Film & TV Reviews

By Preston Wilder   Pixar’s in a bind. The once-revered animation studio has been getting some lukewarm press because its recent offerings (Cars 2, Monsters...

By Preston Wilder   Can you sing that title? It’s not an idle question, nor a bit of DIY karaoke – because if you can...

By Preston Wilder It’s a sad week for comedy in Cyprus. Two examples of the genre opened at the cinema on Friday: one co-stars all...

By Preston Wilder Poor old Vacation: even the timing is wrong, at least in Cyprus. This aggressively dumb, sometimes amusing comedy came out in late...

By Preston Wilder Cool is a tricky concept. Even the word ‘cool’ is tricky. It sounds a bit like ‘callous’ and it sounds a bit...

By Preston Wilder If I’d known there was going to be a sequel to Hitman, I’d have taken notes. The original came and went in...

by Preston Wilder First, a bit of context: in the summer I often like to go ‘Through the Decades’, looking back to previous years ending...

By Preston Wilder Pattern resolution, says Sue Storm (Kate Mara). She’s talking about music, but music – like anything else – is pattern resolution, she...

By Preston Wilder   “Good afternoon, Your Majesty.” “Good afternoon, Minister. I say, do be careful, you nearly stepped on one’s Corgi.” “I beg your...

By Preston Wilder Just when you wonder if Hollywood’s forgotten how to make sleek, intelligent popcorn fare, something like Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation comes...

By Preston Wilder A recent online article by Daniel Carlson (http://moviemezzanine.com/film-criticism-essay/) reckons that the film review as we know it – the “conventional” film review...

By Preston Wilder There’s no such thing as Fate, except what we make for ourselves, says someone in this fifth Terminator movie (the first in...

By Preston Wilder Minions, Minions, Minions … They’re on T-shirts and lunchboxes. Kid-sized Minion totems adorn the entrances of toyshops and fancy-dress emporiums. They single-handedly...

By Preston Wilder North London, 1998. A girl’s 14th birthday party. The time comes to sing ‘happy birthday’, and the fuzzy 90s camcorder takes in...

By Preston Wilder Richie may be hung like a horse, but he knows the score: “I’m not a fireman. I’m a male entertainer”. He’s never...

By Preston Wilder In the year 2065, assuming we’re still around as a species, old-movie fans will be watching Ted 2 on their iWhatevers, chuckling...

By Preston Wilder Fair warning: it’s slow, and it’s set in the West. “Let’s drift,” says Silas (Michael Fassbender) – and they do, and so...

By Preston Wilder Quinn’s trying to sleep, though her mind is troubled. She lies on her right side, facing the camera. It’s a wide shot,...

By Preston Wilder You’re Chris Evans, known to the world as Captain America but longing to play a romantic lead, preferably in something small and...

By Preston Wilder Here’s a gender-balanced double bill at the multiplex this weekend: watch Entourage, the big-screen version of the show about four horny guys...