Film Review

By Preston Wilder Nick (Ben Affleck) and Amy (Rosamund Pike) know exactly what kind of couple they are – and what kind of couple they

By Preston Wilder T.S. Spivet’s mum (Helena Bonham Carter) has her issues, including an obsession with bugs that amounts to neglect of her family, but

By Preston Wilder They had it, and they threw it all away. That’s the most frustrating thing about The Equalizer, maybe not a terrible film

By Preston Wilder If Chef were a meal, it’d be something classy-looking but essentially familiar – a tuna steak, or a filet mignon – followed

By Preston Wilder Everyone needs to see Boyhood. Any review must begin by acknowledging the once-in-a-lifetime nature of this totally unique movie. Seeing a person

By Preston Wilder Trust a critic to discuss trashy flicks based on who directed them. I liked Into the Storm [see opposite page] more than

By Preston Wilder What a difference 18 years makes. Back in 1996, Twister featured people so insane that they actually chose to get close, dangerously

By Preston Wilder Certain myths persist when it comes to well-known movies. The plot of Inception is impossible to follow. The photography in Lord of

By Preston Wilder Gamora (Zoe Saldana) isn’t happy: “I’m going to die,” she laments, “surrounded by the biggest idiots in the galaxy.” This is harsh,

By Preston Wilder   Splinter (a giant rat, for the uninitiated) thinks back to the old days, when the Turtles were kids: “Like all children,

By Preston Wilder   The second shot of Magic in the Moonlight is surprising. It begins on a close-up of an elephant’s eye, then the

By Preston Wilder It’s a good week for has-beens. Ageing action heroes take down an ageing supervillain in the utterly expendable Expendables 3, while back

By Preston Wilder A billion years of life. The human condition in general (we’re “more concerned with having than being”). Attaining spiritual nirvana. Becoming one

by Preston Wilder How to describe Oculus? Maybe as one of the rare films whose director is also its editor –  which may explain why

by Preston Wilder Comedy and horror (and tearjerkers, but they’re out of fashion now) may be the trickiest genres to review, just because they’re so

By Preston Wilder Let the record show that The Love Punch, an unapologetically lame comedy starring Pierce Brosnan and Emma Thompson, bases one of its

By Preston Wilder Eddie Murphy’s ruined it for me slightly, making it hard to hear the name of a certain Greek demigod without flashbacks to

By Preston Wilder I’ve been doing this for years, ‘this’ being a recap of the films released in Cyprus over the past 12 months –

By Alexia Evripidou Devoid of visual magic and any real heartfelt emotion, Legends of Oz: Dorothy’s Return is a cheap looking and thoroughly disappointing musical

By Alexia Evripidou Technically, visually and in terms of narrative, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes is most certainly a first-rate picture. The fear