Say, what better way to counter the danger of a Valentine’s Day argument with thy beloved than by watching a movie – thereby cutting out the need for any chinwag?…

2012 was a good year for animated movies. Not a great one. Just good. Pixar fumbled again while others continued to up their game. It was the year of spookiness, with three major entries playing off the horror genre. While …

Before we can delve into my top 10 British films of 2012, we really need to clarify what we mean by the term ‘British film’. A movie made in Britain, set in Britain, and/or with lots of Brits in it? …

Imagine a movie NOT based on a comic book and NOT starring Adam Sandler. This is my personal list of the worst and best dramas of 2012 (movies, not TV). Five of each. That makes ten. Here they are…

Women! They’re like men, only hotter. And unequivocally egalitarian society we live in nowadays, it’s only right and proper those long-legged lovelies have some movies all of their very own to watch when they’re kicking back after a hard day’s …

Director Ben Wheatley made audiences sit up and go “Oh. That was weird.” with his last movie, Kill List, while at the same time attracting lots of nice words from critic-type people. Meaning there was always going to be …

Though Halloween is a great time for watching horror movies, recent theatrical offerings in that genre have oft tended towards the lacklustre. Meaning it’s a bonus worthy of the dark lord Beelzebub himself that some of the finest cinematic horrors …

Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master has been in the works for what feels like the passing of a geological age, with the writer-director having initially struggled to secure funding for a movie which reputedly offers a loosely fictionalised take on …

One story above all others is paramount in the thoughts of movie-lovers today, and sadly it is the same one gripping news agendas: the mass shooting in the Colorado screening of The Dark Knight Rises which has left 12 people …

With the passing of Comic-Con last weekend and The Dark Knight Rises opening this Friday, it’s as fine a time as any to grab a calculator and figure out which is actually the biggest comic book-based movie franchise of all …

Most of the pre-release excitement about Skyfall, aka Bond 23, has so far centred on the prospect of 007, played by the returning Daniel Craig, going toe-to-toe with new bad guy Raoul Silva, played by Javier Bardem. However another …

With the unleashing of Dark Knight Rises in a couple of weeks time, the 2012 tsunami of uber-blockbusters will finally be over, meaning we can all start fretting over which 2013 mega-movies we like the look of best. Elysium is …

Despite the mostly hostile reception afforded to Prometheus, and the lingering bad taste left by The Phantom Menace, the prequel remains firmly in favour with those big shot Hollywood execs. The Wizard of Oz is the latest-cum-oldest classic …