Jon Amiel’s highly-stylized bio-pic of Charles Darwin is a rather staid affair, but does avoid the pitfalls of most period dramas. In a brilliant way, it feels claustrophobic and stuffy: exactly like a museum. That’s quite an achievement for a film! With its supernatural overtones and but less-than-full-blooded discussion of science versus theology, it leaves […]

What is there to say about David Slade’s entry into the Twilight world? Eclipse won’t convert anybody or change their minds. He’s done vampires before in 30 Days of Night but they were pure killing machines and there was plenty of the red stuff to show it was a proper horror film. Here we are […]

Joseph Kosinski’s follow up to the 1982 cult classic Tron is an electro-gothic sci-fi adventure continuing the story of videogame and software designer Kevin Flynn (Jeff Bridges). Tron: Legacy largely takes place in a ‘bio-digital’ world of wonder where a young man – Sam Flynn (Garrett Hedlund) – searches for his missing father who disappeared […]