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This was the last of Hammer’s Frankenstein films, a return to the original franchise and star Peter Cushing following 1970’s ill-advised re-boot ... Read more »

Set ten years after 2011’s Rise of the Planet of the Apes, a global pandemic has all but wiped out humanity, and a San Francisco colony, led by Gary Ol... Read more »

There’s nothing quite so chilling in cinema as mundane violence; violence matched for shock only by the perpetrators – and frame – demonstr... Read more »

Director Adam Wingard and writer Simon Barrett turn their gaze on the creepy stranger sub-genre after deconstructing the slasher movie in last year’s Y... Read more »

Clint Eastwood brings his typically fat-free directorial style to this biopic of Navy SEAL sniper Chris Kyle. In many ways, his simplicity of approach and fo... Read more »

In writer-director Theodore Melfi’s debut feature, Bill Murray turns back to the salty, misanthropic persona with which he made his name; his titular c... Read more »

There are a number of reasons why EL James’ phenomenally successful Fifty Shades of Grey is perfect for a cinematic conversion. Quite aside from the ob... Read more »

Mark Wahlberg sheds the pounds and dusts off his best give-me-awards face to play Jim Bennett, a silver-spooned and self-destructive English professor whose ... Read more »

The UK’s favourite splatter institution returned to its second home of the GFT for Glasgow Film Festival’s final weekend, and delivered a solid l... Read more »

Writer-director Ingo Haeb observes his film's eponymous character in much the same way as she views the world and the people around her: distant, chilly, alm... Read more »

Richard Ayoade, of Garth Marenghi's Darkplace and The IT Crowd fame, has constructed a quirky, witty and heartfelt debut with Submarine. Based on the novel b... Read more »

  Prison drama Ghosted sees sinister head-honcho jailbird Clay (Craig Parkinson) and quiet, just-want-to-do-my-time-guv con Jack (John Lynch) vie for t... Read more »

A refreshingly unsentimental account of a teenager dealing with terminal cancer, Death of a Superhero sees Donald (Thomas Brodie-Sangster, in an excellent tu... Read more »

Sean Durkin’s astonishingly assured debut as writer/director is a haunting meditation on identity, manipulation and abuse. Martha (Olsen), long-since a... Read more »

Red Dog, based on Nancy Gillespie’s book of the same name charting the impact of a legendary mutt on the lives of assorted roughnecks in a Western Aust... Read more »

Will Ferrell is back with this very odd, and quite likable, parody of overwrought Mexican soap operas. Ferrell plays Armando, the austere and upright son of ... Read more »

Luis Prieto’s sanitised update of Nic Refn’s 1996 debut apes virtually everything in the original, but unfortunately forgot all the verve and urg... Read more »

The success of Headhunters suggested an inevitability to Jo Nesbø’s canon being mined for more dark tales to turn into modestly budgeted, easy t... Read more »

Witty, urbane and with a dark streak a mile wide, 40-year-old Brighton-based writer-director Ben Wheatley has made an auspicious start to his filmmaking care... Read more »

While the brutal intimacy of Derek Cianfrance’s Blue Valentine owed a great deal to Cassavetes, this epic follow-up of family, fate and corruption... Read more »

Jonathan Levine seems so seduced by the smart premise of his lazy Warm Bodies – tortured hipster zombie starts romance with live and kic... Read more »

The seventh feature from director Mathieu Kassovitz, Rebellion sees the maker of La Haine return to more pointedly political ground following English languag... Read more »

The Beats have had a resurgence of late; Hollywood presumably believes their vibrant defiance can strike a chord with this century’s more indolent... Read more »

The last thing one might expect from a bombastic Hollywood Biblical epic would be religious and theological ambiguity, the bigwigs of Tinseltown being notori... Read more »

The narrative arc of Pompeii was always going to have to be special to maintain an audience’s attention, given that all the characters involved face ce... Read more »

“You just never take it for granted, and I’m sure this’ll be the last time,” says Paul Laverty a couple of days before escaping Auld ... Read more »

A malevolent killer mirror runs amok in suburbanites’ psyches in writer-director Mike Flanagan’s very silly but really quite effective horror. Ka... Read more »

Philip Seymour Hoffman dominates as German spy-master Gunther Bachmann in Anton Corbijn’s old-school espionage yarn, based on John le Carré&rsqu... Read more »

Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy make their cinematic debut in James Gunn’s nutso, wilfully incoherent and very, very funny romp through space an... Read more »

In this taught, seductively understated thriller, Tom Hardy plays innocent lug Bob, bartender in the Brooklyn tavern of the slightly more sinister if no... Read more »