Following It’s Complicated, Hope Springs is Meryl Streep’s second rom com recently that centres on a broken marriage. While it has its pedestrian moments, Hope Springs, is thankfully darker and funnier than It’s Complicated. Streep and Tommy Lee Jones play a married couple whose relationship is on life support. Any romantic spark seems to have been snuffed out by their
Read moreWe all know the drill with the Bourne films: frenetic chases and elaborate, utterly implausible action allwrapped in a thin veil of grim, LeCaresque intrigue. The latest addition to the franchise, The Bourne Legacy sticks to the formula but not before a ponderous prologue full of confusing waffle about Treadstone, Black friars, Larx and biochemical experiments. Eventually it emerges that
Read moreThe Campaign tries to fit a political comedy into the Will Ferrell movie template which means we have the joy of seeing Ferrell go nuts but also a plot so predictable that you will feel like Nostradamus as you watch the film. Just imagine Talladega Nights nascar driver Ricky Bobby as a politician and you’ll have a pretty good idea
Read moreSorry to go all Jerry Seinfeld but what is the deal with these weird films set in the back of limo’s. First, there was nightmarish French freak-fest Holy Motors and now David Cronenberg’s bizarre dystopian limo odyssey Cosmopolis. Set in a surreal, Kafkaesque New York, Cosmopolis sees Wall Street titan, Eric Packer (Robert Pattinson) creeping through grid-locked traffic in his
Read moreWith a title like Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter you would be forgiven for expecting either an iconoclastic satire of the great emancipator, one of the most revered figures in US history or an over the top Evil Dead style action horror film. Unfortunately, you’d be wrong on both counts as this film is neither exciting nor funny and is really
Read moreWith its clunky dialogue and outrageously implausible story, Step Up 4 (yes 4) Miami Heat is every bit as ridiculous as a cynical ageing film reviewer might hope. Despite touting itself as up to the minute high energy teen entertainment, it’s basically a Pat boon or Elvis movie about kids puttin’ on a show but tricked up with techno, hip
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