Water for Elephants

Water for Elephants

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Certainly not the greatest show on earth, Water For Elephants gets two stars – the elephant earns it one more.

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Blitz

Blitz

By Lisa Keddie

Blitz is basically 90-plus minutes of ‘bloody’ good, gritty fun masking a familiar storyline, with a pounding soundtrack that, at times, threatens to blast the eardrums.

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The Messenger

The Messenger

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The Messenger dwells upon a unit of the military that usually only makes cameo appearances in other films.

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Gorbaciof

Gorbaciof

By Gabriella Apicella

Casting Toni Servillo these days is becoming something of a short-hand for a sympathetic but highly flawed character.

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Cedar Rapids

Cedar Rapids

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It may not receive much hard-hitting critical kudos but Cedar Rapids is a cheering piece of cinema about the innate goodness in ordinary people

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Arthur

Arthur

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There are a few laughs and some clever lines but the film never quite lives up to what it could have been.

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Thor

Thor

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Imagine Much Ado About Nothing performed in the style of Iron Man and you’re almost there.

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Scream 4

Scream 4

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Aside from the odd garage door and gun, this is a knife-wielding operation only – there is no room for torture porn here.

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Rio

Rio

By Kyle Richardson

Anne Hathaway and Jesse Eisenberg soar as feathered and tethered lovebirds on a quest to save their species in this beak-chic rom-com.

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Sucker Punch

Sucker Punch

By Lucy Atkinson

Snyder has proved himself as the man to go to for solid comic book adaptations, but when working from his own material he is sadly lacking in both focus and flare.

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