Co-writer/director Franco Zeffirelli’s 1990 Shakespeare movie has an unexpected star in Mel Gibson, who personifies the much-tormented Prince of Denmark lustily and honourably, giving a strong, earnest performance. It was a brave thing to do since Gibson’s only […]
Lesley-Anne Down enjoys a huge but ill-starred star role as the resolute archaeologist Erica Baron in the infamous 1981 so-bad-it’s-good movie Sphinx. Lesley-Anne Down enjoys a huge but ill-starred star role in the infamous 1981 […]
Writer-director Ryan Coogler tells the true story of Oscar Grant III, a 22-year-old African American California Bay Area resident, who crosses paths with friends, enemies, family and strangers on the last day of 2008. It ends […]
Grace of Monaco is not devoid of interest but it is a drab mess, with an oddly blank Nicole Kidman and a weirdly brooding Tim Roth both hopelessly miscast both as physical and character types as […]
Soppy American police officers Schmidt (Jonah Hill) and Jenko (Channing Tatum) are once again sent age-inappropriately undercover, this time as students at a local college, after finally having made their way through high school twice. Nothing much has […]
Writer-director James Cameron’s expensive 1989 sci-fi thriller was a very rare box-office flop for him, taking only $90million worldwide. It’s hard to know quite what went wrong. It looks stunning and the trick work is […]
Take the best bits of 2001: A Space Odyssey, and the worst parts of The Abyss. Add in pieces of Contact, Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Apollo 13 and just a dash of […]
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