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Fast & Furious 6

Episode six in this overcooked cars ’n’ girls franchise offers no surprises, though Londoners might feel a frisson of excitement when watching their city being trashed and raced around in by V8 saloons and souped-up ‘Mad Max’-style single seaters. It...

The Hangover Part III

A surprise blockbuster hit, the original ‘Hangover’ took a brotastic scenario then mined it for gross-out comic gold. Success breeds sequels, or in the case of ‘The Hangover II’, the exact same movie reset in Bangkok. This third – and if there is a b...

Star Trek Into Darkness

‘Star Trek Into Darkness’ is a brisk, no-nonsense sci-fi action sequel built around a conflict between the crew of the Starship Enterprise with a slick, slippery new villain, John Harrison (although there’s more to him than meets the eye), who’s play...

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...

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...

All Stars

We’ve had ‘Streetdance’ (twice). Now meet ‘All Stars’, the UK’s latest attempt to ape America’s lucrative tween dance scene (in 3D). Ethan (Theo Stevenson) is a cheeky schoolkid who throws a talent contest to save the local youth club. His own dance...

Wreck-it Ralph

Perhaps the best reason to go and see ‘Wreck-It Ralph’, Disney’s spangly attempt to beat daughter company Pixar at their own high-level game, isn’t in the film itself: rather, it’s ‘Paperman’, the Oscar-nominated seven-minute short that precedes it....

The Moth Diaries

Like butterflies, moths start life as formless, homely little things before becoming mysterious, mesmerising creatures blessed with the gift of flight. It might have benefitted the filmmakers who have adapted Rachel Klein’s 2002 novel about spooky go...

The Big Wedding

The Impossible

Henry and Maria arrive in the tropical paradise of Thailand with their three sons, Lucas, Thomas and Simon. Flocks of terrified birds take to the skies, heralding a wall of water that careens through the complex. Maria and Lucas are carried away by t...

Mariinsky Theatre Live: Swan Lake

Man of Steel

A reboot of the Superman franchise from director Zack Snyder. Just as in ‘The Amazing Spider-Man’, the writers have decided to go back to the beginning with an orgin tale: a child is sent to Earth from the dying planet Krypton. He is adopted by a cou...

Despicable Me 2

Despicable Me 2

Andre Rieu's 2013 Maastricht Concert