Film Review

By Preston Wilder Let’s be honest: I despised Woman in Gold but I still feel obliged to recommend it, or at least give the two-star

By Preston Wilder Near the end of Avengers: Age of Ultron, two machines – Ultron himself, and a kind of super-robot known only as ‘The

By Alexia Evripidou Get Hard offers an interesting storyline of wrongly convicted investment banker James King (Will Ferrell), who is found guilty of fraud and

By Alexia Evripidou The Age of Adaline was an enjoyable surprise. Over the years, the cynic in me has grown tired of formulaic love stories.

By Preston Wilder Where does Cyprus Film Days fit into the local filmgoing calendar? Its importance is undeniable. It’s our only world-class film festival, showing

By Preston Wilder Anyone who watched the trailer for Child 44 should be told that the trailer lies, or at least is misleading. (Yeah I

By Preston Wilder It’s amazing how bland Annie is – even bearing in mind it’s a ‘family film’, even bearing in mind that it was

By Preston Wilder “It’s never goodbye,” says someone at the very end of Fast & Furious 7 (or just Furious 7, as the marketing has

By Preston Wilder Somewhere in Hollywood, a team of so-called creatives are making a film based on market research, algorithms and screenwriting manuals. Chappie is

By Preston Wilder It’s Dev Patel week at the multiplex! The brash, jug-eared Indian-English actor creates new life out of battered old parts in Chappie

By Preston Wilder Cartoons have a problem: they’re expensive to make, yet they’re aimed at kids – a large but limited audience. Making something that’ll

By Preston Wilder I’ve discovered some irrational things about myself. When it comes to messianic teen Amazons in dystopian futures, I prefer Tris in the

By Preston Wilder Abel Morales (Oscar Isaac) has some problems. Someone is hijacking the trucks in his fuel-distribution business, beating up the drivers and taking

By Preston Wilder Going in, I wondered why Disney were making a new live-action version of Cinderella, one of the most archetypal (i.e. over-familiar) stories

By Preston Wilder Cake is what I’d rather be having than watching Cake, Jennifer Aniston’s transparent bid for serious-actress status and hopefully an Oscar nomination

By Preston Wilder Keanu Reeves is John Wick, the world’s greatest hitman. His hair is lank, his face artfully stubbled. He sleeps in a room

By Preston Wilder Nicky (Will Smith) has it all figured out. “Get their focus,” he instructs Jess (Margot Robbie), “take whatever you want”. Holding their

By Preston Wilder What do you get when a submarine drama also wants to be a heist movie, a Full Monty riff and a cry

By Preston Wilder Lily Collins is Rosie. Lily Collins is delightful. She’s fresh-faced and wide-eyed, and made a very winning Snow White in Mirror, Mirror.

By Preston Wilder The first half-hour of American Sniper is a stunning demonstration of movies’ power to make us identify with a total stranger, hence