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Review: The Dictator May 17 2012

SACHA Baron Cohen atones for the sins of Bruno with this gleefully bad taste fish-out-of-water comedy, which kicks sand in the eye of political correctness.Read

Review: The Raid May 17 2012

ROOKIE cop Rama (Iko Uwais) is part of an ill-prepared SWAT team charged with infiltrating a 15-storey apartment block, which doubles as the headquarters of notorious drug lord Tama (Ray Sahetapy) and his sadistic henchmen.Read

Review: 2 Days in New York May 17 2012

NEUROTIC artist Marion (Julie Delpy) is happily ensconced in New York with radio DJ Mingus (Chris Rock) and her young son Lulu (Owen Shipman), who affectionately refers to the new beau as “fake daddy“.Read

Review: How I Spent My Summer Vacation May 10 2012

PUNCH & Judy, donkey rides, sandcastles and candy floss are in short supply in Adrian Grunberg's thriller.Read

Review: Jeff, Who Lives at Home May 10 2012

FILM-MAKING brothers Jay and Mark Duplass, two key exponents of the low-budget mumblecore movement, err dangerously close to the mainstream with this quirky comedy. Read

Review: Dark Shadows May 10 2012

QUIXOTIC director Tim Burton sealed his creative marriage to Johnny Depp more 20 years ago with Edward Scissorhands.Read

Review: Safe May 04 2012

AS the title of this testosterone-fuelled game of cat and mouse intimates, we’re in familiar territory here with hard man Jason Statham.Read

Review: Beauty and the Beast May 03 2012

MORE than 20 years after Beauty and the Beast became the first animated feature to contest the Oscar for Best Picture, Disney’s tale returns to multiplexes in a glorious new 3D print.Read

Review: American Pie - Reunion May 03 2012

THERE is a moment in the fourth and hopefully final slice of the American Pie series when lovable Jim Levenstein (Jason Biggs) loses his patience with sex-obsessed man-child Stifler (Seann William Scott) and laments: “You’re so trapped in the past.Read

Review: Avengers Assemble Apr 26 2012

MORE is less in Avengers Assemble, the special effects-laden amalgamation of four Marvel Comics franchises.Read

Review: Albert Nobbs Apr 26 2012

BEHIND every great man, there is supposedly a great woman. Some of the finest works of literature take this notion at face value, concealing the sex of resourceful heroines behind a manly garb.Read

Review: Salmon Fishing in the Yemen Apr 19 2012

A SOCIALLY awkward fisheries expert reels in a spirited soul-mate in Lasse Hallstrom’s unabashedly feel-good confection, based on the novel by Northumberland author Paul Torday.Read

Review: Lockout Apr 19 2012

GUY Pearce bulks up and wedges his tongue firmly in cheek for this brawny, testosterone-fuelled action romp that follows a similar plot to Escape From New York.Read

Review: Gone Apr 19 2012

LITTERED with enough red herrings to exceed European fishing quotas, Gone is a serpentine thriller about an emotionally scarred woman who is doubted by everyone around her.Read

Review: Battleship Apr 12 2012

BATTLESHIP, the children's board game of naval warfare, is brilliantly simple: hunt and sink your opponent's ships of varying classes within a 10x10 grid.Read

Review: The Cold Light of Day Apr 12 2012

BUSINESS consultant Will Shaw (Henry Cavill) joins his father Martin (Bruce Willis), mother Laurie (Caroline Goodall), brother Josh (Rafi Gavron) and his girlfriend Dara (Emma Hamilton) on board the family yacht in Spain the very same week that his company is threatened with bankruptcy.Read

Review: The Cabin in the Woods Apr 12 2012

BOOKISH college student Dana (Kristen Connolly) is looking forward to a jaunt into the great outdoors with blonde friend Jules (Anna Hutchison) and her jock boyfriend Curt (Chris Hemsworth), and slacker Marty (Fran Kranz).Read

Review: Headhunters Apr 05 2012

ROGER Brown (Aksel Hennie) is a corporate headhunter, who places great stock in his reputation.Read

Review: Titanic 3D Apr 05 2012

JAMES Cameron’s mega-budget love story set aboard the doomed ocean liner was a phenomenon.Read

Review: Mirror Mirror Apr 05 2012

ONCE upon a time... The King (Sean Bean) is presumed dead so his second wife, The Queen seizes the throne and turns her teenage stepdaughter Snow White (Lily Collins) into a recluse. Read