Olympus Has Fallen was a film both enjoyed and criticised when it was released in 2013. When appreciated for what it truly was – a take-your-brain-out action film with obvious debts owed to Die Hard – it was an entertaining couple of hours full of tense action and fist-pumping moments. Its successor, however, doesn’t even…

The presence of Tom Hiddleston in Ben Wheatley’s latest film is bound to draw in some cinemagoers who would otherwise never have set foot in a screening room showing a film of this nature. It is likely to divide viewers depending on their taste in cinema, but those familiar with what to expect from Wheatley…

The Coen brothers have served up another bizarre comedy that you simply may ‘get’ or not. The film is effectively plotless aside from the basic premise that George Clooney’s pompous actor, Baid Whitlock, is kidnapped – a plot that contributes relatively little to an overall story. The film lives up to its name as a…

From its synopsis alone, How to Be Single is an unfortunate rarity; it is a comedy entirely focused around a group of female protagonists. It follows the quartet of the recently single paralegal, Alice (Dakota Johnson), her new, wild colleague Robin (Rebel Wilson), her older sister Meg (Leslie Mann), and Alison Brie’s Lucy. This set…

Every so often a film comes along which is hard to make your mind up about. It’s not that the film was middling, but that there were moments of absolute brilliance and moments where the energy diffuses into a tepid shallowness. This is the case with Luca Guadagnino’s A Bigger Splash (although the former wins out). The…