Marvel has given us Two Iron Man movies, two Hulk movies with two different Hulks, plus a Thor and a Captain America flick. Finally, we now have all those characters together in one place in “The Avengers.†The action begins as Nick Fury (Samuel L….
A hitman thriller that casts Jason Statham alongside Robert De Niro, Killer Elite doesn’t even work as a guilty pleasure: its embarrassing attempts to engage with the politics of the Middle East sit uncomfortably with the testosterone-drenched fight scenes.
“He’s reported to be slightly mad but wily as a fox,” is how Lieutenant Case (Ronald Lewis) describes Oliver Reed’s tribal leader, Ali Khan, and ripe language, rousing music and dodgy politics/accents abound in this Hammer production from 1965.
Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein are firmly booted into the gothic shade by Pedro Almodóvar’s fantastically bonkers plastic-surgery horror.
Nature doesn’t get any better than this. David Attenborough, Britain’s greatest asset, narrates the BBC’s sensational documentary on the Arctic and Antarctic.
Any love story about pained longing at a train station will inevitably draw comparisons to classic David Lean/Noel Coward romance, Brief Encounter.
Back in the mid noughties, you couldn’t move for marching and dancing penguins, so there’s something vaguely out-of-date about this Jim Carrey kids book adaptation.
Harry Potter’s film incarnation can now settle where he belongs – the pre-Christmas shopping melee.
The closest Chris Weitz had previously come to the father-son dynamic at the heart of this affecting immigration drama was in the Hugh Grant vehicle About a Boy, before he was seduced by franchise riches in The Golden Compass and New Moon.
The global economy’s in ruins, so, figures Tom Hanks, what every-one needs is a perky recession tale about a wholesome soul, Larry, who knuckles down and makes the best of it.