Dan Brightmore

It’s taken a while, but the first ever superhero film with both a female protagonist and director is an absolute delight

Brad Pitt is tank captain ‘Wardaddy’ in David Training Day Ayer’s visceral and harrowing WWII drama. The Fury of the title is a Sherman tank deployed behind enemy lines as the Allies push on through Germany in April 1945. We experience the ambushes, bone-snapping firefights and the shock and gore of man to man combat […]

The creepy doll from 2012 hit horror flick The Conjuring has got its own spin-off. In James Wan’s original film she appeared in a macabre museum of horrors at the home of 1970s paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren. In this prequel, we meet a young couple when they are expecting a baby. They complete […]

Denzel Washington turns ruthless vigilante starring as ex-CIA agent Robert McCall in director Antoine ‘Training Day‘ Fuqua’s big screen reboot of the ’80s TV show. We meet McCall living a quiet life working in a hardware superstore after faking his own death to get away from the violence and betrayal of his former career as […]

Aiming to reignite the on-screen spark they shared in 2011’s Bad Teacher, Cameron Diaz and Jason Segel play thirty-something couple Annie and Jay. They decide to spice up their love life by making a sex tape, on an iPad. Zany huh? But thanks to a sloppy plot device that finds the couple gifting Apple tablets […]

It’s nearly 20 years since storm chasing disaster flick Twister hit cinemas but finally, for raw eye of the storm action, it’s been bettered by studio Warner Bros who also produced George Clooney vehicle The Perfect Storm. Storms… Hollywood loves ’em. In cheesy disaster movie fashion we get to know the lives of those about […]

Alarm bells tend to go off when press aren’t invited to see a film before it gets released. In this case it’s not because the film is, as James Buckley’s character Jay might say, “wank”, but an attempt to ramp the hype. After The Inbetweeners Movie took over £40m at the box office it’s critic-proof […]

The Scandinavian crime wave continues to invade our screens… Taking its title from an impoverished neighbourhood in Copenhagen Michael Noer’s film is a dark rites of passage tale following two teenaged brothers on the Danish capital’s mean streets. Casper and Andy (played by real life siblings Gustav and Oscar Dyekjaer Giese – cast via Facebook) […]

Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson is the demigod warrior Hercules in a swords and sandals action fest from director Brett Ratner (X Men: The Last Stand) that revels in ridiculousness. Bending its epic source material – to create a Rambo of the ancient realm – this Hercules is a mythical mercenary for hire. Packed with battle […]