So, The Interview is not quite Team America as far as controversy goes. The uproar surrounding the film appears a little blown out of proportion after watching it. Yes, there are the odd questionable moments (there's a Hitler comparison in the opening minute) and you wouldn't want it to be about you but it's far more sympathetic, realistic (kind of) and less stereotypical than Team America. James Franco and Seth Rogen are the drivers of the movie and, like everything they've

Kingsman: The Secret Service could well be the most fun you'll have at the cinema this year. It could even go down as 2015's Guardians of the Galaxy. Matthew Vaughn here takes apart the spy genre and remoulds it in his own image, much as he did with the brilliant Kick-Ass and its reworking of the superhero genre. He again casts big name actors (Michael Caine, Samuel L. Jackson and Mark Strong) in smaller roles to his new lead man Taron Egerton (whose career will surely now ta

So you know exactly what you're going to get with Taken 3 (or Tak3n, seriously?!) and the fact that this delivers exactly what you are now picturing is either good or bad depending on how much you like the previous films in the series and generic actioners in general. It's fast paced, intense stuff with Liam Neeson again menacing (and afraid of running) and Megan Grace once again put through the mill (to such an extent that a plane crash can't phase her.) Plot holes galore an

So one I missed from last year and Fury is unlucky that it didn't make it into the Top 10 of 2014. A harrowing and brutally realistic tale of World War Two this is up there with any other war film you care to throw at it. There's no patriotism, heroism, American flags or grandstanding battles here just a small tank team completing skirmishes in the German countryside. Brad Pitt's Wardaddy can arguably be placed alongside the SS officers he takes such great delight in killing

If we get 10 better movies than Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue Of Ignorance) this year then it'll be an incredible 2015 for movie fans. A triumph for artistic cinema this tells the story of a former A-List superhero-playing movie star trying to restore critical credibility by directing his own Broadway play. The fact that most of the film's stars like Michael Keaton, Edward Norton and Emma Stone have had roles in superhero blockbusters being particularly noteworthy. Expert

Exodus: Gods and Kings is this year's biblical epic following on from Darren Aronofsky's Noah in 2014. Thankfully, Ridley Scott chooses to focus on delivering a realistic depiction of how the tale could have played out rather than over-fantasise like Aronofsky. It's two and a half hour run time moves surprisingly quickly with great battle scenes, a rags to riches tale played perfectly by Christian Bale as Moses (the man can do no wrong) and an incredible depiction of the famo

So we kick off 2015's film reviews with the latest Stephen Hawking biopic: The Theory Of Everything. Apparently, this is almost the twin brother of Benedict Cumberbatch's Hawking TV movie so I guess if you've seen that you probably don't need to worry with this. If you're looking to gain some more knowledge on this incredible figure then the film certainly highlights some interesting biographical points but there's not nearly enough science here to make sense of Hawking's aca

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies is the weakest of the Hobbit movies thus far. That's not too much of a bad thing as the others were five star epics which built on the legacy Peter Jackson created with the Lord of the Rings, but this just falls a little short. A large part of this is down to the lack of source material for this movie (Tolkien's one line on the battle not quite sufficient enough for a two and a half hour film) and this is noticeable compared with the

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The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 and the dreaded 'splitting the last book into two movies to make a bit more dollar' scenario. Yes, that's a cynical viewpoint and, yes, it does mean fans aren't annoyed at any content left out of the final movie but, actually, Mockingjay is the book which needs the least amount of time in this series. I would much rather this detail was thrown into the first movie as there's quite a lot of scenes which feel like they've been promoted from

The Drop is yet another gritty, ambiguously set, grey weather, American gangster movie. To be honest, you could probably end the review there and know whether it's for you or not. Better than Walk Among The Tombstones but not as good as Drive, this is an enjoyable noir with a nicely developing plot and strong character performances. Tom Hardy is always incredible and keeps that up here, James Gandolfini is, classically, the perfect blend of loveable and violent in his final p

Interstellar is one of the year's most anticipated. Christopher Nolan has created such a reputation that the run up to this has eclipsed some of the massive, big hitting, traditional blockbusters in terms of hype. This is very much not a traditional blockbuster. Almost completely devoid of action and at a hefty three hours Nolan takes his classic 'turning-fantasy-into-reality' approach. What is effectively a post-apocalyptic, 2001-esque, 'humans living in space' movie is expl