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...