One of the year’s most tedious films, Kathryn Bigelow’s frequently incomprehensible follow-up to the Oscar-winning The Hurt Locker caused some controversy by implying that CIA torture led to the finding of Osama Bin Laden. Â Â Â Â
Olivia Colman, as an aggressive relationship counsellor, tries valiantly to rescue this contrived, occasionally witty Brit romcom.
Die Hard, possibly the most satisfying of all the Eighties actioners, is granted a fifth outing and it’s sloppy.
Koichi lives in Kagoshima in the shadow of a volcano with his single mum and grandparents. He pines for his family to reunite but that’s highly unlikely, so he and his brother go on an adventure. Â Â Â Â
Armando Iannucci’s US version of The Thick of It isn’t as droll and caustic (it badly misses Malcolm Tucker) as the Brit version, but Julia Louis-Dreyfus is very good value as potty-mouthed Selina. Â Â Â Â
“I’m nine feet tall, I weigh six hundred and forty three pounds, got a bit of a temper on me,†maintains Wreck-It-Ralph (voiced by John C Reilly), a lonely arcade-game villain who longs for acceptance.    Â
The critics haven’t been universally kind to Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby. Anthony Quinn, The Independent’s film reviewer, sums up the criticism: “It has energy, but not subtlety; dazzle, but not depth.” As a filmgoer it is not what you want to hear; as an advertiser it is exactly what you want to hear. Â Â Â Â
Every year I realise far too late that I should have encouraged more people to support the European Film Festival. Although it has always been a well-attended event, there still seems to be far too many people who don’t recognise how much it has to offer.
Roger Michell’s unofficial sequel to The King’s Speech has Bertie and the Queen Mum visiting Franklin D Roosevelt (Bill Murray) at his mother’s country mansion.
A star-studded cast grace this poorly scripted Untouchables rip-off, set in late-1940s LA.