The Despicable Me 3
After letting the Minions take the spotlight in their first solo film, Gru (Steve Carrell) returns to the forefront in The Despicable Me 3. He has left his villainous past behind him, working for the...
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Joyeux Noel: A Beautiful Christmas Movie Moment
There are not many Christmas movies that I haven’t seen. I have been an avid fan of films of the festive season ever since I used to excitedly pour over the Christmas edition of the Radio Times. Like...
San Andreas
Disaster Movies as a genre never seem to fully go out of favour and each year we get one or two new ones to add to the mix. In recent years we have mainly been supplied with alien invasion scenarios ...
Predestination
Predestination is the third film from the writer/director twins Michael and Peter Spierig. Here they have adapted a 1950’s sci-fi short by the author Robert Heinlein called All You Zombies that...
22 Jump Street
I am relatively new to the Jump Street phenomenon. The first outing for the hapless thirty year old undercover teenagers completely passed me by. But when I saw the trailer for the most recent offeri...
X-Men: Days of Future Past
The near future is an apocalyptic wasteland. Giant robots known as Sentinels exist to eradicate the mutant race. Those that are left survive day to day, hoping for a way to end the nightmare. Kitty P...
Gravity
Anyone who watched the trailers for Gravity when they appeared much earlier this year would have been more than a little excited. The gut wrenching visuals revealed in the preview promised so much. I...
Star Trek: Into Darkness
It feels like an age since I wrote the preview for Star Trek: Into Darkness and my excitement has been building steadily given just how much I enjoyed the 2009 reboot to the franchise. Once again J J...
Star Trek IX: Insurrection
Insurrection is the ninth film outing for the starship Enterprise and her crew. Following on from the critical success of the first ‘Next Generation’ film Star Trek: First Contact, once a...
Argo (2012)
Ben Affleck never seemed to be anyone’s favourite actor. Not only did he feature as a punchline to a song in Team America, he seldom gets credit for the Oscar he won alongside his writing partn...