TRADITIONAL Second World War thrillers meet the superhero era head on in Captain America – and the result is the first must-see blockbuster of the summer.Read
I’M NO apologist for the dumbing down of Hollywood and the fact that it seems to be having an increasingly poor year after The King’s Speech, Black Swan, The Fighter and True Grit gave us such an early rush of blood to the head.Read
AS EVERYONE from the police to the government and executives at News International are discovering, there comes a point when the world finally says ‘‘enough’s enough’’.Read
AUTHOR JK Rowling hadn’t even written the last three books in her planned seven-part series when the first Harry Potter movie was leaving Kings Cross platform 9¾ in November, 2001.Read
HOLLYWOOD has been preoccupied this year with delivering one instantly forgettable movie after another, particularly in the shallow comic book and below-the-belt comedy genres.Read
IT WILL be 20 years next June since the charismatic Blade Runner and Guinness ads star Rutger Hauer threw me out of an interview with him at the now demolished MGM Arcadian cinema.Read
THOUSANDS of Harry Potter lovers are set to burn the midnight oil tonight (THU 14) when the eighth and final movie in the franchise, The Deathly Hallows – Part 2 (12A) has its first public screenings from midnight.Read
KEEPING our inquisitive children safe online is one of the greatest challenges of the 21st century – but it’s not a subject which Hollywood has tried to challenge head on. Until now.Read
THE strangest 18-certificate cinematic experience I’ve ever had was in the early 90s when a punk woman with tattoos and chains was preparing to feed her nine-month-old baby at the start of a screening of the seminal 1986 horror movie Henry: Portrait Of A Serial Killer.Read
THAT the eighth and final Harry Potter movie should end where the series began on Platform 9¾ back in 2001 will not surprise any fans of the books.Read
