Vue York

2012

Read the director's guide the perfect disaster movie...

9

We’re dropped into the world of 9 much like its titular character is: with little sense of where we are and without the words, at first, to describe it. There’s nothing but desolation...

A Christmas Carol
Director Robert Zemeckis uses the motion-capture techniques developed in his previous film, 'Beowulf', to tell re-spin Charles...

Amelia

Amelia it is called, and Amelia—Earhart, that is—ye shall receive. Executive producer and star Hilary SwankJane Campion’s ‘Bright...

Cirque Du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant
The latest bid to fill the looming gap left by the end of ‘Harry Potter’ is this scattershot but entertaining adaptation of ‘The Saga of Darren Shan’, a series of kids’ books narrated by...

Couples Retreat
The residual affection for ‘Swingers’ duo Vince Vaughn and Jon FavreauBrenda Blethyn) to need a wheelchair, doting con Nick Kane (Tamer...

Fantastic Mr. Fox
Read an interview with Anderson here

Harry Brown
I ended up feeling a bit sorry for Michael Caine by the time this hateful vigilante flick set in modern-day London came to a...

Jennifer's Body

Megan Fox wields her sexuality like a blunt object—a sledgehammer in lipgloss—in the new horror-comedy Jennifer’s Body. It’s the film’s one truly witty joke:...

Michael Jackson's This Is It
Just as the 2007 documentary on the Apollo moon landings ‘In the Shadow of the Moon’ struck a blow against all the crackpot theorists who thought Buzz, Neil and the other guy were...

Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian
Noisy and poorly plotted, this unnecessary follow-up has former security guard Stiller running around Washington D.C.’s Smithsonian to save his pals, the magically living exhibits from a museum....

Paranormal Activity

Arriving on a wave of carefully orchestrated viral hype, Paranormal Activity lacks the conceptual elegance of its obvious precursor, The Blair Witch...

Saw VI
Although you should hack off your own arm rather than contribute any more money to the undeservedly long-lived Saw franchise, it must be admitted that this fifth sequel is less bad than the fourth....

Taking Woodstock
Reviewed at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival

Undoubtedly one of Ang Lee's lighter films,...

The Fourth Kind
'Do you honestly believe,' symapthetic psychoanalyst Dr Campos (Elias Koteas) asks his widowed friend and colleague Dr Abbey Tyler (Milla JovovichRicky GervaisJesse Eisenberg), partner him with a bald,...