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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...

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...

The Iceman

A distinctly average entry in the persistent 1970s mafia movie sub-genre (see ‘Goodfellas’, ‘Donnie Brasco’, ‘American Gangster’), ‘The Iceman’ comes packed with clichés: washed-out colours, rainy streets, distracting facial hair, tan leather jackets...

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 Last Exorcism: Part II

Abandoning the faux-documentary style of the frightening but frustrating original, Ed Gass-Donnelly's low-key sequel picks up the supernatural story where it left off. His naturalistic approach, showing everything from the psychically distorted point...

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...

Song for Marion

A marvellously insightful portrait of male emotional reticence lurks within an otherwise doggedly conventional feelgood drama in this change of pace for writer-director Paul Andrew Williams (‘London to Brighton’, ‘Cherry Tree Lane’). He puts two cash...

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...

Royal Opera House: Gloriana

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...

Munch 150

Summer in February

When British actors play arty-boho types, it almost always looks try-hard. Trouble is, we’ve seen it all before, the skinny dipping and the girls in fishermen’s jumpers with scarves knotted in their hair. This wobbly period drama is based on events b...

Despicable Me 2

Despicable Me 2

Sammy's Great Escape

Kids’ animation doesn’t come more basic than this second undersea outing for Sammy the Turtle. The opening song simply stops mid-riff as it cuts to grandad Sammy herding his family’s hatchlings from beach to briny. Since no wildlife cartoon is comple...