Grimsby continues the saddening downward spiral in quality for Sacha Baron Cohen’s films. Borat, although largely regurgitated from the segments on Ali G, was often hilarious, Bruno was intermittently funny, The Dictator was disappointing but had a few comical moments whereas Grimsby is depressingly simple-minded and predictable. The film ostensibly parodies both spy films and English soccer yob culture but
Read moreKickass and X-Men First Class director Matthew Vaughan’s latest film, Kingsman: The Secret Service is a slick, inventive, action-packed but hollow pastiche of British spy movies. Drawing on the Bond films, the 1960’s TV show The Avengers and Men in Black, the film concerns a secret organisation of tweed-coated gentlemen spies known as The Kingsman who operate outside the reach
Read morePsychological thriller Before I Go to Sleep will inevitably draw comparisons with Chris Nolan’s Memento. Like Memento this film features a character with anterograde amnesia whose lost memories hides a disturbing past. Unfortunately, this film is not the wonderfully clever and fascinating puzzle that Memento proved to be. Nicole Kidman plays Christine Lucas a woman who wakes each morning to
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