Odeon Dundee

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...

After Earth

What’s the must-have gift for Hollywood’s rich kids this year? A pony? A Ferrari? How about the lead role in a major summer blockbuster conceived, produced by and starring your megastar dad? ‘After Earth’ sees Will Smith as the improbably named Cyphe...

Despicable Me 2

Despicable Me 2

Epic

Can the tiny warrior Leafmen protect their queen and her magical rosebud, which will one day give them a future monarch? Or is the rosebud’s flowering threatened by the invasion of a dark force? Welcome to ‘Epic’, a Freudian lineage anxiety drama for...

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 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...

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...

A Haunted House

You know a fright-flick craze is in danger of running its course when comedian Marlon Wayans, this film’s star, co-writer and producer, comes along to broadly, belatedly spoof it. Wayans takes on the ‘found-footage’ genre, playing a camera-carrying d...

Man of Steel

It’s a cliché followed by a yawn when the makers of comic-book movies boast about how ‘real’ and ‘psychological’ their stories are. Yes, we know, Spider-Man and Batman were just troubled sons with daddy issues. But it’s harder to make those claims fo...

ParaNorman

An entire generation of children may grow up to be zombie-obsessed, black-clad emo kids as a result of watching ‘ParaNorman’, the spooky second stop-motion animation from Laika, the American studio that gave us 2009’s ‘Coraline’. This gem is just as...

Springsteen & I

If you ever wanted proof of how totally devoted fans are to The Boss, here it is: a feature-length documentary compiled purely of fan-submitted footage. The faithful have suppled videos, photos and audio recordings, compiled by director Baillie Walsh...

Bula Quo!

Admission

Tina Fey is done with ‘30 Rock’, yet finding a niche on the big screen might be harder than she realises – especially if she continues to lunge at awkward comedy-dramas like ‘Baby Mama’ and this, another half-success spoiled by an odd tone. Portia (F...

The Purge

America, 2022. Violent crime and unemployment have been eradicated since the introduction of the annual Purge Night: a 12-hour spree of cathartic anarchy and violence during which the well-armed rich emerge from the their gated communities to vent th...

Snitch

This crime drama falls frustratingly short of striking. The premise, while based on a true story, is beyond ludicrous – a decent dad (Dwayne Johnson) turns drug trafficker and informant to reduce his college-bound son’s maximum jail sentence – but th...

The Wolverine

World War Z

So here it is: Brad Pitt v zombies. The traditionally low-budget zombie genre has been treated to a blowout $200 million blockbuster makeover. The result looks less like a horror flick and more like a thinking man’s action-thriller – the ‘Newsnight’...