro ghost story is a fiercely effective spook-fest that betters the first movie for one of the best mainstream horror films of recent years. Like the first film, The Conjuring 2 claims to be based on real events and is once again plucked from the case files of ghost
Read moreThe Fast and the Furious films have always been ludicrous but the latest instalment Furious 7 is as implausible and ridiculous as a Michael Bay film. Never have so many bad guys with machine guns shot so inaccurately, never have so many people survived savage beatings, back-breaking falls, missile attacks and car wrecks that would pulverise a normal human being.
Read moreWith films like Cabin In the Woods pulling apart horror movie tropes and the Scary Movie series lampooning the genre outright, it’s a much more difficult task for a filmmaker to scare audiences these days than it was in the past. It’s a credit to James Wan, the director of the new supernatural horror movie The Conjuring, that, for at
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