Spider-Man: Homecoming (3D) ****
Along with some explosive action set-pieces, the well-crafted Homecoming is one of the best Spider-Man films yet, ending with one of the best lines of any film in a long time.
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Spotlight *****
It is a screen triumph of horrific enveloping and seismic proportions and well worth catching.
RoboCop ****
Reboots are often cynically dismissed before sampling the new deal, and 2014’s RoboCop is one such example. However, director José Padilha’s film takes the bare bones of the 1987 original, starring Peter Weller in the title role, and makes the sense of sci-fi future prediction into a possible parallel ‘present day’ reality. With the advancement …
The Other Guys – 4*
It starts in school. If you’re not one of the popular guys, you long to be. Become one of them, and it’s tough staying at the top. Saturday Night Live writer Adam McKay’s gargantuan giggle fest of deadpan lunatic proportions, The Other Guys, takes this concept and places it bang-slap in cop territory, where the …
Toy Story 3D – 5*
Sequels are notoriously tricky things to pull off – trilogies even harder. The franchise not only has to be a strong and established one, but you have to ensure return fans and make them believe that they’ll be missing out on the ‘next chapter in the story’, if they don’t catch the new installment. This …