A Beautiful Mind: Pixar’s ‘Inside Out’ Is An Inspirational Triumph
Melissa McCarthy, it emerged with last summer’s horrifically crude but shamefully unfunny vanity project Tammy, has no range. This fact is compounded even further in Spy, a film with substantially more merit…
Until a few months before its release, Aloha was known only as Untitled Cameron Crowe Project. It’s not the first time in his career that Crowe has struggled to name a project, but his endless indecision in this case symbolises the complete…
It takes a special kind of director to take the charisma out of Chris Pratt, the fun out of Spielberg and the magic out of dinosaurs, yet Colin Trevorrow of Safety Not Guaranteed…
Pitch Perfect 2 features an almost entirely female ensemble cast, is directed by a woman (Elizabeth Banks), is aimed at a largely female audience and features a strong theme of “Girl Power!”, yet the most feminist film released in…
Roland Emmerich’s two great skills as a maker of big-budget disaster epics: his fondness for showing the global, rather than simply local, effects of crisis and horror, and his ability to convey genuine (be it hammily-acted) emotional…
