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Milla Jovovich from the action film, Resident Evil: Extinction

Film Review: Resident Evil: Extinction

WHILE the blood-thirsty Resident Evil videogame franchise continues to churn out new instalments of the series to the delight of joypad junkies, so we must suffer another sequel to Paul WS Anderson’s 2001 big- screen adaptation. Read

Jamie Foxx in the action thriller film, The Kingdom

Film Review: The Kingdom


FOR A second time, the so-called War on Terror supplies the plot for a Hollywood movie. Unlike the fact-based A Mighty Heart, however, The Kingdom is pure fiction with lots of big bangs and gun battles. Read

Sam Riley as Ian Curtis in the film biopic, Control

Film Review: Control


DURING his lifetime, Ian Curtis, the lead singer of Joy Division, never achieved the success he and the band richly deserved. Read

Jim Sturgess, Evan Rachel Wood in the film, Across The Universe

Film Review: Across The Universe


THE concept of building the foundation of a film around Beatles classics performed by other artists has been tried before – to spectacularly disastrous effect. Read

George Clooney in the film drama, Michael Clayton

Film Review: Michael Clayton


TONY GILROY, screenwriter of The Bourne Identity and its adrenaline-charged sequels, makes his directorial debut with this self- penned legal thriller set in a world where money overrules morality. Read

Jodie Foster from the film thriller, The Brave One

Film Review: The Brave One


The government? The police? Or the people, meeting the intimidation with an greater show of force? Read

Andy Samberg as Rod Kimble in the comedy film, Hot Rod

Film Review: Hot Rod

THERE is something oddly sweet and charming about Hot Rod, a hare-brained comedy pitched somewhere between Talladega Nights and Napoleon Dynamite, that welcomes Saturday Night Live’s Andy Samberg to the big screen. Read

Scene from the film drama, A Mighty Heart, starring Angelina Jolie, Dan Futterman

Film Review: A Mighty Heart


SOME films have to be made, not for commercial purposes but to bring greater understanding of what is happening in the world. A Mighty Heart is one of those films. Read

Kurt Russell in Quentin Tarantino's Grindhouse film, Death Proof

Film Review: Death Proof


IF ANYONE other than Quentin Tarantino had made this film, it would have been a disaster. Read

Image from the film Shoot 'Em Up, starring Clive Owen, Monica Bellucci, Paul Giamatti

Film Review: Shoot 'Em Up


FROM the moment its seemingly indestructible hero brains a gun-toting goon with a raw carrot and snarls "Eat your vegetables!", Shoot ’Em Up delivers an eye-popping orgy of whizzing bullets, exploding scenery and eviscerated flesh. Read

Images from the film western, 3:10 to Yuma, starring Christian Bale and Russell Crowe

Film Review: 3:10 To Yuma


FIFTY years after Glenn Ford and Van Heflin cocked their pistols in the original 3:10 to Yuma, director James Mangold saddles up for a fast- paced remake that reinvigorates the western genre. Read

Image from the film Atonement, starring James McAvoy and Keira Knightley

Film Review: Atonement


SINCE opening the Venice Film Festival, Joe Wright’s immaculately crafted film has been anointed as the first bona fide Oscar contender of the year. Read

Actor Simon Pegg in the romantic comedy film Run, Fat Boy, Run

Film Review: Run, Fat Boy, Run


THE feature film directorial debut of Friends’ David Schwimmer is a spry romantic comedy, which proves nice guys can finish last and still get the girl. Read

Film Review: No Reservations


SCOTT HICKS’S romantic drama serves up a tantalising New York twist on the award- winning German film, Mostly Martha. Read

Image from the comedy film, Knocked Up

Film Review: Knocked Up


KNOCKED Up is a smartly written and executed tale about the mistakes that sometimes happen in the heat of lust. Read

Matt Damon as Jason Bourne in the film thriller, The Bourne Ultimatum

Film Review: The Bourne Ultimatum


THE Bourne Ultimatum is the one in which Jason Bourne, the trained assassin with amnesia, finally discovers who he is. Read

Image from the animated feature film, Surf's Up

Film Review: Surf's Up


ASH BRANNON and Chris Buck’s computer animated mockumentary waddles initially in the webbed foot- steps of Creature Comforts, introducing its loveable, feathered protagonists in a series of hysterical to-camera interviews. Read

Steve Carell from the film comedy, Evan Almighty

Film Review: Evan Almighty


IN THE smash hit 2003 comedy Bruce Almighty, Jim Carrey’s television reporter played God with disastrous consequences, discovering that with great power comes great calamity. Read

Richard Gere from the film drama, The Hoax

Film Review: The Hoax


THE Hoax, from Oscar- nominated director Lasse Hallstrom, puts a fictionalised gloss on the true story of Clifford Irving (Richard Gere), a struggling author whose masterpiece is torn to shreds by his editor. Read

Homer and Bart from the film, The Simpsons Movie

Film Review: The Simpsons Movie


YOU could probably read several chapters of War and Peace while waiting for the final credits in The Simpsons movie to come to an end. Read