Film & Cinema

Review: Coriolanus

For his directorial debut Ralph Fiennes has decided to do one of the more obscure Shakespeares, one for the completists. I like that because it means that this is that rare Shakespeare where I’m not the only person in the audience who doesn’t know what is going to happen.

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Review: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

The film they are calling the worst ever to be nominated for a Best Film Oscar, this totters into cinemas like a Charles Haughtrey Atlas, staggering under the great ball of opprobrium and abuse that has been cheerfully heaped upon it.

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Review: Star Wars Episode 1 - The Phantom Menace 3D

For his next travesty the evil tyrant George Lucas has decided to bury the entire Star Wars saga under a coating of 3D mush. This adds precisely nothing to the experience but means you spend a lot of the time squinting at murky, blurry images thinking the film can’t possibly be meant to look like that.

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Review: The Woman In Black

The fourth feature from the reborn Hammer House of Horror stable is a bid to match the tension and shocks that made the Paranormal Activity films so successful.

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Review: The Muppets

You can’t not like the Muppets. Trust me, I tried. When I was young I never used to watch The Muppet Show – even this couch potato wasn’t generally sat inside watching ITV at 4pm on Sunday – and on the occasions I was I didn’t really take to them.

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