Riddick continues the adventures of Vin Diesel’s stoic character as he survives yet more attempts on his life using tactics and a very gravelly voice.
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For a director whose movies rake in billions of dollars, Michael Bay is pretty decisive among film fans. His handling of the Transformers franchise has infuriated some, bored others, and entertained many judging by the box office. No matter what kind of story he’s tackled he hasn’t shown restraint and doesn’t seem to want to let up on that front, with Pain & Gain, which for me is Bay’s best film in a long while, maybe ever.
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Neill Blomkamp sends impoverished Matt Damon up to the orbiting artificial utopia of Elysium in this cyberpunk action film.

Read my review here.

Hugh Jackman wears the character of Wolverine like a comfortable coat and slashes his way into another convoluted entry of the X-Men franchise.
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Noah Baumbach’s quirky black and white comedy drama charts the universal struggle that every young adult who’s graduated with a creative arts degree has suffered.
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Director Paul Feig’s follow-up to Bridesmaids reunites with its scene-stealing star Melissa McCarthy for a buddy cop movie starring Sandra Bullock.
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In film-making, it’s not enough to have a theme prevalent in the film. The director has to have a reason for exploring whatever it is they’re depicting on screen. The theme begs a question, and the writer/director must answer it. The director needs a voice, an opinion. If a film shows war and death, so what? We know this happens in the world. What does the director want to say about war and death? This is key, otherwise it’s just navel-gazing.
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Edgar Wright ends his so-called Cornetto trilogy on a sci-fi-tinged apocalyptic note with his old pals Simon Pegg and Nick Frost. Their two previous outings tackled zombies with Shaun of the Dead and cops with Hot Fuzz, and have given fans an idea of what to expect, but The World’s End disappoints by deviating from a winning formula.
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Everything about Pacific Rim on paper tells me I should love this movie. I like mecha anime, I like science-fiction, I like attention to detail, I like new franchises rather than old ones growing stale, I like Idris Elba, I like action set in cities other than New York.
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