Lauren Horta

The Great Gatsby

‘Romeo + Juliet’ and ‘Moulin Rouge!’ showed us that Australian director Baz Luhrmann can throw a hell of a party. Now, after the epic drabness of ‘Australia’ he pulls the stereo out of storage and does it again. The best scene in this fast and furiou...

Iron Man 3

Calling ‘Iron Man 3’ a mixed bag doesn’t really do justice to the heady peaks and interminable troughs in this scrappy but overwhelmingly likeable superhero sequel. In the minus column, there’s the tedious, talky first act, the script’s uneasy attemp...

Safe Haven

Distraught wife Erin Tierney boards a bus bound for Atlanta to avoid the cops. She alights early in the quaint fishing community of Southport, North Carolina. In this picture-postcard idyll, Erin rechristens herself Katie Feldman and lands a job as a...

The Big Wedding

Scary Movie 5

And so it continues… In 2000 the Wayans brothers scored big with their silly dumbed-down horror spoof ‘Scary Movie’, which followed a group of kids stalked by a serial killer. Thirteen years later, with Anna Faris and Regina Hall both signing off the...

Amour

Cinema feeds on stories of love and death, but how often do filmmakers really offer new or challenging perspectives on either? Michael Haneke’s ‘Amour’ is devastatingly original and unflinching in the way it examines the effect of love on death, and...

Olympus Has Fallen

Hollywood’s funny way of celebrating Barack Obama’s re-election is to put the White House through as much hell as possible just to prove its resilience. In September, Channing Tatum will hold the fort against an invasion in Roland Emmerich’s ‘White H...

The Croods

The Croods in this animation are a prehistoric family who have escaped death by disease, mammoth, big cat and other assorted nasties via the simple ruse of staying in their cave whenever they can. It’s a strategy dear to the heart of brawny patriarch...