DVD: Rock of Ages
You don’t expect much from a musical built on a foundation of 1980s glam-metal anthems, but you do expect it to be fun.
October 14, 2012
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You don’t expect much from a musical built on a foundation of 1980s glam-metal anthems, but you do expect it to be fun.
This year’s second live-action version of Snow White re-imagines the fairy tale as a dark, rain-lashed, mud-spattered epic, full of siege engines, burning villages, and all sorts of borrowings from the work of Tolkien and C S Lewis.
“Our daughter has been abducted by one of your beige lunatics,” maintains Bill Murray’s concerned dad in this charming tale (above) of two runaways, orphaned Sam (Jared Gilman) and cross Suzy (Kara Hayward), a pair of ostracized 12-year-olds who fall in love.
The Dictator is more conventional than Sacha Baron Cohen’s last two films, in that it has a proper script, and no duping of unsuspecting members of the public.
When a gang of good-looking students goes to stay in the eponymous holiday accommodation, they’re soon being menaced by supernatural forces.
Joss Whedon’s witty superhero blockbuster was a colossal hit, but did it deserve to be? It has lots of cracking screwball banter between Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr), Thor (Chris Hemsworth), Captain America (Chris Evans), the Hulk (Mark Ruffalo), and the rest.
Nine years since the last one, this fourth slice of American Pie is filled to the crust with affection for its characters – but it relies on the audience having that same affection.
The Blu-ray of the boardgame adaptation is out now, and has plenty of extras for fans of naval tech.
As in Suzanne Collins’s zillion-selling, post-apocalyptic novels, a teenage girl (Jennifer Lawrence) has to fight 23 other teens to the death in a televised contest.