The nations of Earth are at peace and, using recovered alien technology, have collaborated on an immense defence programme to protect the planet. So that’s nice. But, 20 years on from the extremely enjoyable and […]
Directors Chris Renaud and Yarrow Cheney’s Illumination Entertainment (Despicable Me) studio animated feature begins brilliantly by imagining what the animals a Manhattan apartment building get up to when their owners leave them alone go to work. They speak English […]
A man called Alexandre finds a woman called Diane’s mobile phone in a restaurant, calls her up, charms her on the phone and invites her out for dinner. Rowing with her ex-lover Bruno, her law firm partner, […]
Co-writer/ director Rawson Marshall Thurber’s harmless, raucous, lowbrow, awfully silly 2016 buddy movie pairs Dwayne Johnson and Kevin Hart. If you really love both of them, that will be the good news. They’re the current Little and […]
Director Brian Levant’s good-natured 1994 hit comedy is a desperate-to-please, juvenile farce based on William Hannah and Joseph Barbera’s beloved Sixties TV cartoon series The Flintstones (1960–1966). Despite its shortcomings, it has speed, some funny […]
Director James B Clark’s 1963 children’s movie Flipper is remade by writer-director Alan Shapiro in 1996 with Elijah Wood and Paul Hogan to mild effect. Everything is brisk, businesslike and professional but just none too ecxiting. […]
Writer-director Hal Hartley makes as much as he can of a bold if limited idea, filming the same story three times on a different location – New York, Berlin, then Tokyo – with a different […]
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