Christopher Nolan and Christian Bale complete their Batman trilogy – following Batman Begins and The Dark Knight – with an ambitious, apocalyptic drama in which Tom Hardy’s musclebound Bane is planning to wipe Gotham City off the map.
Everything feels off in this eco-friendly fable in which a 12-year-old boy (Zac Efron) searches for a “real” tree to impress earnest Audrey (Taylor Swift). The trees were wiped out by the foolish Once-ler and a wicked capitalist has exploited the town’s lack of clean air for profit. The animation is bright and garish, the humour humourless and the romance lacks charm
Walter Hill is one of American’s most underrated action directors and this deeply unsettling 1981 thriller, set in Louisiana’s swampland, is one of the auteur’s finest. A dysfunctional group of National Guardsman (including Powers Boothe and Keith Carradine) embark on a routine weekend exercise and end up being inexplicably picked off by a group of inscrutable Cajun hunters.
Mark Wahlberg, since the splendidly silly The Other Guys, has morphed into a comic actor and it’s paying dividends – certainly better than dim actioners such as Max Payne.
The resurrected Dallas is riddled with far too many pretty people (Jesse Metcalfe, Julie Gonzalo) but it’s still the old stagers – Sue Ellen, Bobby Ewing, and, of course, the reptilian JR Ewing (Larry Hagman, still wonderful) – who make these slickly packaged episodes of oil skullduggery compelling.
If you’re a sucker for girls who use a bow and arrow, but found The Hunger Games too violent, we have fantastic news.
If you’re a sucker for girls who use a bow and arrow, but found The Hunger Games too violent, we have fantastic news. The year’s most popular animated film, Brave , is now available on Blu-ray.
In Jennifer Westfeldt’s shockingly disagreeable romantic comedy, she manages to reduce Jon Hamm (Don Draper), and Kristen Wiig (Bridesmaids), to mere ciphers, with not one decent funny line.
Yves Montand is riveting as César, a hyperactive, wealthy scrap-metal merchant who smokes big fat cigars, drives fast and adores the exquisite, younger Rosalie (Romy Schneider).