AS the current financial crisis attests, money makes the world go round and when the flow of capital is restricted, the ripple effect is felt from one continent to the next.Read
THE Dullest Hour would be a more fitting summation of this special effects-laden thriller, which witnesses a devastating alien attack from the perspective of five young people trapped in Moscow.Read
TELEVISION viewers have never had to wait very long before the next Charles Dickens adaptation comes along and currently we are going through a purple patch.Read
SILENCE is golden and in the case of this gorgeous black and white silent film, the gold will be a clutch of Oscars, probably including the coveted statuette for Best Picture.Read
CHANGE is good. In the three previous Mission: Impossible films, leading man Tom Cruise has been put through his paces by different visionary film-makers – Brian De Palma, John Woo and JJ Abrams – with a distinctive voice and aesthetic.Read
FAMILIARITY breeds nagging comparisons rather than contempt in David Fincher’s English-language remake of Niels Arden Oplev’s acclaimed crime thriller, adapted from the best-seller by Stieg Larsson.Read
THE singing, helium-voiced chipmunks are all at sea in Mike Mitchell’s zany sequel and so too is the script for this third instalment in the inoffensive series.Read
JOLLY green ogre Shrek and his sweetheart Princess Fiona amassed nearly $3b at the global box office before heading into the fairytale sunset at the conclusion of yesteryear’s Shrek Ever After.Read
THREE years after Harold and Kumar escaped Guantanamo Bay, the stoner buddies deck the halls with illegal substances in this loud, brash and outlandish escapade.Read
MARTIN Scorsese swaps the mean streets of New York for the wintry boulevards of 1930s Paris for this Oscar-tipped first foray into family films and the 3D format.Read
IN 1982, John Carpenter directed the science-fiction horror The Thing which imagined a violent battle between humans and a parasitic life form with the ability to clone its prey.Read
FIVE years after the original Happy Feet danced into the affections of audiences worldwide and won the Oscar as Best Animated Feature, director George Miller returns to the frozen wilderness for this pointless sequel.Read
