The Angry Birds Movie (2016) Review

The Angry Birds Movie (2016) Review

Since it was launched in 2009, the Angry Birds game has been downloaded over a billion times. It’s had numerous spin-offs and tie-in merchandise and now it’s got its own movie. If you’ve ever played the game, you’ll know the feeling when you’ve got your shot lined up (or so you think) only for your ..

Transformers: Rise Of The Beasts (2023) Review

Transformers: Rise Of The Beasts (2023) Review

Transformers: Rise Of The Beasts sinks to some pretty familiar lows It doesn’t seem that long ago that Travis Knight restored the long-lost spark to the Transformers franchise with BUMBLEBEE, erasing the excremental excesses of the Michael Bay era and starting the story afresh by paring it back to a very human-centred story featuring shapeshifting ..

I Care A Lot (2021) Review

I Care A Lot (2021) Review

There are elements of AMERICAN BEAUTY and FIGHT CLUB at play in the opening scenes of I CARE A LOT, but this film is concerned with the ugliest side of the American Dream and, unlike Tyler Durden’s polemic pugilism, this movie will leave you wanting to talk about a lot of things. Rosamund Pike stars ..

Pixels (2015) Review

Pixels (2015) Review

There’s a rich vein of affected snobbery running through the critical response to “Pixels”, a nasty invective aimed squarely at Adam Sandler and prejudiciously dismissing anything he’s involved in, with everyone trying to 1up each other in how caustic they can be. I don’t really get the pre-emptive hate: his back catalogue is no better ..