Narrated by Tobey Maguire’s disabused Nick Carraway, director Baz Luhrmann’s adaptation of The Great Gatsby tells the tale of New York high society in the roaring twenties through the story of Jay Gatsby (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his relationship with Daisy Buchanan (Carey Mulligan). Dazzled by the lush jazz age trailers, with their promisingly modern soundtrack, I’ve had my fingers crossed that this would turn out to be a grown up version of Luhrmann’s Romeo + Juliet.

So perhaps it’s my…

No, that’s not deja vu, we’ve already been here before thanks to Ashton Kutcher and Natalie Portman in ‘No Strings Attached’, released earlier this year. The fact that ‘Strings’ relied largely on Kutcher’s charm and Portman’s comedic chops probably tells you everything you need to know about that earlier effort.

So why bother with a retread that swaps Portman for her predatory Black Swan nemesis Mila Kunis, and Kutcher for former boyband member Justin Timberlake? In a nutshell, the three…

Critics have been desperately prostrating themselves before The Master, Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest, greatest offering - which means it’s time for my annual bout of extreme contrariness. The Master has had a host of hyperbolic adjectives - brilliant, poetic, spectacular and so on - lavished upon it. Sadly for us mere mortals (the ones who still have to fork out money and leisure time for a trip to the cinema), this is true in much the same way that a…

It’s been four years since writer-director Martin McDonagh first whipped up his special blend of brutality and humour courtesy of In Bruges, simultaneously halting a depressingly average patch in Colin Farrell’s CV.

McDonagh’s latest wheeze repeats the feat, once more bringing the shock and humour while preventing Farrell’s slide down Hollywood’s Rolodexes. Seven Psychopaths defies neat plot summary, beyond the fact that its overlapping, intertwining and occasionally disconnected storylines featuring (slightly more than) seven psychopaths are all triggered by the…