Empire High Wycombe

The Dark Knight

Nolan’s sequel to 2005’s Batman Begins internalizes the schism between serious aims and summer-movie duties. The problem isn’t the admittedly jaw-dropping Sturm...

Get Smart

Big-screen version of the hit 1960s comedy about an accident-prone spy called Max Smart. The film version sees Smart, who works for the secretive government agency CONTROL, battling the...

Hellboy II: The Golden Army

Guillermo del Toro’s Fabergé egg of a fairytale is not so much a sequel as a fusion of the fabulist imagination of...

Journey to the Centre of the Earth

Three dimensions are one too many for this flat tale of geological grandiosity starring good-natured B-movie staple Brendan FraserGuy RitchieWill Ferrell is 41. Assessing his emotional age from comedy to comedy is also fairly easy:...

The Duchess

If you’ve seen the posters for ‘The Duchess’, you’ll know that they recall the marital woes of another Spencer, Princess Diana, born two centuries after Georgiana (David Gordon Green has a keen eye for landscapes and a...

WALL-E

Lonely cleaning robot Wall-e is the last sentient being on Planet Earth, now an intergalactic waste disposal site. But one night a gleaming ship appears, whisking Wall-e away on a dizzying...

Wild Child

‘That’s the final straw, you are going to England!’ belts out Malibu dad Aidan Quinn as he sends his brat daughter