Pharmaceutical drug rep Jamie Randall (Jake Gyllenhaal) who has more notches on his bedpost than most meets his match in Maggie (Anne Hathaway), an alluring free spirit who just so happens to be suffering from early onset Parkinson’s. It’s nice to see Gyllenhaal and Hathaway on screen again, minus the slightly dodgy aging effects used in Brokeback Mountain. Many fans of the two leads wondered why they signed up to do a fluffy romance movie, but Love and Other Drugs is slightly more than the Rom-Com that it is billed as. Sure, Jamie has his heart stolen by a girl as unpredictable as he is, but the fact that she is suffering from a degenerative disease and her fear of getting close to anyone breaks down his barriers, and gives the audience a reason to root for the relationship to work.

When his father dies, Britt Reid (Seth Rogen) decides to change his life, turn his back on his days as a party boy and devote his life to fighting crime. With the help of his friend and mechanic, Kato (Jay Chou), Reid forms his alter ego – The Green Hornet – and sets about cleaning up the streets of LA. Along the way, however, he discovers some unpleasant truths about his father and the media empire that he was running. The Green Hornet has been a pet project of Seth Rogen’s for a long time. Like Scorsese’s beloved Gangs of New York, it kept getting pushed back and pushed back to such a degree that many wondered if it would ever see the light of day. The movie is finally here, but the question is, is it any good?

Since Kevin Flynn disappeared, his son – Sam – is the biggest shareholder in his father’s company; Encom. Unlike his father, however, Sam wants nothing to do with the company other than to turn up at the most inconvenient moment and prank them, kind of like a cyberspace version of the Joker. After he receives a mysterious message, Sam visits the arcade that his father ran, discovers his secret office and – eventually – the world beyond it. First things first, Tron: Legacy looks amazing, it could even be said that it looks better than Avatar (there are many issues with Avatar, but it is safe to say that it looked great). The world of the Grid is so expertly and wonderfully realised that there is never any doubt in the audiences’ mind that this is a real world. Sam is subjected to savage life or death ‘games’ in order … There’s more →

In 1940, seven prisoners escape a Siberian prison and begin the long walk to freedom with little food and even fewer supplies. Although they know that the journey across some of the world’s most challenging terrain will be fraught with danger, they would rather take the chance and die free men than as Stalin’s prisoners. The Way Back is based on Slavomir Rawicz’s memoir of the same name, and it is obvious that the film means a lot to director, Peter Weir. The film is painstakingly detailed, from the bark masks the men use to protect themselves from snow, down to the terrain and costumes. The problem is that Weir may be too close to the subject matter to make decisions to strengthen the movie. Yes, there are many scenes during which the audience may feel as though they are more than casual observers – the weather depicted in the … There’s more →

Aliens land in Los Angeles, and begin sucking people into their ships via a very pretty blue light. Over the course of the first two days of the invasion, a group of people must find a way to survive. There are some of us who appreciate a movie that’s so bad, it’s good. Roadhouse and M:I-2 are two so-bad-they’re-good movies that comes to mind. Unfortunately, Skyline does not fall into this category. First of all, Skyline starts with a flashback. This could be just me, but flashbacks are now a little too reminiscent of the dreadful TV show The Event for this plot device to be absorbing. From here, the story goes from bad to worse as it follows every cliché in the book. Elaine (Scottie Thompson) is pregnant, her boyfriend Jared (Eric Balfour) is injured and hiding it, Terry (Donald Faison) is having an affair with his assistant and … There’s more →

David Michod’s directorial debut – Animal Kingom – won the World Cinema Dramatic Grand Jury Prize at Sundance this year, and was one of the most popular films of the festival. Animal Kingdom is a dark crime thriller, based around a dysfunctional Australian family. When his mother dies of a heroin overdose, 17-year-old Josh (James Frencheville) is taken in by his grandmother and uncles. The family have been estranged for many years; Josh’s mother kept him away from them because she was afraid of their involvement with crime. Josh’s uncles, Baz, Craig and Pope, are known armed robbers and the police are staking out the family home. While all seems to be holding together at first, as Josh says, “all crooks come undone”, and when things eventually begin to unravel they do so very quickly.

Marni Olivia Olsen (Kristen Bell) discovers that her brother is about to marry the woman who made her high school years hell. In the weekend leading up to their wedding, Marni does everything she can to try and get an apology from her ex-nemesis Joanne (Odette Yustman), without much luck. Director Andy Fickman may be best remembered for his 2006 film, She’s the Man… Or 2009s Race to With Mountain… Ok, so neither film is particularly memorable, and it might be best to forget you ever heard about You Again. The idea of the film is a very simple one; Marni’s family all love Joanne, and have no idea that the two girls had such a fraught relationship in high school. In fact, Joanne doesn’t seem to remember either. In a little twist of fate, it turns out that Joanne’s aunt Mona (Sigourney Weaver) and Marni’s mum Gail (Jamie Lee … There’s more →