<em>The Adjustment Bureau</em>, the new Matt Damon vehicle, is all <em>deus ex machina </em>and not much else.
<i>X-Men: First Class</i> has enough action to keep the fight fans happy, and sufficient use of special effects to beguile the sensation-seeking eye.
<b>Shaun de Waal</b> wonders if he would be able to last through the whole <i>Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides</i>.
One is always amused by the froth of commentary, that breaks out all over the internet whenever a new superhero movie hoves into view.
Science, which usually claims to be morally neutral, could help to compute our moral instincts
Films like this put <b>Shaun de Waal</b> in a state of mind guaranteed only to generate maudlin laments for the decline of Western civilisation.
<b>Shaun de Waal</b> says one does not have to see the opening of <i>Water for Elephants</i> to predict the end.
You need a bit of patience to get on with <i>Somewhere</i>, Sofia Coppola’s latest movie. Or, if not patience, then a relatively relaxed frame of mind
<b>Shaun de Waal</b> says that it is a pleasure to be able to announce that <i>The Eagle</i> is a rather good Roman flick.
Sloth, greed and fear are the drivers of human progress. But Ian Harris’s narrative history raises important questions about what follows.