Review

Just as scientists might be frowned on for attempting to reanimate the dead, so revisiting old haunts and highs is thought to be A Bad Idea for filmmakers. Reversed momentum reeks of creative stagnation and soft nostalgia, the argument goes; worse still, it can expose the gap between the talent …

It must have been one hell of a pitch. An allegorical fable about climate change devastating a dirt-poor Louisiana bayou? Narrated by a six-year-old philosopher whose drunken daddy Wink loves home-made hooch as much as he loves her? You’d empty a room of movie executives faster than Wink drains a …

By this point, it’s beginning to feel like there are as many Worms games as there are actual worms in existence. In the seventeen years since developer Team17 made people realize that there’s a sizable market out there for homicidal invertebrates, almost twenty entries in the series have been released. …

Liam Neeson was as surprised as anyone when 2008’s Taken turned him from elder statesman into senior-citizen action man. Yet he is certainly getting used to the idea, having followed The A-Team , Unknown and this year’s The Grey with another jaunt for Bryan Mills, the resourceful ex-agent with the …

Shoot-outs, lovers on the lam, a villain with dreadlocks: yes, this hit-and miss comedy sure does want to be True Romance . Where the late Tony Scott’s movie was the real deal, alas, this is the ersatz facsimile that starts well but – like bad guy Bradley Cooper’s behind-bars encounter …

The Almighty Johnsons 2.2 “Frigg Magnet” REVIEW (opens in new tab) Episode 2.2 Writer: James Griffin Director: Simon Bennett THE ONE WHERE Agnetha starts to meddle in the Johnson’s affairs, Loki is up to mischief and Mike has to use his powers to get Axl out of a tight spot …

To paraphrase Douglas Adams, Game Of Thrones is big – vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big. And even two seasons of a very dense TV series are piddling and insignificant next to the sprawling majesty of George RR Martin’s A Song Of Ice And Fire novels; way too much, in fact, to …

Woody Allen, once reckoned the New York director, has in recent years hit the tourist trail, making movies in London (three times), Paris (twice), Barcelona – and now Rome. His last, Midnight In Paris , was unexpectedly charming and his biggest hit ever. Sadly, his latest isn’t one for the …

The shadowy wonderland beneath London’s streets is growing as crowded as the pavement above. From Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere to Dan Simmons’s Drood via Kate Griffin, Ben Aaronovitch, China Miéville and more, the imagined underworld of Britain’s capital occupies a whole subgenre of its own. With his superlative novels The Anubis …

It may present itself as the Polish Goodfellas , but Yuma lacks the conviction of its inspiration. Set after the fall of communism across central and Eastern Europe, it sees poverty-stricken, baby-faced Zyga (Jakub Gierszal) – like Justin Bieber playing the Milky Bar Kid – rise as a gangster at …