Epic, the latest big-budget animated adventure from Blue Sky studios which gave us the Ice Age films among others, is based on William Joyce’s book The Leaf Men and the Brave Good Bugs. In a storyline that may prove confusing for littlies, Mary Katherine or MK (Amanda Seyfried) returns to her family home to visit her ultra-nerdy scientist dad (Jason
Read moreTime once again to break out the earplugs and the Panadol as another pop-cultural icon undergoes an oppressively loud and visually frenzied cinematic re-birthing. Here it’s Superman in Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel. This film is sure to divide audiences between those who applaud its fidelity to the original Superman comic, youngsters who love the way it mimics the mass
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Read moreFor the first fifteen minutes of the slow-moving Argentinian crime drama, Everybody Has a Plan, audiences will be wondering what the hell is going on. The film jumps back and forth between various scenarios, each of which features Viggo Mortensen as an apparently different character. In one he’s a clean-cut doctor, in another a dishevelled and disillusioned husband to wife
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Read moreShaun of the Dead and Warm Bodies showed that there is something inherently comical about zombie movies. These films suggested that the sight of actors in bad makeup staggering around and chewing on people’s intestine had become ridiculous and lost its ability to shock. In that light, Brad Pitt’s latest film World War Z seemed to be courting ridicule with
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